Have any of you noticed erratic stairs climbed count in your daily reports? To be honest I never paid attention to this metric in my previous Fenix watches. Some days I barely meet my goal of ten and other days I have a finish count over 40. Most of those occur during a run. I'm just curious if anyone has noticed this on their 5+ or if I have a dud. Thanks,
My Fenix 5 plus also misses to count several stairs climbed per day. :( And that, although the altitude difference exceets 3m.
I noticed, that my watch is ALWAYS refusing to count one particular stair. The stair has a total of 20 steps and changes direction by 180° in the middle. It is a normally closed room with two heave doors that might induce high pressure changes when closed. To me it seems that this signal constellation somehow gets filtered out by the accellerometer + barometer step counter algorithm.
Today my Fenix 5 plus showed 1 stair up and 6 stairs down! In reality it was 3 up and 3 down. WTF!? My iPhone 6 recognized the floors correctly and costs the same with much more features!!! Garmin, get better software developers or pay them more.
I have found that if I put the altimeter widget on and go from sitting down watching tv to going up the stairs that sometimes that altimeter does not change. It seems to get stuck in the barometer lock and obviously getting up and going up the stairs is not unlocking it. Then sometimes it will decide to unlock on my journey down so I gain a stairs descended but not up and my altimeter is low by 10 feet or so because it sensed the down but not the up.
If I turn barometer watch setting to altimeter only then the elevation changes both up and down.
I see the same thing, dxbydy. I have set my watch mode to "Altimeter" rather than "Auto" and get much more accurate results regarding stair climbs throughout the day.
