Indoor cycling not recognised as Intensity Minutes

Emmet are you using a HR Monitor? Intensity minutes are not consistent in accumulating across different activities. I have not tried indoor cycling but on the 935 and Fenix range you don't get intensity minutes from swimming (even with an HRM) so it doesn't surprise me that other activities won't contribute.

Yes, I'm using an HRM (chest strap). I am also providing power measurements through my pedals. In fact, it's exactly the same setup as when I do riding outside, but without the GPS...

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure intensity minutes are calculated on the device and simply reported to Connect and that since the 820 isn't an activity tracker type device it does not calculate this metric. If you have another Garmin device you use as an activity tracker (Forerunner, Fenix, etc) you may want to record your indoor rides on that instead.

Emmet it sounds from your post like you do get intensity minutes when you cycle outside with GPS is that correct?

I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure intensity minutes are calculated on the device and simply reported to Connect and that since the 820 isn't an activity tracker type device it does not calculate this metric. If you have another Garmin device you use as an activity tracker (Forerunner, Fenix, etc) you may want to record your indoor rides on that instead.

As far as I understand from another reply on this topic; that's the case.

"Although you already own an expensive wearable thank you for giving us more money for an expensive cycling unit...now, although this new unit is recording all the required data for us to calculate the 'intensity minutes' feature we've developed, it won't actually contribute them unless you also record the activity with a second 'wearable' device and then go into our platform and enjoy seeing activity duplicated"

Surely when someone at Garmin says that back to themselves they must realise it's bloody stupid and renders the intensity minutes feature utterly redundant for people with multiple Garmin devices, but I don't expect them to change it.

Emmet it sounds from your post like you do get intensity minutes when you cycle outside with GPS is that correct?

Affirmative.

As far as I understand from another reply on this topic; that's the case.

"Although you already own an expensive wearable thank you for giving us more money for an expensive cycling unit...now, although this new unit is recording all the required data for us to calculate the 'intensity minutes' feature we've developed, it won't actually contribute them unless you also record the activity with a second 'wearable' device and then go into our platform and enjoy seeing activity duplicated"

Surely when someone at Garmin says that back to themselves they must realise it's bloody stupid and renders the intensity minutes feature utterly redundant for people with multiple Garmin devices, but I don't expect them to change it.

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I'll give it a go and see what happens.

I have a Fenix 5 as well as the Edge.

Thanks

Emmet if you wear both then I think you should get intensity minutes - which device is designated as your primary activity tracker? The problem that you will have though is a doubling up of the activity and that may give you other issues even if you delete it. I don't understand why the indoor cycling doesn't give you intensity minutes I suggest checking with Garmin support whether they would expect it to - it seems to be arbitrarily switched off for certain activites (swimming as per my earlier comment - although I got 40 intensity minutes from my 25 min swim yesterday - all clocked up after the swim had finished!)

JSRUNNER_ Up to now, I have only used the Edge 820 to record both indoor and outdoor road bike rides ('cos that makes sense to me). The Fenix 5 is used for outside MTB rides. I never use both at the same time.

Anyway, I just tried an experiment and left the Edge 820 off, paired my Fenix 5 to the sensors and did a bike ride indoors.

This time, Connect registered all the minutes of the ride as intensity minutes (unlike when using the Edge 820, when it registers 0 minutes).

This appears to be a bug - I don't see any reason why exercise from any of my devices, when running the default indoor riding profile, shouldn't read as intensity minutes. Since both devices are connect to the same Connect account, this would appear to be simple to correct.

Outdoor Biking Edge 820 = ALL activity minutes registered
Outdoor MTB Fenix 5 = ALL activity minutes registered
Indoor Biking Edge 820 = NO activity minutes registered
Indoor Biking Fenix 5 = ALL activity minutes registered

There are no partial values here, no part readings, it really is binary.

Where do I submit a bug report?? :)

Emmet ok I see what you're saying and it seems totally logical - I haven't used a device for indoor cycling - could you create a new indoor cycle profile based on the outdoor but with GPS turned off - would that get you the intensity minutes?

Anyway to report a bug:

Support Center >> Edge 820 >> Choose a topic >> enter topic keywords, hit enter >> scroll down to the bottom of the page and you should see "Contact us for more help" with a link to email. After you click on the email link you'll see a form below, which will submit a Garmin case number and copy to your email.

I wish you luck but Garmin may say that it's a feature rather than a bug - for example they don't consider it a bug that intensity minutes are not recorded for swimming

This morning I swum for about 30 mins with a HRM - had it been a run with similar HR I would have accumulated 60 intensity minutes - as it is now I got none during the swim but have accumulated 27 after the swim finished! - I can only assume this is the wrist based HRM picking up elevated HR post swim - however that doesn't really make sense as my HR is only significantly raised for about 10 mins after stopping.