Fitbit accuracy for floor tracking.
Fitbit not accurately counting floors.
Every fitbit device i have owned that tracks stairs has not been terribly accurate.
This is the most ridiculous things i ve ever heard for counting floors.
When your fitbit shows a four digit code enter it into the app.
Regarding your question your fitbit tracker doesn t count actual stairs.
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My staircase certainly goes up more than 10 feet but there is a ending in the middle of it.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation.
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The fitbit most accurately estimated the energy expenditure of golfing.
The same can happen when you turn the shower on.
So back to flex 2 which does not even pretend to do floors.
My floors havbe an 11 foot threshold.
Now that you ve set up your personal profile and paired your fitbit to your phone the syncing process should.
Because the device looks for continuous motion pausing when you go up a flight of stairs can cause the device to not count the floor.
Not a big issue for me.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
Why won t my fitbit sync.
Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.
Calories burned accuracy verdict.
It is annoying to get 1 or 2 climbs when i have done 12 to 20 in a day.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
Yet fitbit is not trying to fix this issue rather just give this explanation over over again.
Not very accurate but the fitbit flex is the best of the bunch.
This will count as one floor.
So whenever you check out your fitbit stats just know that the listed number of calories burned is probably lower than what you really burned.
Devices may track floors while doing everyday tasks such as opening doors driving or riding elevators or escalators or from abrupt weather and atmospheric.
What is important to keep in mind is that it is not the elevation itself that causes the floors to be counted it is the changes in air pressure.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
I think the versa interprets that i have stopped climbing when i negotiate the landing so not 10 feet and no stair count.
For example closing the door of a car or opening it can cause a slight change in air pressure that the fitbit could mistake for a floor climbed.
