Polar Verity Sensor connection to Fenix 7 problem

I connected polar verity sense to my Fenix 7

once I train the connection is stable and correct HR is displayed on my watch

but when I don't train and I'm just sitting, my watch is not on my wrist - but I wear the band with the polar verity sensor on - the connection brakes, Fenix 7 is not displaying HR at all , and when I go to settings - the status = not connected (external sensor) - then I wait couple of seconds and it changes automatically to connected - and then the HR is displayed properley on my Fenix for couple of seconds and it disconnects again...

any idea what why the connection brakes and goes into the disconnected mode when I don't have any training turned on ? and then why does it automatically turn on when I go to the settings - external sensors - connection status and it everything comes back to normal for couple of seconds to disconnect again?

and HR sensor is set to AUTO ..

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0 gaijin over 1 year ago

Your external HR sensor (Polar Verity Sense) will only connect to your watch under two circumstances:

1. You are viewing the status of external sensors

2. You have started an Activity

If you have the Polar VS on, Main Watch Face being displayed on the watch, but no Activity running, the HR from the VS will not be displayed on the watch.

If you want to see HR displayed on your watch when your watch is not on your wrist, you will need to set up and start an Activity with your VS on.

TL;DR: Your watch is behaving exactly as designed.

HTH

0 7887029 over 1 year ago in reply to gaijin

Thank you for the explaination Morihei, so you say it's normal... I thought It was something wrong with my watch settings.. Thanks!

+1 7887029 over 1 year ago in reply to gaijin

One more question, do garmin exteranl sensors work the same way?

0 AgentMax over 1 year ago in reply to 7887029

Yes.

0 7887029 over 1 year ago in reply to AgentMax

Thank you!

0 EliotB over 1 year ago in reply to gaijin

Once an activity is started the status of the ”Verity Sense” is ”Precision mx activé”.

And the status of my buetooth earbuds Q38 is also ”Precision mx activé”.

May I know what it means ? Thanks.

0 AgentMax over 1 year ago in reply to EliotB

Change language to English and see what message is shown.

0 EliotB over 1 year ago in reply to AgentMax

Now in English as you asked.

I get: ”Max accuracy enabl...”

But what is bothering me à lot is that when I remove the Fenix from my wrist (and the VeritySense still connected) the HR indication disappears from the screen.

0 AgentMax over 1 year ago in reply to EliotB

I have never seen this "max accuracy enabled". But I only do use non optical HR sensors.

But if the watch is using the Polar as HR sensor you should still have a HR

reading with the watch removed from your wrist.

What I am a bit confused of:

On your first picture (with 2 different pictures) above, you are showing

two different sensors with 2 different names.

On the first of your last pictures, you again have a different name for the sensor.

Make sure you only have it connected once, I would go for the ANT connection.

Maybe it's struggling because of multiple connections.

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 1 year ago in reply to AgentMax

AgentMax said:
Make sure you only have it connected once, I would go for the ANT connection.

Yes. Both the BT and ANT+ connections are shown above.

63905 = ANT+

FC-F9.D0.1A.9E.S0 = BT

Delete the BT connection.