Versa Counting too many floors

[Pat-Pat]

So yesterday my versa started counting more floors than I know that I’ve climbed. The most floors I’d walk in a day is 15 to 20. Yesterday I got 450 floors recorded on my dashboard and today I have  so far recorded 55 floors and I can confirm that I’ve only done 2 floors. I’ve restarted my versa twice, and reinstalled it to my fitbit app once and it’s still counting floors that I haven’t walked. 53 of the floors that my versa has counted so far have been counted while walking on one floor, no altitude change at all up or down.

Anybody have any ideas, btw my versa is only a month old and I bought it brand new.

[Julia_G]

Hi, @Pat-Pat , the altimeter in the Versa has to be sensitive enough to detect a change in air pressure from only a 10 foot rise.  This means it can count stairs you climb.  

Unfortunately, its sensitivity also means that changes in air pressure (often due to weather) means that it can interpret atmospheric changes as floors climbed.

You will probably notice that when a storm is brewing your Versa counts extra stairs -- sometimes, unfortunately, many extra flights of stairs (as it seems you have found).

Even the wind created by a door suddenly slamming, and definitely the wind in a tunnel from standing on the platform in an underground tunnel (subway/tube) will trigger a stair count.

I find that I take this particular stat with a grain of salt.  When the weather is settled and fine, it works extremely well, and I am always impressed.  When the weather is changeable, however, I know that I usually need to ignore that stat.

Cold dies not affect it, but wind/ changes in barometric pressure definitely does...

Sorry not to have a better solution for you.  You might like to know that because Fitbit is aware that the floor count is not the most reliable metric, it does not use this in any way when it calculates calories burned.

I hope this helps with providing an explanation for what you are seeing.  Welcome to the forums!

[Pat-Pat]

That’s a very interesting point and I think that there might be something to that, the weather here in Ottawa has been very rainy and changeable lately and I bet the air pressure has changed for that reason. I’ll just wait it out and when the weather is more “regular” hopefully it goes back to normal😀

thanks for the reply!

Pat