New Garmin smartwatch - Vivoactive HR

Jazz Monkey Jr

fubar925

I've noticed it is better in daylight... But that suits me everything I want to watch on TV is on at night so no exercise then...[emoji3]

Just finished a 20min indoor run and it worked that the garmin was .07 of a mile out from the running machine the garmin was further along.. For an indoor run not to bad. Also it was also a warm up and not to intense..

Warnie

that's better than the 0.80 out that I had last night but mine was more than likely down to not setting it up with the 15 minute walk or a run outdoors. I'll report back. As long as it's fairly accurate indoors I have no issues with that.

Anyone tried indoor bike? I'm assuming for that to work you'd need something on the shoe?

Jazz Monkey Jr

Not necessarily. I have ant sensors on my bike so they work on the turbo for speed and even my turbo has speed and power (bkool) through ant but not sure if that will connect up, will try it and see.

chirpy

I have a quick question for those that now have the Vivoactive HR: Does the display stay on all the time, or do you have to do the wrist-twist thing to wake up the display as you have to on many fitness devices? If it does stay active, can you have a display stay current that shows your heart rate?

Jazz Monkey Jr

Yes it stays on all the time and you can have a screen that shows heart rate. It doesn't take heart rate all the time but probably every 5 mins unless you start an activity then it will monitor continuously.
There is a backlight that domes on when a notification comes through or you can activate it on tilt but not sure if mine is working.

chirpy

Great, thank you for that.

chirpy

Aargh! Just noticed this bit. That's annoying as I was hoping it did continuous heart rate monitoring, but every 5 minutes won't be good enough for me. Back to the Fitbit range for me then.

Jazz Monkey Jr

I don't think Fitbit is continuous either.

chirpy

FitBit HR devices and the Basis Peak are basically continuous. Apple, Microsoft and others are infrequent (minutes apart) and it seems Garmin does it based on device. I was just hoping they'd made this one continuous, but it appears not:
Understanding continual (24/7) optical HR data and resting heart rate