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Firmware for Pinetime smartwatch written in C++ and based on FreeRTOS
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Ability to change step goal by 500 step increments #1427

Closed calhix closed 1 year ago

calhix commented 1 year ago

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I'd like to be able to change the step goal by 500 increments.

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Ideally I'd like to set the step goal to 7500. I was doing some research and saw one study stating after 7500 steps a day, the benefits tend to quickly trail down. We could also think about changing the default to 7500 but 10k is the default nearly everywhere so it's not a big deal.

Article: https://www.prevention.com/fitness/fitness-tips/a31788212/how-many-steps-should-you-walk-a-day/

minacode commented 1 year ago

Your wish for 500-steps is valid. However I doubt you are an elderly woman that wants to do no more step than necessary to increase your 4-year mortality, so don't overvalue such numbers. I think the default 10000 are still a good default.

Dheenhasty commented 1 year ago

Another way to improve this is to duplicate +/- and add +/- 1000 and +/- 100

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i'll try to push a commit to do that :)

minacode commented 1 year ago

Honest question: do you trust the sensor enough that 100-granularity is needed for a whole day?

Dheenhasty commented 1 year ago

Of Course !!!!! :) More seriously yes i think the error margin of 100 a day could fit.

Just want to propose another solution to set up the step more easily, but the more i think of it the more i think the 500 step is ok on the watch (maybe adding a button to reset to default or static value ? )

the ideal solution could be a custom variable pushed directly thru companion app.

Riksu9000 commented 1 year ago

I don't know about increasing the granularity just to include a specific goal and making adjustment require twice the amount of presses, or clutter the UI. I doubt that 7500 is the precisely calculated perfect value, such that we must support it in particular.

calhix commented 1 year ago

I don't care so much about changing the default value of 10k but I do think making the ability to change by 500 is good. The sensor IMO is good enough for it and I don't think the average person is going to be messing with their step goal often. I do agree the UI should remain the same to reduce clutter. Especially if merging the step goal quick setting and steps app.

Riksu9000 commented 1 year ago

Can you explain why someone would want to pick 6500 steps, and 6000 would not be acceptable?

calhix commented 1 year ago

In the future if we have a goal reached notification as I brought up in #641 I'd like to know when I reached my preferred goal of 7500. Its not contingent on that issue though and there's no biggie if I go over of course but that's what I'd like my minimum steps a day to be and perhaps there are others as well.