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Add stair count to Stair Stepper activity

This seems pretty obvious but the Garmin Stair Stepper activity doesn't allow the entry of the number of stairs or floors you ascended. It would seem that any Garmin watch that counts steps could convert the steps to stair steps and get an approximation of the number of stairs and vertical rise a session had. This information should then go into your daily floors climbed number. Outside of it automatically doing it, it would seem to make sense to allow manual entry of the information.

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trux 9 months ago in reply to BartonWalker +1

BartonWalker said:
The activity on GC has no data field for number of steps (or for cadence).

You can add steps to the activity with a simple free Data Field Connect IQ app. There are a number of them in…

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0 BartonWalker 9 months ago

The app counts steps on my watch but they are not shown on Garmin Connect. Number of steps is the most obvious data from a stair stepper machine. Seems odd not to have them.

0 trux 9 months ago in reply to BartonWalker

If steps are shown on the watch, and not on Garmin Connect, then either there is no connection between those two, or the syncing failed, or there is a problem with the account-watch alignement. First of all, restart both the watch and the phone and sync again. If no change, try syncing over the USB cable to a computer with Garmin Express.

If it does not help, I recommend to Remove and Add a Device From the Garmin Connect App | Garmin Customer Support, then log a few minutes of steps and HR, and record a test activity, sync, and see whether it helped. If not, then have a look at the Troubleshooting guide for (some) data missing after syncing for more tips.

0 BartonWalker 9 months ago in reply to trux

It syncs. It shows the stair stepper activity. The activity shows duration and heart rate. The activity on GC has no data field for number of steps (or for cadence).
It’s a stepping activity. It should show the number of steps. The steps taken are included in the daily total so clearly have been recorded and synced. They are shown being recorded on the watch data field during the activity.
This is something Garmin needs to resolve rather than me troubleshoot.

0 trux 9 months ago in reply to BartonWalker

BartonWalker said:
The activity on GC has no data field for number of steps (or for cadence).

You can add steps to the activity with a simple free Data Field Connect IQ app. There are a number of them in the webstore at Connect IQ Store | Search Activity Steps | Garmin (including my own app)

0 BartonWalker 9 months ago in reply to trux

The app on the watch already has the data field.
The activity on Garmin Connect does not.

0 trux 9 months ago in reply to BartonWalker

That's exactly what the Connect IQ app does - it stores the number of steps done during the activity, and shows them then in Garmin Connect.