Intensity Minutes: Cycling doesn't count anymore?

Have recently updated my watch to the Vivoactive 5 and noticed that Garmin Connect no longer counts cycling activities -- recorded on a 530 -- as intensity minutes. With my previous Vivoactive 3, Connect appeared to seamlessly merge intensity minutes from both the 530 cycling activites and workouts recorded with the watch.

Is this a configuration setting that 'fell off' with the watch upgrade? Or has the concept of intensity minutes been altered?

0 trux 16 hours ago

Activities do not matter for Intensity Minutes. What counts is the ratio of the current heart rate to the 7 days average HR measured by the watch (Edge 530 does not support the feature of Intensity Minutes).

0 8954262 16 hours ago in reply to trux

Thought it was defined as zone 3 and zone 4 heart rate. I had an intensity minute goal that I would usually hit every week largely from cycling activities (with significant durations of zone 3 and 4 effort).

What's worse is the vivo 5 doesn't accurately record heart rate when I wear it during a ride. It's regularly 30% lower than the heart rate recorded by the chest strap. So even if intensity minutes is simply a function of sustained zone 3 and 4, the vivo 5 is useless at recording it.

Not happy about this purchase at all unless there's a setting somewhere that I can flip to change it.

0 trux 16 hours ago in reply to 8954262

8954262 said:
It's regularly 30% lower than the heart rate recorded by the chest strap.

Connect the strap to it too, and start an activity on the watch (otherwise it won't use the strap). At the end you can discard the activity, if you want to avoid the duplicate.

0 8954262 11 hours ago in reply to trux

Which underscores my point that the vivo 5 is not an upgrade if it forces me to babysit it to record the same data I got with the vivo 3. Wanna buy a slightly used vivo 5?