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  • Probably existing smartwatches measure this in a much more complex way.

    Feel free to look into it...

    If you find something better then we can look at implementing it in Bangle.js firmware, but nothing stops you doing in JavaScript yourself. In fact doing it in JS would allow you to compare the results from both algorithms.

    At least from my digging, acceleration magnitude seems to be the standard way of doing it. You can add a filter on to drop individual 'steps' and to only count once someone has taken a few steps in sequence...

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