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How to avoid duplicate activities from 2 devices

I use a Garmin Edge 810 on my bike to track my cycling activity. I want to get a garmin vivoactive for tracking other activities.
I am concerned that if I have both devices I will have duplicate entries for cycling in Garmin connect.

How can I avoid duplicate entries for cycling?
Is there a way to tell the vivoactive to not track cycling?

0 jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

I use a Garmin Edge 810 on my bike to track my cycling activity. I want to get a garmin vivoactive for tracking other activities.
I am concerned that if I have both devices I will have duplicate entries for cycling in Garmin connect.

How can I avoid duplicate entries for cycling?
Is there a way to tell the vivoactive to not track cycling?

All you have to do is not start the cycling app on the vivoactive. That way the va won't try to track your ride.

0 scottmeup over 9 years ago

Do you know if doing that give the "3,000,000 steps a day" bug I've been reading about?

0 pshare over 9 years ago

A few people have posted that the 3 million steps bug was fixed for them. I haven't noticed any posts about it for a few weeks. If I recall correctly, that the issue seemed only to be with the vivosmart.

In any event, it shouldn't affect you if you use the Edge anyway.

0 scottmeup over 9 years ago

Ah, I thought people were saying it was caused by wearing a device that does step tracking while cycling with an edge. I'm probably mistaken.

0 pshare over 9 years ago

Actually, it was with the Garmin cadence / speed sensor.

0 scottmeup over 9 years ago

Step tracker + cadence sensor was proven to be the problem then?

0 pshare over 9 years ago

It was the cadence sensor and, I believe, only the vivosmart.