Intensity minutes when passively worn

Thanks, I found it, I was looking in the general settings and not under the device.

Yes, I see both activities in the HR graph.

I was using a Garmin Dual HR strap, HR seemed fine. I wasn’t sure if the fenix 6 would use the strap or WHR when just passively sitting there. At the end of my ride I  disconnected the HR transmitter from the strap and HR stopped being reported on BOTH the 530 and f6 at the same time, so I assume they were both using the chest strap.

This IM issue has been intermittent over the last 3 weeks and fine before that, so I’m wondering if something in the Beta has messed it up. 

I’ll try the HR zone instead of Auto, but I might also update to the latest Beta and see what happens. 

Do you use the Automatic or HR Zone setting and if HR, do you jse Z2/Z3 or the default Z3/Z4?

Something else I just noticed when looking through the settings in GCM/f6 is that Move iQ was turned off (I’m sure it was on) but I WAS getting the grey activity icon on the timeline which suggests it was working even though set to off, unless that setting refers to something else, but the description/help seems to match up.

My intensity minutes are set to automatic. I do not use Move IQ as I find it unreliable and have disabled it.  I record my (dog) walks and anything more strenuous (cycling/ running/ hiking)  as activities. My HR zones are based on max HR of 195.

hmm, that's odd that the F6 would pick up the Dual when NOT in an activity.

As an experiment, you may want to turn off the Dual sensor on the F6 when trying this tomorrow.

I haven’t tried another activity yet, however at one point during the ride I did open the HR widget on the fenix to look at “live” HR data rather than the 60 second update on the watch face, I still was not recording an activity, but wonder if that action connected it to the HR strap.

I just did a little test.

I put my HR strap on, put my watch on and turned the watch on. Sat for a while and then disconnected the HR strap transmitter and the fenix continued to show HR data. I then reconnected the HR transmitter and opened up the HR widget on the watch. Went back to the home watch face and disconnected the transmitter again, this time, the HR dropped out. So it seems that opening the widget forces the HR to read from the strap if it’s available.

By the way, I mentioned above about the 60 second update for HR data, that is of course incorrect, it’s the step count that updates every 60 seconds, I confused myself with the HR data as there seemed to be a lag between what the Edge was showing and what the fenix was with WHR. After opening the widget it seems that the fenix then synced off the HR strap and they were in line with each other.

Okaaaay, so I have an idea of what “might” be going on.

I don’t wear my fenix 24/7, I don’t usually sleep with it at all and in fact while I’m working from home, I don’t often put it on just for being around the house.

I think, that because Intensity Minutes when set to Automatic bases effort on Average Resting HR, if I put the watch on and go and exercise that my resting HR is interpreted as being very high or isn’t even calculated, so perhaps the activity effort would need to be Extremely high in order to register. Not sure, but that’s my working theory anyway,

Today I wore the watch most of the day, went and did the same ride and got an hours worth of IM.