ActivityInfo.Calories question

The docs say ActivityInfo.Calories returns

"Calories burned so far for the day in kCal"

A user reports

"Hi. I am confused about the calories displayed. As I write their Big Time says I have burned 28729 kc which I assume is Kilocalories. Clearly I have not burned this amount of calories and the Activity tracker says 2872Cal which sounds more realist.
I think Kcal and Cal are the same so don't understand their. I noticed it's also the same on Fringe watch face."

In my code I'm doing

Units = activityInfo.calories.toString();

then displaying it.

Any ideas why there is a difference between 28729 from the ActivityInfo.Calories and the Activity Tracker? Seems like it might be a decimal point issue.

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

It's correct that 1 kcal = 1 Cal (food calorie), so I agree that what this user is seeing is unusually high. Is this something you are able to reproduce, or have you received any other reports of this issue from any other individuals? I did some quick testing here, and the values I'm getting from the Activity module seem reasonable.

It is odd that they're seeing different values vs. the built-in activity tracker. Do you happen to know which device they're using?

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

Hi,

thanks for replying. I think this was a weird one off.

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

Yeah, it sounded like that was the case, but I don't want to assume. :) I typically like to take the "guilty until proven innocent" stance when it comes to potential bugs. Let me know if your see anything else related to this or if you receive more reports from this individual.