Manually adjustment to driving -- workaround
sodakat
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So I've been bugging the folks at Fitbit for a month or maybe six weeks now because the manually adjustment for driving stopped working correctly. It took a couple calls before they acknowledged that it is a known issue and the engineers are working on it.
I drive school bus and each route adds about 3,000 "steps" which also adds calories and 6,000 unearned steps makes quite a calorie adjustment in MFP.
I could remove my Flex and leave it in my car while driving bus but 1) can't remember to do this and 2) the whole idea of wrist band over clip on is NOT having to remove it.
Yesterday the rep I talked to in hopes to get an update that the fix was coming soon, admitted that because the problem is internal with Fitbit calculations in their database, regardless which device I use the problem will exist, so buying a new Charge won't solve things.
One rep suggested I choose "walking" as the activity instead of driving but we couldn't get that work correctly due to the time/distance.
Finally I decided to look through the activity list and find something else and saw "Riding in a bus". That worked!
As soon as I entered the activity and time started/duration, 3,020 steps were deleted as well as the extra calories being replaced with 68, which is close enough for me considering I drove for 90 minutes. Whew!
I drive school bus and each route adds about 3,000 "steps" which also adds calories and 6,000 unearned steps makes quite a calorie adjustment in MFP.
I could remove my Flex and leave it in my car while driving bus but 1) can't remember to do this and 2) the whole idea of wrist band over clip on is NOT having to remove it.
Yesterday the rep I talked to in hopes to get an update that the fix was coming soon, admitted that because the problem is internal with Fitbit calculations in their database, regardless which device I use the problem will exist, so buying a new Charge won't solve things.
One rep suggested I choose "walking" as the activity instead of driving but we couldn't get that work correctly due to the time/distance.
Finally I decided to look through the activity list and find something else and saw "Riding in a bus". That worked!
As soon as I entered the activity and time started/duration, 3,020 steps were deleted as well as the extra calories being replaced with 68, which is close enough for me considering I drove for 90 minutes. Whew!
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Excellent find. Don't tell them about it, or they'll mess with it probably, and break it too.
Do you get as many false steps if the device is in a pants pocket? I guess the seat still could be rather bouncy, huh.0 -
Yeah its the seat that is bouncy, more than just the bus. I'm happy to have good springs in the seat though, so don't want to change that! The first thing the fitbit folks suggested was to put it in my pocket. Well, besides the fact that I can't remember to take the damn thing off regardless if I'm leaving it in my car to drive or put it in my pocket, the jostling is the same.
I won't tell them! I know that they had to muck this up in the first place because I'm sure the same formula is applied to every activity with a variable only in the database cell for each activity. No way it 'just happened' since it worked great for so long.0
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