Fitbit devices that count floors have an altimeter sensor that can detect when you re going up or down in elevation.
Fitbit not accurately counting floors.
For example closing the door of a car or opening it can cause a slight change in air pressure that the fitbit could mistake for a floor climbed.
The conditions for your tracker to record one floor are for you to move forward while there is an elevation gain of at least 10 feet.
I think the versa interprets that i have stopped climbing when i negotiate the landing so not 10 feet and no stair count.
Not a big issue for me.
This will count as one floor.
Because the device looks for continuous motion pausing when you go up a flight of stairs can cause the device to not count the floor.
It will not make my dailly accurate i have to drive to the nearest elevator but might be a way to at least get the cumulative total accurate.
Every fitbit device i have owned that tracks stairs has not been terribly accurate.
Why won t my fitbit sync.
Let me know if you have any doubts.
The same can happen when you turn the shower on.
Your device uses changes in barometric pressure combined with the steps you take to calculate floors climbed.
Now that you ve set up your personal profile and paired your fitbit to your phone the syncing process should.
So back to flex 2 which does not even pretend to do floors.
Yet fitbit is not trying to fix this issue rather just give this explanation over over again.
My staircase certainly goes up more than 10 feet but there is a ending in the middle of it.
When your fitbit shows a four digit code enter it into the app.
Devices may track floors while doing everyday tasks such as opening doors driving or riding elevators or escalators or from abrupt weather and atmospheric.
It is annoying to get 1 or 2 climbs when i have done 12 to 20 in a day.
Fitbit accuracy for floor tracking.
This is the most ridiculous things i ve ever heard for counting floors.
My floors havbe an 11 foot threshold.
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Not very accurate but the fitbit flex is the best of the bunch.
Regarding your question your fitbit tracker doesn t count actual stairs.
Your device registers one floor when you climb about 10 feet at one time.
Calories burned accuracy verdict.
So whenever you check out your fitbit stats just know that the listed number of calories burned is probably lower than what you really burned.
Your device registers 1 floor when you climb about 10 feet or 3 meters.
The fitbit most accurately estimated the energy expenditure of golfing.
