Altimeter "Continuous" Auto Calibrate During Activity

Hello all,
Is "Continuous" auto calibration during activity still "broken"?
When I had the Fenix 6S I would get some high values, seems that on 945 LTE is the same.

I saw the Fenix 6 changelog and apparently it got corrected...

Ran yesterday with 945 lte and suunto peak yesterday, on Lille France which is flat. suunto 6m d+, garmin 28m d+, don't think I had 28m of ascent.

Suunto 9 peak gps+Glonass

https://www.suunto.com/move/andrfaria640/6102dfdf6d6a6919c8c94747

Garmin 945 fw3.07 gps+glonass (continuous calibration on)
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/7211028776

If it is still broken what setting you use for better accuracy? calibration at start?

  • New run

    Altimeter calibration "at start" only. Better...25m vs 12m from suunto
    Both watches calibrated at the begining.
    Guess something is a bit wrong the garmin algo.

    https://ibb.co/Y7WtRSx
    Any news if we are going to see some improvement?

  • These watches aren't laboratory instruments, they're going to have various amounts of error.  In this case it simply appears that Suunto likely applies a bit stronger filtering to their algorithm, so it doesn't accumulate as many small altitude deviations as you run compared to the Garmin.  In this application stronger filtering would be a benefit, but if you were changing altitude more rapidly that filtering would be a negative, so its a design tradeoff.  In a 6k run the altitude may change a little here and there, but the altitude reading will bounce around a little even if you're not actually changing altitude, so all those little changes get accumulated.  The only way to prevent that is to filter them out, which may be what the Suunto is doing a bit better than the Garmin.  The amount of filtering is going to be fixed in the watch, so if you changed elevation more rapidly, its possible it would report less accurate results in that scenario.  Given the small amount of change in elevation, this seems like a mostly academic discussion anyway.