Activity Elevation

Good morning,

Does anyone know the source of the Elevation in the connect IQ activity summary? Or is this an internal Garmin mystery?

Is there a way to manually force this to use GPS or Baro ?

In general, if the device has a baro, it will use that. On devices without a baro. it's GPS. GPS isn't that great for this in general.

In the web based Garmin Connect, you'll see this in a full screen activity:

It's enabled by default for devices without a baro, and I've seen it make a big fiffernce in that non-baro devices get much closer to "real"

Here's what you see with the ? above:

0 Nick over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks, I actually did some testing in an open field, and this is what I found. Both altitudes ( the Baro and the GPS height ) seem to move around by themselves randomly. If I move the watch, the baro takes 3 seconds to start reacting and about 7 seconds to display accurately again. This means a rapid movement up and down, is not actually registered at all in the raw baro pressure. ( Under say 3 seconds . The GPS, I could not even get the reading to change at all. It seemed stabler than the Baro, but moving the watch up 2 meters or down 2 meters made absolutely no difference to the height reading.

For my use case, unfortunately that is pretty useless, at best could be a trigger. Interesting that the GPS was stable, but I couldn't seem to get it to change.