Floor count not accurate

[raquel54]

Thoughts as to why my Charge 3 floor count is WAY off?

I promise you, there's no way I've done 61 floors any day in my life.  It's been inaccurate since I got it over a year ago, and counting floors was the main reason for going w/ a Charge 3 in the first place over other FitBits.  I wear it in a clip on my waist.

[JohnnyRow]

Why does my Fitbit device count extra floors?

Fitbit devices detect floors with an altimeter, which is a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Your device is designed to detect pressure changes based on elevation gain, but other types of pressure changes—such as a gust of wind, a weather change, or opening a door—can occasionally cause your device to register extra floors. Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet, which is the average between residential and commercial floor heights. If you climb long staircases you may find that the floor count on your device doesn’t match the number of floors you climbed when the staircase is taller than 10 feet.

[raquel54]

So, what I'm hearing is the Floor counter is useless and I should not make that one of my "must haves" if I ever get a new FitBit in the future.  😒

[JohnnyRow]

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@raquel54 wrote:

So, what I'm hearing is the Floor counter is useless and I should not make that one of my "must haves" if I ever get a new FitBit in the future.  😒

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Thoughts vary on that.  I personally don't even display floor count, partly because I don't climb many stairs, but also floors do not affect calorie burn, which is based on heart rate.

  But some people are very concerned about watching stair count.

I have no idea about future products, but right now, the Inspire series are the only ones not including stair count, I believe.

  On days when the floor count is way off, those are often days when weather is changing rapidly, with big change in barometric pressure.

[KFit789]

Coming back to this. Charge 3 floor count is still way way off.

I live in a split-level house, so I do regularly walk up the stairs. One flight of my stairs is only 7 steps, so it takes going up about 1.5 flights of my stairs to register 10 ft of elevation gain.

I've walked up the stairs, at a generous count, 7 times this morning.

My app, synced to my Charge 3, tells me that I've gone up a total of 27 floors so far this morning.

The problem started being a major problem in May of 2020. In 2019, my fitbit recorded an average of 11 floors a day - made total sense with my activity and terrain. Jan 2020 that shot to 20 floors, with no change in activity. Feb was 30. March, 35. April, 45. May, 75. In 2020 it decided I averaged 54 floors a day. So far in 2021, with being even less active, it has determined I've been averaging 82 floors a day.

In other words, the data is not just wrong, the amount of wrongness has been accelerating.