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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1806836" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Ashwin, thanks. I knew about how to disable the fall detection, but I am old enough to think a fall detector might actually come into use some day. I work out alone in my home gym, so if I fall hard enough to be rendered unable to get up, it would handy for it to call my wife (who is the emergency contact I've set up). Just thought it odd that the thing triggered. I don't recall flailing my arms about, just sitting and watching a parade. Did try to catch some candy canes being thrown to the crowd, but that had been much earlier. Not going to worry about it too much, just thought it curious and wondered if others had seen the false warning. I have disabled the heart monitor as it kept giving false readings both high and low. I'd get the warning, take my own pulse and it would be in the 65-75 range (which is my normal range). I think sometimes if it misses a beat, the low alarm is triggered as it reports, each time, about 30-38 as the recorded low, which is roughly half of normal. Never reported a high, mostly because my pulse stays low unless I workout, and for workouts it ignores the high/low settings. I think the watch has a way to go to be reliable enough to be called a medical device.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1806836, member: 396914"] Ashwin, thanks. I knew about how to disable the fall detection, but I am old enough to think a fall detector might actually come into use some day. I work out alone in my home gym, so if I fall hard enough to be rendered unable to get up, it would handy for it to call my wife (who is the emergency contact I've set up). Just thought it odd that the thing triggered. I don't recall flailing my arms about, just sitting and watching a parade. Did try to catch some candy canes being thrown to the crowd, but that had been much earlier. Not going to worry about it too much, just thought it curious and wondered if others had seen the false warning. I have disabled the heart monitor as it kept giving false readings both high and low. I'd get the warning, take my own pulse and it would be in the 65-75 range (which is my normal range). I think sometimes if it misses a beat, the low alarm is triggered as it reports, each time, about 30-38 as the recorded low, which is roughly half of normal. Never reported a high, mostly because my pulse stays low unless I workout, and for workouts it ignores the high/low settings. I think the watch has a way to go to be reliable enough to be called a medical device. [/QUOTE]
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