Fitbit devices do not count the elevation gains simulated from a stairmaster inclined treadmill or other stationary exercise equipment.
Does fitbit flex 2 count floors.
Does the flex 2 count floors when running outdoors.
Not very accurate but the fitbit flex is the best of the bunch.
Please note that fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
They were around 10 feet.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation.
Climbed up 2 floors and the count showed 8 when it should have shown 9.
Calories burned accuracy verdict.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
And yes i did stop to check the result and wasn t running.
I live in a house which has three floors with two flights of stairs.
It does not count floors accurately and i have been trying to determine when it does and doesn t count.
Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.
Climbed another flight of stairs and check again and the number did not not change.
This is a sensor that measures altitude based on atmospheric pressure.
Fitbit devices detect floors using something called an altimeter.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
Fitbits allegedly measure how many floors you ve climbed using an altimeter which measures when air pressure decreases slightly.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation.
It does not register floors when you go down.
Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
Affects me too.
Fitbit devices don t count floors on stationary exercise.
I have noticed that if i go up the two flights in one continuous trip it will count only one floor.
Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
There s no catch in the stairs.
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Just to knock off that reason as well.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
It was still 8.
The device on your wrist takes these readings to estimate.
My charge hr usually registered 20 floors when i went out for a run.
If i pause after one floor then make the next flight it will count two.
As wtksk8r mentioned your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.