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Heart Rate for Manually-added Activity Issues

Denise
over 4 years ago

I have some complaints (still) about this and can't believe it isn't a relatively easy fix if someone would just care enough to do it.

1)  When you add a manual activity, it is a pretty "dumb" activity. It does not pull Steps done during the activity time given, nor does it pull Heart Rate, both of which are automatically recorded and known, and there is no reason it shouldn't!

2)  Also, manually-added activities don't seem to count towards intensity minutes, I assume because they don't look at the HR for the time of the activity.

This is so very basic. Why can't this be done? It seems like it is a software/app issue, as opposed to the watch itself, so an update should do it. I have searched but cannot seem to find any place to make a suggestion that might actually get some attention by the people at Garmin. Any tips or suggestions? Am I the only one who wants this? The other major companies all do this and I can't fathom why Garmin, in nearly 2021, does not.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Other things that should accompany manually-added activities, if it were to correctly pull HR and steps, would then be Time in Zones and Distance. These things factor in to so many of the metrics in the app (VO2 max, calories burned, Intensity Minutes, just to name a few.) that it is really necessary to have it all count in manual activities as well as activities that are started deliberately!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Yes, totally agree. It's really annoying it doesn't pick this info up. Where do we log these points so that someone from Garmin picks it up? 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    I manually entered an activity today because i forgot to start the activity and to see if anything has change in past year and to my disappointment there is still no data available. The data is all there stored somewhere on the watch so why can't it take this information just like Fitbit watches do? I can log a manual events on my Fitbit 3 months after the activity and it still pulls in all of the data from that date and time period. 

    It blows my mind that in 2022, my garmin smart watch still can't do this very simple task.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to 4904960

    The Garmin watch collect heart rate in different ways, depending on what you say you are doing. It uses different algorithms. It makes a difference if you say you are doing yoga, resting, bicycling or cardio, or if you are just going for a walk. Since it is implemented that way, it is not a simple task to collect data after the activity. 

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to ovekvam

    I can't argue one way or the other if that makes sense as I honestly don't know. I'd be happy if it just took the basic heart rate for a defined time as a manual activity. This way it can throw my heart rate into their zones and show me how long I'm in each category.