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Floors metric - anyone else giving up?

I've given up on using the "floors" count metric on my Venu. I go up the same steps at the same pace a number of times in our home. Sometimes, it counts. Sometimes, nothing.

Today my wife and I took a walk about the neighborhood. There's a little gentle slope at one point. Coming home I see 15 flights of steps ("floors") were added to the count, which had missed actual steps upstairs several times previously during the day.

If the stairway counter is that unreliable, why bother. I can keep a record of my stair steps on an index card if I cared that much.

Would seem to be better for Garmin's credibility to remove the "Floor" metric from the Venu than to leave it in with such questionable accuracy - it's worse for the brand image than helpful.

  • It's the same on Venu2 - floors counter is useless. Exactly as you described it 

    Sometimes, it counts. Sometimes, nothing

    Fortunately it's not important to me so I just ignore it. But you are right, better to remove it.

    Once I forgot to wear my second watch (used for sport tracking) so I run "Hike" activity on my V2. It was really funny to discover that during that activity it counted floors :) 

  • Ha! Perhaps Garmin could reduce user disappointment by renaming it from "Floors" to "Turbulence."

  • If you think about it, it’s really not counting stairs as much as ascent and descent with the altimeter and then converts that to your flights of stairs taken.  A floor of stairs is about 10ft in elevation and then their SW converts that to a flight of stairs.  It doesn’t work as well indoors as outdoors I find.  But when I take a walk, like the other day with an ascent / descent of about 260 ft it correctly showed I walked 26 flights of “stairs” descended and 28 flights ascended.  I started my walk at the bottom of my driveway and ended it at the top so it was pretty much spot on.  

    Maybe they should call it something other then floors, I don’t know but I get your point.

    https://outdoorfamilyadv.com/why-you-should-understand-elevation-for-trails/