Steps counted while sleeping

kidney_thief said:

Anyone experienced such bug?

Personally, I did not. Could it be that you moved your arm a lot during the sleep? Or slept on a vibrating massage bed? Somnambulism? Passionate night? 

kidney_thief said:

Any way to correct the step count for today?

The only way is deleting all data for that day on the Daily Summary page, but you would lose all the other daily metrics too. You could also export the data first, and then import some of it back (it exports a bigger number of FIT data files), or even edit some of the fit files with a suitable tool. However, it is a risky operation - it does not always work in the way one would assume. I know I tested it once, and was not really successful. But perhaps I just did not try hard enough.

kidney_thief said:

It messes up my calories calculations.

That should not. Garmin does not use steps for the Calories calculation if you have a device with a HRM sensor. The calculation is based on the HR data. So if you have high Calories counts in Garmin Connect for that night, the HR was probably high too - check the HR graph.

trux said:

That should not. Garmin does not use steps for the Calories calculation if you have a device with a HRM sensor. The calculation is based on the HR data.

If you have an oHRM, it will use data from that sensor in addition to other data and not on HR only. 

"Garmin watches which feature an optical heart rate sensor will also take into account heart rate and your VO2 Max estimate information to further provide a more accurate resting calorie measurement."

"Active calorie numbers are what is burned throughout the day only while doing physical, non-sedentary activities such as walking or working out. Garmin devices calculate active calories based on the activity level, type of activity, age, height, weight, gender, and heart rate (if available)."

support.garmin.com/.../

haha, no passionate night - sleep data looks normal for some reason Garmin added 400kcal to my balance (and 9k steps). My stress level was pretty low (although it's a recovery night after a 22km run, so not typically low, just upper side of 'blue stress' in chart). I hope it's not some weird heart problem

peculiar - now the HR chart shows 2 minutes of Z3 heart reate (~160-165bpm) - this is what caused the calorie count to go up. Must have been some glitch.

Same thing is happening to me, I've been wearing the watch for 2 days now and every night it's recording that I took over a 1,000 steps while I was sleeping. I'm returning the watch... this is BS. 

This happened to me over a year ago while relaxing in the Lapland. Over 6000 steps recorded when I woke up. Never happened again.