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Indoor Walking Super Inaccurate

I've had my Venu 2S since July and have been very happy with it overall.  The weather sent us on an indoor walk for the first time since I've had it recently.  My husband used his recently purchased Venu 3 on the same activity.  My watch was horrible on indoor walking, to the point I deleted the activity and tried Indoor Track with marginally better success and just edited the distance afterward.  His was vastly more accurate and didn't drop out pace nearly as much as mine did.

Yesterday, I tried Indoor Walking at home to see if it would do any better.  The first mile wasn't horrible -- logged 1 mile in around 24 minutes, which was slower than actual, but tolerable.  The next 21 minutes, however, it only logged .29 miles with an average pace of zero.  I was swinging my arms mightily, but it didn't seem to matter.  Pace would go from 18 to 0 to 45, etc.  We walk daily and get good data when using GPS, but apparently my accelerometer is just terrible. 

It seems the Venu 3 is better on capturing indoor activities, but don't know if there's anything I can do to improve accuracy of indoor walking on the Venu 2 or not.

Thanks!

  • Let's give this a shot: How to Improve Distance Tracking on Indoor Activities

    If you continue to experience this disruption, you'll want to reach out to your local Garmin Support team.

  • Thanks so much!  Totally by coincidence, we went to the Y today and I did 3 miles on the treadmill.  Ha!  I was actually super impressed with the distance for the first mile.  I mean, like dead on.  It drifted ahead of the treadmill a bit more each mile, though, and by the end it was ahead about 3/10ths, which honestly isn't a dealbreaker for that anyway.  If a regular indoor walk would be like that, I would be totally fine with it.   It did ask me to calibrate the activity and I did, so we'll see if it changes anything.  The cadence on that indoor walk was just basically massive dead spaces for the second half of the activity, though.  I could send it on to support just so they can see what it did.