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Steps in Walk activity statistics

9401813
3 months ago

Hi.

I try to do a morning walk-activity every morning.

I know every step is counted, because I can follow them on my Fenix 7 - but as I press stop-activity they are "gone", and I cannot find them in the Garmin Connect App or Web.


Does someone know if it is possible to get steps shown in the Garmin Connect statistics, and why are Garmin not willing to put that info in the app?
I have seen posts that are over 7 years about this issue, and not yet "solved".

I would say that steps are very directly involved in an activity called "WALK"!

I have the data field "Steps" on my watch, and I can see/calculate the steps from the summary screen - but I can NOT see the steps in the activity - I can find speed, awg. steps, cadence and so on, but NOT the actual steps.

Btw. I can see the total steps for that specific activity in Strava (so the data is recorded and stored by Garmin Connect) - but not in "Strava Splits".

Come on Garmin, RELEASE MY DATA, or explain why not.

Tia
-Kurt

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to 9401813
    9401813 said:
    txActivitySteps Distance and Garmin Distance do not agree on the distance I walked - is where a reason for that?

    The distance estimation of TxActivitySteps works in similar way like the daily distance estimation on the Steps page overview - it is based on the average stride length, just it is a little bit more flexible, because you can adjust the parameters in a finer way, and it can also use an algorithm less aggressively adjusting the stride by acceleration. It purpose is especially giving you a more realistic distance estimate at indoor activities, or at sports such as tennis, football, volleyball where the GPS does not work that well, or at outdoor activities with weak GPS signal. However, for getting accurate estimate, you may need to tune the parameters, and/or letting it learn your stride patterns.

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to trux
    trux said:
    and/or letting it learn your stride patterns.

    So, if I do nothing, the distance will be more accurate over time?

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to 9401813

    In the default configuration (Custom Stride Length in its settings not assigned), the app uses the running or walking average stride length learned from previous runs or walks (not the same thing as the Custom Stride Length in the User Profile settings), and it can be set adaptive (stride length varying with speed) or constant. Whether the estimate will be more accurate depends on many factors - besides the parameters, it also depends on the mixture of activities you do, on the variability of the stride and pace, on the terrain, etc.

    For outdoor activities using GPS (and having a fair quality of signal) it can barely be  more accurate than the GPS. Originally, it was added to help users who often got zero distance at indoor sports as well as at some outdoor games. 

  • 0 3 months ago in reply to trux

    OK, for now I will do nothing, and rely on the GPS (Garmin distance?) as my route is in a well GPS-covered area.