Exercise calories bug

39flavours

Hi hoping someone can help me fix this, for some reason my exercise calories burnt reads 17,239 which is obviously nonsense but I don't know how to reset it, any advice? Thanks

39flavours

Just installed Huawei health app on my phone which I think is the culprit, still can't figure out how to fix it though.

Stockholm_Andy

Do you have a screen shot from the exercise screen?

Yesterday is was a bit screwy for me too. It gave me a negative -2,244 Kcals based on activity and I'd walked 15,000 steps and ran for 45 mins.

39flavours

Thank you, yes here it is. I've been trying to disable the health app but it's a feature of the phone so it won't let me. It's not listed in my connected devices either. Sometimes I think mfp needs to employ better programmers to redesign the app as I find it quite clunky and dated, maybe then I'd be able to find a way to rectify this.

39flavours

Just googled it (which I probably should have done first) and found this:

"MFP state that data sync with Huawei Health is in early development, but should be fully launched soon.
The main problem at present seems to be related to calorie units. Huawei report energy in calories (small c) so their data shows energy figures as (for example) 300 kcal (300,000 calories). MFP report energy in Calories ( capital C = kcal). So when Huawei export calories it is imported by MFP as Calories, but unfortunately it is therefore a factor of x1000 too big!!
It should be blindingly simple for the two business to be able to fix, but for some reason it still hasn't happened."

That was six months ago.

So it seems that it's a problem for everyone with this type of phone. I'm really bummed as I have a Huawei band 3 fitness tracker coming today in the post and I'm pretty sure that it's gonna have the same issue with syncing to mfp. I was really excited to be getting my first tracker but I guess I'll have to return it. So far I haven't been tracking my exercise calories on mfp as I don't trust the database or the gym machines.

suziecue25

I haven't been tracking mine either as MFP will only let me input 1 exercise per day and I do 2 or 3 little bouts of different exercise a day.

spiriteagle99

suziecue25 wrote: »

I haven't been tracking mine either as MFP will only let me input 1 exercise per day and I do 2 or 3 little bouts of different exercise a day.

I can input several different exercises. I walk, I run, I bike, I do yoga, shovel snow, etc. It lets me input it either separately or together.

puffbrat

suziecue25 wrote: »

I haven't been tracking mine either as MFP will only let me input 1 exercise per day and I do 2 or 3 little bouts of different exercise a day.

That's weird. I have never had a problem entering multiple exercises on a single day.

39flavours wrote: »

Just googled it (which I probably should have done first) and found this:

"MFP state that data sync with Huawei Health is in early development, but should be fully launched soon.
The main problem at present seems to be related to calorie units. Huawei report energy in calories (small c) so their data shows energy figures as (for example) 300 kcal (300,000 calories). MFP report energy in Calories ( capital C = kcal). So when Huawei export calories it is imported by MFP as Calories, but unfortunately it is therefore a factor of x1000 too big!!
It should be blindingly simple for the two business to be able to fix, but for some reason it still hasn't happened."

That was six months ago.

So it seems that it's a problem for everyone with this type of phone. I'm really bummed as I have a Huawei band 3 fitness tracker coming today in the post and I'm pretty sure that it's gonna have the same issue with syncing to mfp. I was really excited to be getting my first tracker but I guess I'll have to return it. So far I haven't been tracking my exercise calories on mfp as I don't trust the database or the gym machines.

I don't have any calorie adjustments linked to MFP, but can you see and edit-able actual entry in the exercise page? If so, you should be able to manually change the calories according to the error listed above.

39flavours

Thank you puffbrat, I went back and had another look to see what I could do. Nothing on the exercise page but then I noticed the edit button on the diary page (pencil icon) and was able to select the exercise entry and delete it, which is good news, but I still can't use my fitness tracker with mfp unless anyone can think of a hack for it?

kshama2001

suziecue25 wrote: »

I haven't been tracking mine either as MFP will only let me input 1 exercise per day and I do 2 or 3 little bouts of different exercise a day.

spiriteagle99 wrote: »

I can input several different exercises. I walk, I run, I bike, I do yoga, shovel snow, etc. It lets me input it either separately or together.

Sometimes I have @suziecue25's issue as well but sometimes I can enter exercise more than once. I'm using desktop.

My workaround is to either wait til the end of the day to add exercise or add some of it the next day.

kshama2001

39flavours wrote: »

Thank you puffbrat, I went back and had another look to see what I could do. Nothing on the exercise page but then I noticed the edit button on the diary page (pencil icon) and was able to select the exercise entry and delete it, which is good news, but I still can't use my fitness tracker with mfp unless anyone can think of a hack for it?

Sounds like you cannot sync them for now so how about adding manually? When I lost my fitbit I went back to adding manually and actually prefer it.

39flavours

Yes thanks kshama, that's my plan and that way I don't have to count my day to day walking steps, just my purposeful exercise sessions.