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How to track steps in indoor walking (walking pad)?

3298762 6 months ago

Hello, I have Epix Gen 2 Watch and HRM Pro Strap.

I bought new walking pad and Iam using it while working on PC few hours a day.

I would like to track steps, distance and calories in my Garmin. How can I do that?

I have found activity "Indoor Walking", but I have several problems:

Steps are showing 0
- And steps are not visible in Garmin Connect in activity results
- I have tried some app from Garmin Connect IQ which adds "Steps+" to Garmin Connect summary, but it's still 0
- Even with HRM Pro Strap steps are 0
Distance is showing 0
- I tried to enable my HRM Pro Strap but the cadence and distance are way off, showing almost 2,5 times more than reality
  - For example I walk 2.0 km/h on my walking pad but avg speed measured by HRM Pro Strap is 5.2 km/h
  - When I disabled Distance tracking in sensor settings, distance was again 0

How can I solve those problems? Is there some kind of device I can put on my leg to count distance and steps and sync it with Garmin Connect?

Thank you

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trux 6 months ago in reply to druidh +2

druidh said:
Running Dynamics Pod. It didn't record any steps

RD Pod does not count steps, and is not supposed to. From Garmin's non-watch devices, only HRM-Pro, HRM-Fit, and the discontinued Vivokí…
Adam-1972 6 months ago +1
3298762 said:
I tried to enable my HRM Pro Strap but the cadence and distance are way off, showing almost 2,5 times more than reality
- For example I walk 2.0 km/h on my walking pad but avg speed measured…

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0 trux 6 months ago in reply to druidh

druidh said:
Running Dynamics Pod. It didn't record any steps

RD Pod does not count steps, and is not supposed to. From Garmin's non-watch devices, only HRM-Pro, HRM-Fit, and the discontinued Vivokí count steps.

0 druidh 6 months ago in reply to trux

Yeah, but the annoying thing is that it is actually counting steps - that's how it works out the cadence :-) It would be possible to derive the number of steps by using the cadence data and the distance/time as measured by the treadmill, it's just that there's no way of getting this into Connect.

0 FlowState 6 months ago in reply to druidh

Yeah it's obviously limited by design, not by necessity. Same as the Garmin footpod, HRM-RUN and HRM-TRI all measure cadence but the device won't use them as a source for steps.

I think the HRM-PRO is an exception because Garmin figures everyone has one of their older chest straps, and they wanted to give users a reason to buy the new strap (hence the ability to count steps and other activity tracking data while the watch is being worn).

But even HRM-PRO won't be used for steps while you're wearing the watch.