After recent sensor update indoor walking is not estimating distance accurately. A 4km walk today was logged as 0.7km. There was no option to calibrate at the end of the walk.
After recent sensor update indoor walking is not estimating distance accurately. A 4km walk today was logged as 0.7km. There was no option to calibrate at the end of the walk.
Hi, yes. Used it almost every day the last months. It’s also like my 5th Garmin device over the years. Though never tried any indoor tracking before.
I also tried to set the custom stride length, did not help.
Here is an outdoor walk. it is one continuous walk, with GPS off (and a manual stride length set), and auto-pause turned off. I did not stop walking the whole time, and the pace/cadence was very consistent. As you can see from the graph below, the watch periodically thinks that I stop and then restart (which I did not), and it then struggles to recalculate pace afterwards. I believe that this is the same issue as I was having with the indoor. this did not happen prior to the last update, but whether it was the sensor update package or the 2.60 software update I could not say.
That looks normal. The holes in the graph are usually caused by temporarily not swinging the watch-arm. Maybe you are looking at the display of the watch, or taking something out of a pocket. Then the watch will think you have stopped for a moment.
Hi, yes. Used it almost every day the last months. It’s also like my 5th Garmin device over the years. Though never tried any indoor tracking before.
When you are tracking an indoor walking activity which activity profile do you use?
I’ve tried indoor walking, treadmill and regular walking activity with gps turned off. All with very similar results.
I’ve tried indoor walking, treadmill and regular walking activity with gps turned off. All with very similar results.
I don't think it is normal. I've had the watch for a year and this has only just started happening.
Would it be okay if I DM both of you for some more information?
Sure, no problem. But after discussing with Garmin support we probably found the issue. I was told to try the same activity with exaggerated arm movement, since this is an issue already logged and it clearly worked. Though still not exact, but it improved accuracy significantly. Today first activity 4246 steps and 0,38km distance, second (with ridiculous arm swing) 2014 steps and 1,17 km.