{"id":11427,"date":"2014-03-15T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=11427"},"modified":"2014-03-16T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T16:27:16","slug":"pedometer-testing-withings-pulse-doesnt-track-elevation-for-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/11427","title":{"rendered":"Pedometer Testing: Withings Pulse Doesn’t Track Elevation for Crap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first part of today’s activities I knew would be problematic for the pedometers: we went biking at Coopers Rock. It’s amusing how far off each device is from every other device. <\/p>\n

But, I had my GPS, so I got all that information.<\/p>\n

Then I realized that when we walked to dinner, I should take the GPS! Further proof the Withings Pulse can’t calculate elevation for shit!<\/p>\n

First up, what Withings recording for me elevation today, all day:<\/p>\n

\"Sat-elevation-Withings\"<\/a><\/p>\n

From the time period of 3:30 to 5:30, it gives me an elevation gain of 119 feet.<\/p>\n

And now, what the Withings recording for Michael. Keep in mind that we spend the entire day together.<\/p>\n

\"Michael_Withings_Saturday\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now here’s what the FitBit recorded for Saturday:<\/p>\n

\"Sat-elevation-FitBit\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Then numbers aren’t directly compatible, as the FitBit displays the data is flights of stairs. But you can see the trend.<\/p>\n

Here’s the route recorded by GPS:<\/p>\n

\"Walking-Pugs-Elevation-Garmin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

According to my GPS, my elevation gain for the entire trip was 310 ft. So the Withings gave me about a third of the elevation I actually had.<\/p>\n

So, compared both to the FitBit and to actual GPS measurements, the Withings Pulse has been giving me only about a third of the elevation it should if I’m climbing hills (versus climbing stairs–it seems to get the stairs fine).<\/p>\n

BAH HUMBUG.<\/p>\n

Oh, in case you were interested, here was our elevation from our biking at Coopers Rock:<\/p>\n

\"Coopers-Rock-Elevation-Garmin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the route:<\/p>\n

\"coopers-rock-bike-route\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first part of today’s activities I knew would be problematic for the pedometers: we went biking at Coopers Rock. It’s amusing how far off each device is from every other device. But, I had my GPS, so I got all that information. Then I realized that when we walked to dinner, I should take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1067,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-science-health-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-2Yj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}