Basically, I have a Venu 3s now that I want as my primary tracker for everything. However, I saw somewhere that someone used another Garmin watch to track steps on a walking pad. Right now, when I use my walking pad my desk, it misses a lot of the steps because I'm typing so my wrist isn't really moving in a step-like fashion. I want the HR info so cheesing it by putting the watch itself somewhere else doesn't work for that.
I already know about the TrueUp feature from when I last had a Garmin so I figured that would do exactly what I wanted. Apparently the Venu 3s should default to being my primary device based on the Physio TrueUp and Unified Training Status support pages, so that's fine. Physio TrueUp is enabled on the VA4s.
I have a VA4s that my partner is no longer using, so I figured I could use this exactly like that. Put it in the pocket of my leggings and let that track my steps instead while the Venu 3s tracks my HR and let Connect combine them together.
So I have completed a walk using the Indoor Walk activity on the VA4s on my walking pad and synced the VA4s. This has brought the activity over and says that it has recorded 3,556 steps in that period of time when I view it in Garmin Connect. But when I look at my Steps on my Venu 3s and on the Home page of Garmin Connect, it says I'm at 2,440 steps - most of which are from before the period this walking activity took place during, though some show as happening during.
Right now the VA4s and Venu 3s disagree on my step total. The Venu says 2,440 - in line with Home on Connect, and VA4s says 4,206 which lines up with the activity I just did, plus some I did while testing whether it detected steps at all in my pocket.
Then, I tried taking the Venu off (though I didn't turn it off) as maybe the fact they're both being 'worn' could be the problem? And having just the VA4s tracking, did another 200ish steps, synced and... no change to my step count per Connect/Venu.
Am I just wrong about how TrueUp is supposed to work? Is the fact that I'm wearing the Venu 3s at the same time the problem? But then why would it not update on the 200-ish step walk to reflect that? Does the Venu need to be completely switched off?
The ideal here is that I can keep the Venu on for HR data, and let the VA4s record my steps since that'll be more accurate by virtue of being in my pocket. I'd just rather not have the Venu in there (it's sweaty and humid) if possible. Is there a way to achieve this or am I out of luck?
