Though your tracker is designed to look for pressure changes based on elevation gains pressure changes due to other causes such as a gust of wind a weather change or opening a door can occasionally cause your.
Does fitbit charge 2 track floors.
But all your steps for both going up and down do get counted irrelevant of the floor.
Couldbe welcome to the community.
Simple comfortable and very helpful.
You ll see that it is a really cool tracker.
Thanks for taking the time to report the situation you are experiencing with your charge 3 tracking floors.
Your tracker registers one floor when you climb about ten feet at one time.
Your fitbit charge 2 calculates floors using an altimeter which is a sensor that calculates altitude based on atmospheric pressure.
Wear your charge 2 everyday to track a variety of stats.
A number of the fitbit trackers can measure floors climbed.
Most of the times it is just about knowing how the fitbit trackers work.
Calories burned total for day including rest active minutes with strenuous activity.
In this case there are a couple of things that may be causing your tracker to record extra floors.
Only up one floor in my house and already in my fitbit i have 10.
This is my fourth day of having the fitbit charge 3.
What info does the fitbit read when you cycle.
It does not track the floors climbed.
And of course it does not register floors when you go down.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
Your charge 2 will celebrate when you reach your main goal.
All day heart rate and zones.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
In fact floors do not count for anything floors do not carry any incremental caloric burn value it s just a statistic aimed at keeping people motivated.
It worked for one day i woke up in the morning and it did not work that day then recorded one floor but not the rest.
Maybe it would track the elevation gain and you would get floor badges.
Unfortunately fitbit s floor functionality does not recognize the incremental effort of climbing up.
August 26 2017 at 7 46 am.
I realized this on the second day and looked at the blog and reset it as directed.
And yes it tracks floors.
And other times when you walk uphill your charge 2 will also record floors.
Fitbit one fitbit charge and fitbit ionic to name a few.
Look at specifications on their website.
Congrats on getting a new charge 2.
In the meantime i switched to the newer fitbit charge hr 2 although i haven t tested this trick with the new.