Please improve non-activity heart rate tracking.Fenix 7X Solar

Still no news on the consideration of the problem??!!

Hello everyone, I came across a video on the Huawei GT3 Pro regarding heart rate tracking. Garmin can add the same option please. Give the consumer the choice.

Don't want to continue a discussion that ended 10 days ago but the smart/every second recording is valid also for the heart rate.

You can try to start an indoor activity and you will see that if your heart rate doesn't change for a few seconds you will not have the data every second for that short period.

For people that are using the below type of graph and thinking that the HR is not recorded continuously, well keep in mind that the graph is showing only the average value during those 2 minutes. The data are collected continuously but not shown on the graph.
That's why when you do an activity and you reach 180bpm(random value) for a few seconds, you will not see it on the general daily graph but only within the activity summary.

As i did in the Epix' forum...i'll leave also here the 2 videos that i recorded about the HR measurements, that i find accurate also outside of activities.
Keep in mind that the heart itself is not reacting immediately to our actions + the optical sensor has its own delay because the values that it's giving are based on the blood flow on the back of the wrist.
Keeping the watch too tight can, negatively, affect the readings because the blood flow is getting obstructed.

I know that many are aware of it but it's better to specify that the heart rate shown on AOD watchfaces is not refreshed every second. The majority of AOD watchfaces refresh the value every 60 seconds. Some new stock watchfaces that arrived with the last update are refreshing the value more frequently when bpm changes +-10/15 bpm + every 60 seconds. On Venu 2(not sure about other models as i didn't have them) the refresh is every second also on some AOD stock watchfaces.

Here the videos:

https://youtu.be/K1f_Ud9R8j0

https://youtu.be/kLH3XnYQRVM 

EDIT.

If you have a lot longer delays than in my videos i would say:

1)be sure that you're wearing the watch in an optimal way. The watch should not move up and down on the wrist but not be too tight as said before. When i do an activity i tighten it by one hole, normally, but it's still comfortable to wear.
2)clean the sensor after activities
3)Looks like a soft reset(long press on the top left button until the watch turns off)is recommended for many reasons from time to time. Personally, i'm not doing it but it could help.

Mladen T said:

As i did in the Epix' forum...i'll leave also here the 2 videos that i recorded about the HR measurements, that i find accurate also outside of activities.

It should be noted here that launching the HR widget wakes the sensor from power-saving mode and puts it into active mode. You can see that this is the case when the green LEDs switch from flickering (24/7 mode) to continuous illumination. This means that calling up the HR widget is not the same as being in "out of activity" mode.

I know that...that's why there is also the second video.

In any case, the switch between the 2 modes is not based only on activity/not activity...it's based also on the simple things that we are doing...if you start to move for a while the green light will change from blinking to solid.

This is how it should be. Absolutely right.

Can't say anything about accuracy and i'm not expecting that the recording "every second" or "smart" affects the accuracy of the activity.

It was used in past to have fewer points recorded and to save space but the space is not anymore a problem considering that .fit files are pretty light for the actual technologies.

The only thing that i expect to be different is how the data is presented on the graph but any change should be recorded(at the end the definition of "smart recording" is "recording points whenever pace/heart rate/direction/whatever changes)...it's like the data are measured every second but not recorded point by point if there's no change and an HR that doesn't change for 60 seconds(exaggerating to make it simpler) instead of showing a flat line with 60 points recorded...will be just a single point that says "your HR from minute 2:30 to 3:30 was this).

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8908842581 (every second)

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8908857581 (smart)

I see t mostly when using my Edge 530 and chest strap, my HR on the 530 will be something like 130+BPM and my watch will be sat there saying 53bpm.

Start broadcasting my Fenix HR and the numbers shoot up and closely match the chest strap. Very annoying.

Hi! That's my problem too on Fenix 7 Saph.sol. On my last instinct watch there wasn't present this lag and on this watch that's 2x more expensive there is. I hope there will be a firmware update o resolve this..