today.adjusted.steps seems to increase by 1000 periodically

[Chuck45]

I might be wrong, but every now and then on my watch face, the today.adjusted.steps get increased by 1000.  i look at the "TODAY" app -- which shows todays stats (steps, etc) & they are exactly 1000 less than what my watch face is reporting.

anyone else see anything like this before?

[WauloK]

Yes. Today I sat at my computer for most of the day and clocked up 40,000+ steps. I'm currently ahead in my Fitbit challenge group of friends, but not really 😉

I think the beta firmware is somewhat buggy 🙂

[Anthoang]

I believe today.adjusted.steps gets the number of steps from the app, where as, 

today.local.steps gets the number of steps directly from the ionic.  Have you tried?

today.local.steps

I was able to display the number of steps in real time using "today.local.steps".  Where as, "today.adjusted.steps" was showing a delay in displaying the current steps. 

[JonFitbit]

local is what the device thinks, adjusted is what the Fitbit servers thinks.

There will be a difference between the two values, the server does additional processing on the raw data.

Is the difference constantly 1000 though?

[Anthoang]

I have noticed using 

today.local.steps

instead of 

today.adjusted.steps

drains the battery a lot faster.  I would think using local would save battery life, but apparently adjusted doesn't take up much battery. 

Using today.local.steps (inside the ontick:seconds) drained 5% of the battery within 30 minutes.  

Using today.adjusted steps (inside the ontick:seconds) drained just 1% of the battery in 1 hour.  But the drawback of using adjusted is I don't see the steps being updated in realtime.  There is a lag to the display of the steps.   Whereas, some of the built-in watchfaces doesn't have this lag. 

[drb116]

I have been using local in my app and have not noticed any difference in battery performance.

[WauloK]

I use today.adjusted steps and it seems to keep up with my steps. I have it display every .5 sec tho...

[Anthoang]

Correction, using today.local.steps will not drain your battery.   But using geolocation in a watchface will drain it fast. 

Thanks  @drb116