Fitbit Records Too Many Floors

Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.

Fitbit records too many floors. If the number of floors counted is significantly off please reply to me so i can determine which steps should we take next. The past three days it s registered waaaay too many floors all of a sudden. Use your tracker for a few days and let me know if still tracking extra floors. Keep in mind that your charge 2 records a floor climbed every time it detects an elevation gain of 10 feet combined with constant motion and does not count floors descended.

Of course the app shows too many floors because it gets its data from the tracker which is wildly miscounting floors. By any chance have you left the tracker close to a fan. Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that detects when you go up in elevation. Pressure changes due to things like weather or gusts of wind may record floors.

I believe the fitbit tracker uses an altimeter to determine floors by barometric pressure. Though your tracker is designed to look for pressure changes based on elevation gains pressure changes due to other causes such as a gust of wind a weather change or opening a door can occasionally cause your tracker to. Tap set up a device. Part of fitbit s community system are badges you can achieve by hitting some milestones.

The reason i m asking this is because the altimeter that the trackers that count floors have i s a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure. It s inner altimeter will calculate altitude based on atmospheric pressure. Too many floors recorded. Whenever there is a storm brewing my fitbit seems to claim more floors.

Your charge 2 is counting too many floors. I tested it out and sure enough that. Once you reach the top of both flights of stairs stop to look at the number counted. Put on your tracker and check the number of floors before you begin to walk.

Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors. It also has to make an assumption about how many feet a floor is so it s possible that the actual distance between your floors differ which could also throw off the numbers. From the fitbit app dashboard tap or click the account icon. It s been known to generate extra floors when there are air currents.

In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors. I just received the following insanely unhelpful response. Too many floors recorded. Choose your device and follow the on screen instructions to continue.

This is the story of how i managed to climb 700 floors without actually climbing 700 floors earning the. Heydy community moderator fitbit. Today it said 39 when i know it s only been 7 i ve seen the posts regarding barometric press. Walk up the 2 flights in a row trying not to stop at any point.

I measured my stride to set it up and i ve been impressed with how accurate it s been.