After 18.26 update Heart Rate reading is messed up !

9311008 said:

piece of equipment

:) you know how to find a fairly soft expression

I don't see a difference in mine between 17.xx, 18.23, and 18.26.  Yesterday I was out gardening for a couple hours. At one point after exertion I saw 140 bpm on my watchface. It also registered a max of 158 by the time I was through, but I didn't happen to look when it was showing values that high.

For a few weeks, I've been experimenting with a CIQ watchface that puts the heartrate min/max and current on the screen. What I see is that it is a somewhat long averaging period so the values are "smoothed" over a minute or so. An amusing result is that if I climb stairs and then remove the watch, the value on the screen will increase a bit before it disappears. I assume this is from the averaging window sliding along and discarding older (lower) values  and averaging the fewer remaining high values until it finally runs out of readings to average.

What I found out, is that if I start an activity on the watch it reads fairly well. I'll have to compare with the older forerunner I have sitting at home. 

Right, I just mean to say that mine seems to be working "normally" even outside activities. I don't think it will register rapid spikes due to the averaging, but it does seem to track sustained increases that last a few minutes.

I can't say mine is that different over the 14 months I've owned it. But, I am probably not looking at it as closely as some others here. I don't have any other monitor to compare to, other than the one in a blood pressure cuff that would be measuring resting rate.