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SW 4.00 & 3.90: Abnormal Heartbeat alarms during Indoor cycling

f|33tStA
over 5 years ago

since 3.77 Beta and public release of FW 3.90 i get always abnormal Heartbeat alarms during indoor cycling, of course i only wear the FR945 because i record my activity with Edge 830 and FR945 don't count the intensity minutes as before!

my abnormal heartbet is set to 100bpm!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Alex_WAW
    Alex_WAW said:

    Well I am talking Sufferfest and Zwift.

    I prefer to ignore single alarm per workout. Not a big deal. 

    sure, you can ignore, but the counting of intensitity minutes won't work too!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

    it came back today, seems not solved!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

    again today abnormal Heart Rate Alarm during Indoor cycling, the red ! in the graphic:

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

    mostly every second indoor ride i have one or more abnormal heartbeat alarms and no intensity minutes!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

    this is a workout for which there is almost no wrist movement to tell the watch you are exercising, and from earlier in the thread you are not recording it as Indoor Cycling either.

    So your complaint is that the watch is giving you an abnormal HR alarm when you it believes you aren't exercising? Some people might say that this is working exactly as intended.

    Oh, and in reference to your earlier post, if you discard the activity before saving on either of your watch or your Edge, TL works just fine through Physio True Up. I do this with my Indoor Cycling, and the TL shows up OK.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to mcalista

    no, it worked before in the older firmware releases (also on my old Fenix 5), the move iq have to identify the indoor ride! 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to f|33tStA

    today again 4 abnormal heartbeat alarms during 1:30 bike workout on Edge 830, i really don't understand that things like this worked for over a year with my old Fenix 5 now not working since FW 3.90 on FR945?

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I've been getting these recently as well on the FR945  during indoor cycling. Garmin Connect Mobile shows the alert should trigger if the threshold is met when you have been inactive for at least 10 minutes. Garmin obviously would understand users have multiple devices do different types of activities. I guess the question is how is active vs inactive defined (movement, heart rate, some combination of both)?

    An ongoing, and I suspect related issue I've been seeing, is the heart rate recorded by the watch's OHR sensor for the all-day HR are very wrong during a cycling activity (indoor or outdoor, it's always good when running though). It's somewhat sporadic, but the watch will show a HR values more in line with being at rest. For example, the all-day HR on Connect will show a max HR of 105 for a day where I did a long outdoor ride (recorded with an Edge and chest strap monitor) showing a max of 183. I don't expect these values to be exactly the same, but the all-day HR won't even show an elevated HR during an activity. I've noticed the watch face shows me a low HR, but if I switch the watch to the HR screen, it'll seem to update and show realistic values. The lowered values I'm thinking may be part of thinking I'm inactive, and ultimately triggering the abnormal heartbeat alarm if it suddenly records a proper value. Basically a bug somewhere with HR polling and accuracy during cycling. 

    I've also got a few of these types of alarms when I'm totally sedentary and it shows a high than possible heart rate (I'll manually validate my HR is normal at this point - but it's loud and annoying). Perhaps a separate issue though.

    We can disable the alert feature, but buying devices for their promised functionality and then needing to disable those that don't work is less than ideal. I got the FR945 in June 2019, and the inaccurate OHR readings during a bike ride have been happening since at least last summer, but the abnormal HR alerts are new within the last couple weeks for me.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to welosiped

    again today 1 hour indorr ride with 2 abnormal heartbet alarms!