Sense counting steps while I am resting

[Anujashukla]

My Fitbit sense is counting steps while I am at bed, how do I get corrected measure for my number of steps in a day.

[Rich_Laue]

How many steps are you referring to @Anujashukla 

[Anujashukla]

It is keep counting steps while I am sleeping as well it is showing me 457 steps from yesterday. I have hardly moved from bed and maximum steps will be 100 only.

[HSS79]

I find its step counting weird, Its counting step with me just swinging my arms.
My wives' 3 year old Samsung Gear tracker is able to differentiate between walking and just swinging arms.

[Rich_Laue]

Yes @HSS79 arm based trackers are only able to look at the motion of the arm. They really do not know what the feet are doing.. They look for arm motions that should happen when the feet are moving. 

Sometimes the arm will move without the feet and extra steps will be recorded. Son engines the feet move without the arms moving and step counting is missed. 

Glad your Samson didn't count arm movements, but looking on the web, this is a complaint with Garmin, Apple, Samsung, etc. 

[SunsetRunner]

I have just contacted customer support about this who said its because I wash my hands with my watch on , which is ridiculous because the watch is marketed as water resistant,  I'm so disappointed,  always been a fitbit customer but think I'll go with the samsung one next time 

[SunsetRunner]

Mine counts steps when traveling in my car or golf cart and my arm is not moving. My brother has an Apple watch and he says it does not do that with it. 

[Rich_Laue]

In a car or golf cart, in relation to the ground, yes your arm is moving. Sometimes I'm an up/down motion. 

When it comes to cars, suspensions have a lot do with it. A soft riding car compared to a jeep? 

BTW yes many apple users do complain about steps in a car. 

[HSS79]

You can try putting the samsung gear on one arm and fitbit on the other to test which is a able to differentiate between arm swing and actual steps better

Also this is how pedometer works, its a specific kind of body movement. https://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-pedometers-work.html

I carried out another test with fit gear fit2 pro and sense, without swinging my arm. Ie held my wrist on my waist. Both detects steps. So I think both are capable at detecting the body swings like a pedometer but sense gets confused with arm swings. 

I'm thinking fitbit can introduce a calibration feature. So, basically user click on calibrate, user the follow instructions to take 20 steps. Software should calibrate accordingly. Im not an engineer but maybe OP watch have an calibration issue or maybe its due to just simple sleep walking?

[westsidekilla1]

Every time your arm swings our moves a certain way the Fitbit counts it as steps. Do don't count on it for accuracy. It's not accurate at all. They even told me that. They said they had an algorithm to try to tell the difference but it wasn't perfect. Go figure.

[HSS79]

@SunsetRunner Best is to not trust explanation on forums. What you can do is try puting on both your bro Apple watch and sense and drive your car. Do the test and lets us know. 

I did walking and swinging arm test with a Samsung gear watch, the result of which makes me think my Fitbit Sense is defective or way too sensitive.

[HSS79]

@westsidekilla1

Probably other watches algorithm is better at filtering out actual step. Seems like their programmers/engineer are better.

I do an exercise for my shoulder by holding on to weight and gently swinging my arm back and forth for a few minutes. These are being counted as steps. I have to remove my watch if I don't wish to count these.