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HRM-PRO Autocalibration

kielak
over 2 years ago

I updated the HRM and there is an option for distances and tempos. I'm happy to change  my old Food sensor. But.

I want to switch the distance and pace to the "always" option, but the "autocalibration" option turns off

How to set the distance and pace manually

In food under was the rate, and what to do in HRM-PRO?

I do not understand this Garmin.

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  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to MULK

    Finally, someone who understood.

    I agree with you. It's just stupid and not intuitive. 

    To calibrate the HRM you have to run outside, but if you want to use the HRM for pace and distance outside then you have to have auto-calibration turned off. 

    Can't believe it.

    Also no push, about calibration completion.

    There is a request to give the distance from the treadmill, and why is there no option to give the distance outside!!!? This is mega stupid.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to MULK

    Stryd is not calibrating at all, you have to to this manually... In fact the folks from Stryd state that their footpod does not need the calibration at all.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to micro

    Stryd that does not requires calibration and needs to be set to 100 always is purely marketing. It needs to be calibrated same as any other footpod. Just check garmin forum, not stryd one. 

    And calibration is not done on footpod. It's done on watch. Just switch in on in sensor settings. I have both stryd and garmin (old one, not RD) footpods. Stryd is on 102,6 calibration factor and Garmin is on 104.2. Both factors came from autocalibration but then measured on 1 km flat straight track. Autocalibration gave really proper calibration factors. Putting 100 manually were bringing those 2,6% and 4,2% errors. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to MULK

    On top of that I can say that calibration factor changes time to time. We are not robots. Depending on surface (snow during winter or asphalt during summer), injury, training status (if you are on your peak state or it's recovery season) running pattern changes too. Not much, but still it might be around 0,5-1% deviations. And all of that was perfectly caught and updated automatically using Pace for footpod set to "Always" autocalibration "On".

    I can stand with that you cannot manually put calibration factor as for me Garmin does it very well itself. And I am sure that there might be totally different running patterns where Garmin cannot calibrate that well automatically and needs manual factor to be set. But switching off autocalibration when pace set to always is something not correct. Why to reinvent the wheel and change the algorithms if it was working well for generic footpods? 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

    Blake 

    Listen to the suggestions, because it really didn't work out very smartly with this calibration.

    Suggestion, you turn on auto all the time. No sense switching it on and off just when you are outside 

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    For me beside of autocalibration what concernes me is how I would check, was this pace recorded via watch or the strap?
    Of course if I set pace to always it will work but stop calibrating.
    What if I want strap to calibrate continously and show me pace always?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Adam-1972

    It's done simple in any footpod.. In settings both autocalibration and pace\distance might be switched on and off.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to MULK

    OK, but how to do this on HRM-Pro with new software, when you set always, autocalibration will switch to off.
    If you set „indoors”, autocalibration will work olways and strape will be default pace source for indoor activity, but what with outdoor activities?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Adam-1972

    Yep. That's the issue. Seems like there is no way to do that using current firmware and way it's working

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Adam-1972

    Assuming that you want to do clearance once a month, you need to turn off "outside" run 2h outside to turn on "always" again. 

    And it's hard to believe that no one at Garmin noticed this abstraction.