Software 20.00 Altimeter Continuous Auto Calibration

New functionality added to Enduro software ver 20.00:

'Update the altimeter’s auto calibration to be either be “On” or “Nightly”. Setting to “On” will calibrate at night, activity start, and continuously during activities. Setting to “Nightly” will set the device to only calibrate altitude at night.'

What would it mean for the the Enduro when it finally gets continuous Auto Cal.? I've read from multiple sites that people have found issues with contnuous Altimeter calibration on their Fenix 6. Does having the altimeter continuously calibration during activity affect the outcome of total elevation gain? I understand that's more to do with the performance of the Barometer more than the Altimeter ... or perhaps now both?

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0 WhatSteveDid over 3 years ago

I can verify that the auto calibration on the Fenix 6 running 20.00 is absolute junk. I wish I could revert it back to the previous behavior, but you now can't.

0 jan.shim over 3 years ago in reply to WhatSteveDid

Oh that's not good. How did you figure when it was better without the auto calibration and what is no bad with it running? Can you get the previous behavior by not using the feature?

0 iNDEX3 over 3 years ago

I don't live on the ground floor. But now, every night, the automatic calibration brings me down to the ground level.
Garmin, please return the calibration settings to those described in the instructions for the device
support.garmin.com/.../

0 jan.shim over 2 years ago

Came across the appended note:

Update the altimeter’s auto calibration to be either be “On” or “Nightly”. Setting to “On” will calibrate at night, activity start, and continuously during activities. Setting to “Nightly” will set the device to only calibrate altitude at night. (Models without DEM maps will not perform continuous calibration during activities)

Models without DEM maps—what does that even mean? The Enduro can access DEM maps via Bluetooth connectivity to the smart phone, it just means contnuous access to phone's mobile data while retrieving DEM unless that's not what is implied.