Counting steps while driving

[Jbabjnsack]

I have been having a terrible time trying to get my Fitbit verse to not count my steps while I drive. Some days I do a lot of walking during work so I want to be able to get an idea of my steps taken but I can not seem to stop counting driving as steps. Right now my only solution is physically then the Fitbit off and in every time I get in and out of the car which is quite a hassle time after time.

i have tried logging my driving which I don’t really like having to do that every time, but it doesn’t seem to deduct my steps anyway. I like the idea of the drive it app however I have been using it and it still counts my steps. 

I tested ut again this morning and I had 113 steps when I got in the car, I started the drive app and when I got to work 47 minutes later I had over 1000 steps. 

Even in the Fitbit app it created a driving activity but it says +0 of 1000 steps so I can’t even do the math manually to get my accurate count. 

Help please?

[Rich_Laue]

When adding Driving, are you tapping on the word during in the drop down menu? 

There are drivebit and travelbit apps that will do this automatically .

[Jbabjnsack]

Yea I add the driving under the exercise and I set the start time and the duration and then it shows up on my list for the day and everything but it doesn’t deduct any steps and when I view the activity it says 0+ steps of my total. 

I downloaded the app DriveBit and synced it with my Fitbit account then this morning right before I left for work I opened it and started it but once I arrived and I opened it again and stopped it it still added about 1000 steps to my step count. Then it did the same thing, it added a ‘driving’ event to my exercise section but it once again said 0+ steps of my total. I even restarted my Fitbit but it still did not deduct the steps or change the ‘0+ steps of total’

[Rich_Laue]

During the driving event it says that you did 0 steps of the days total. Why do you say the steps have not been removed .

What does the days total steps look like on https://www.fitbit.com/activities

If the driving event is removed. does the daily step count change .

[Jbabjnsack]

No this is what it says. Obviously I just took this screen shot now which is why I have so many steps but this was my drive from this morning. 

After having the the drivebit app running for 47 minutes my steps jumped from 113 to over 1000 and it said this (but the 10000 steps was only like 1000 but you get the point

[Rich_Laue]

Your drive record should not be showing a step count .

This is what the days impact should show 

To me it looks like your manually creating a new type of event, rather than using the premade driving. 

Try tapping the word driving that pops up. 

[Jbabjnsack]

But the step count says 0 steps.

Regardless that’s not even the issue. The issue is that I put it in synced then put it in drive mode after I was sitting in my car then drove for 47 minutes then I took it out of drive mode before I even got out if my car and the moment I took it out of drive mode and synced again my step count was up by 1000 steps

[Rich_Laue]

 As for as I'm aware of the Versa does not have a drive mode. I'm not sure where this drive mode you used is. 

The issue I see is that a driving event will only show the calories burnt slurring this time. There is no step count displayed in the app or the web. That fact that you see a step count when manually adding a driving record has me confused .

I'm a little curious as to what happens to the daily step count when a driving log is removed. 

When iIadd a driving record all steps durringsthis time are removed and the step total for the day drops. A sync then updates the tracker. When the record is remived, the steps return, and a sync will then update the tracker go match. 

[WoodieHouse]

I am a professional driver. Bumpy work van=thousands of steps. I downloaded an app called TravelBit. You can put a widget on your phone's home screen to start/stop the driving. It will then automatically deduct the steps when you sync. I paid the $2.99 for the Premium Version and it has a AUTO DETECT mode you can set so you don't have to use the widget at all if you won't want to. The auto detect also has sensitivity settings. Note: all your driving is saved to a queue. So when you click on the three lines in the upper left corner, hit "view queue" and then hit "sync with fitbit: in the lower right corner. I have to do this manually because I don't run around with phone gps on all day. Without this app, a fitbit would be useless to me.

There's another app called DriveBit. I used that briefly until I found TravelBit with the auto detect mode.

[Jbabjnsack]

Yea i know the  versa does not have a driving mode. I’m taking about unused ‘drivebit’, like I said and it still added 1000 steps to my total step count  in the time that drivebit is running. This is what I was trying to find a solution to..

[Jbabjnsack]

******i used drivebit