Help: Calorie Counting.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

Simone85 — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:57:48 GMT

Yes, exactly. But I've found a possible workaround: start a "Bike" activity on Edge and a "Cardio" activity on the FR.
I personally use HRM Dual as my Heart Rate Monitor but you can broadcast HR from FR if you prefer.
At the end of your workout save the Bike activity recorded with Edge and discard the Cardio one recorded with FR.

That's enough for your watch to consider burned calories in your daily count.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

stavpal — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 13:48:25 GMT

Still the same issue on Forerunner 965 and ride recorded on Edge 540 (latest stable firmware). Edge shows (correct) calories based on powermeter but Forerunner and Garmin Connect show calories calculated from watch HR.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

kouzman — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:12:33 GMT

Correct. But it is off. Seeing it now the day after it underreported the day by about 1000 calories.

Hopefully garmin fixes this issue soon.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

Adam-1972 — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 08:42:23 GMT

Check in activity how much was active calories you've burned this activity.
In general summary GC show calories in total but in details you will see these calories divided for active and passive.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

kouzman — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 01:49:13 GMT

Bringing this up. Same issue today with my brand new edge 1050, my fenix 6x and the app. I completed 100 mile ride where the activity recorded 4000 calories total and for my whole day calories are showing way less. On an average rest day according to my fenix I average about 2400 calories so the total for the day I would expect to see about 6400 calories or so but it seems I will end up with about 700 calories less...

Had the same issue with my 1040. I always use a garmin hrm pro and power for my bikes, usually sram quarq power meters...

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

Simone85 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:50 GMT

It seems that this issue is still valid... I have a FR 255 (se as my PTD) and an Edge 840 and Calories from this one are not counted into the global calories count made by FR.
Also I do have suspect that other metrics (such as Body Battery, Stress, HR, etc) are not properly merged but I am not 100% sure.

@Garmin: do you have any plan to fix it? Thanks!

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 16:11:10 GMT

Anyone with some better feedback after last update`? Beta any good?

Mine is about 50% with with Calories sp working about every second ride.

Body Battery never works tough...

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

bashey_pl — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 08:06:56 GMT

Same here. I`ve got Venu 2 Plus and last week i bought 840. And calories from 840 doesn`t count only from Venu. I`ve got 130 Plus and calories count correct from 130 Plus.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 18:02:01 GMT

Back AGAIN, great work Garmin.... After a long time with calories working as it should, today back to not working again.

+ Body Battery still messed up and give high stress and workout not added to factors....

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

Sace — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 19:13:59 GMT

Well, tested again today and no luck. Forerunner 955 completely ignores my workout data. I did get an update to the edge computer after my ride but the release note does not indicate major changes.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:54:40 GMT

Looks like a fix now?

Fourth day in a row now and calories sync fine and also today something with Body Battery, Stress etc.. No HR on my Fenix 7x during ride and no High Stress, but also workout not added to factors in BB.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

star314 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:04:43 GMT

Same here, it worked for a couple of days. But yesterday, it did not work again.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

RedBeard — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:51:21 GMT

I have done 2 rides with the 840 since the update.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:46:26 GMT

How many times have you tried?

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

RedBeard — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:33:49 GMT

The latest update to my Edge 840 seems to have corrected this issue.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:31:06 GMT

So maybe again just luck or is Garmin trying hard now?

I had 3 days in a row all working good, and then one off and now one good again... Anyone else?

(Calories,, but not Body Battery)

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 18:51:12 GMT

So lets hope there is a fix now... I am now on my third day in row and its working (without any workarounds, F7x on my wrist and Edge 840)...

Will keep you Posted....

PS: I still get high stress on my Fenix7x instead of adding the workout so Body Battery is screwed up tough..!!!

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

lifeguardm — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 02:17:58 GMT

Issue persists between Epix gen2 and Edge 840. Indoor bike training has huge discrepancy between calories and heart rate, Edge data is not being prioritized when it was recording the activity. Could we at least get a toggle to choose which data set to use for a time period if Garmin doesn't want to fix it by selecting the more accurate data?

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:53:14 GMT

Looks like it’s just random or pure luck for me.

i was so tired of all workarounds so I gave it a go after last update (4.days ago) and it worked 100%. I had the watch on my hand not recording and recording with edge840 as normal. All ok, but last three rides after that not working anymore, BUT today it was all fine again so I don’t know…

body battery is still High Stress on my F7x tough!!!

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

cscandura — Thu, 23 May 2024 12:41:49 GMT

As a follow up to my previous workaround, I wanted to share that I have been keeping the watch at home and the issue has not showed so far (10s of rides). However, I did try a couple of times to keep the watch on whilst turning off the BT connection to the phone and the issue did appear. I believe that not matter the state of the BT connection. when the watch is on the wrist it keeps recording data (e.g. HR). So, when the connection is re-established, Garmin may still need to reconcile data from multiple devices. On the other hand, when the phone is left inactive the sensors probably go in a stand by mode (i.e. the HR leds go off), so it only relies on default metrics such as the estimate on resting metabolic rate.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

rbmx — Sun, 19 May 2024 10:57:40 GMT

Looks like there is a fix now? My Fenix7x got an update yesterday so I gave it a go today recording only with my Edge 840 and F7 on my wrist (not recording). Last year I have double recorded all sessions.

-Calories seems ok

-Intensity minutes ok

-Traning status etc syncing ok

-Body Battery not OK, Edge gives F7 and connect high stress instead of adding the of the workout (look

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

JaniV — Thu, 16 May 2024 17:28:29 GMT

Actually now it seems to work if i do following with belt, edge and watch connected to phone via bluetooth.

1. Sync all three devices before ride, leave watch home

2. Ride

3. Don't save the ride when you end

4. Wait to be with your watch again

5. Open garmin connect, let watch sync and hrm plus

6. Save ride on edge

7. Wait for ride to be uploaded

8. Wait all three devices to sync

9. Eventually active calories are nicely set up (at least seems so after 5 rides)

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

JaniV — Sat, 11 May 2024 16:47:07 GMT

Still issues, same as last summer with Edge 840. I even upgraded my watch from Fenix 6 pro to Epix Pro (gen. 2) and was hoping this would solve the calorie counting issue. Still same..

Most of the times when doing power meter ride with Edge 840 and HRM Pro plus (belt not connected / or connected to phone) calories are off. I've tried both syncing first the Edge then the watch. Leaving watch off and sync edge, and not saving the ride and wait to be indoors and first sync watch then edge. Nothing helps. I assume that this has something to do with power data even both devices should support it..

"Quite" frustrating as all the "recovery" etc. fancy sounding metrics are just useless. And both devices are high end ones. Similar results with all bikes with different power meters.

Please Garmin, this is production bug with multiple devices and lot's of users / customers affected. If you care about company profit, you should take this seriously. Soon you'll gradually see heavy users going away and most likely casual users following soon after...

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

cscandura — Mon, 06 May 2024 10:20:11 GMT

Thanks! I was missing that option from the control menu. Added it now! Let me know how this works out for you.

RE: Help: Calorie Counting.

RedBeard — Mon, 06 May 2024 10:15:51 GMT

You can definitely turn off Bluetooth on the Instinct 2

www8.garmin.com/.../GUID-139CD52F-B25F-4002-B13D-ACF7FEA70A04.html