Equilab and similar app’s?

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Does anyone use Equilab and find it doesn’t track gaits properly. It seems to think my mares canter it trot and trot sometimes walk. She’s only 14.1hh so I don’t know of that’s the issue?
 
Equilab tends to think I'm cantering when I'm mounting or dismounting, so I have a few little spots of pink where I shouldn't, but otherwise it picks everything up fine. (HW cob, with a thundering trot and a not-very-bouncy canter.)
 
I only just started using equilab and it picks up the gaits mostly okay but it logs every hesitation in walk (plenty of them) as a transition so I have 100 transitions rather than the 20 something I probably actually did!

My friend who also uses it said it only picks up things correctly in a leg pocket, not in her coat??
 
smolmaus said:
I only just started using equilab and it picks up the gaits mostly okay but it logs every hesitation in walk (plenty of them) as a transition so I have 100 transitions rather than the 20 something I probably actually did!

My friend who also uses it said it only picks up things correctly in a leg pocket, not in her coat??
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That's a point, I have my phone in my thigh pocket. I wonder if that makes a difference? I suppose that, if I'm rising to the trot, that makes the trot even more obvious.
 
I've had Equilab show me cantering on our stoney lane when I rarely get out of a walk, usually when am opening the gate across the track, or leg yielding in walk.
It's often lied on my main hacking routes too about different paces, tho every time the mileage is just about spot on.

It did suffer a major glitch back in July, where I apparently did a 65 minute ride (correct) and covered 260 miles (wrong) and hit 165 miles per hour at one point (really? ) having gone from the yard, apparently straight across central London, out into the North Sea and finished at Luton airport! I deleted that one after sending it round as a screenshot to friends ???
We do have a local airport 2 miles away as the crow flies, perhaps my signal was picked up by a plane or helicopter? ?

Oh, and a 2nd one 2 days later, found the screenshot of that, I really didn't leave my area, I havent been in a plane since the summer before lockdown! I was out for about 45 mins in hot temps...
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I use it all the time, and records everything pretty spot on with both the tb and cob. I do get more transitions then I actually do whilst hacking, but that's fine.
I have found it is much more accurate when my phone is wedged in my long boot, compared to when I used to have it in my hi Viz pocket.
 
I find trot and canter can get muddled for me. But, mine is 13.3hh or only just 14hh standing on his tippy toes so just assume his short pony legs confuse the system ?

But actual speed and length of ride is always right for me.
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
I've had Equilab show me cantering on our stoney lane when I rarely get out of a walk, usually when am opening the gate across the track, or leg yielding in walk.
It's often lied on my main hacking routes too about different paces, tho every time the mileage is just about spot on.

It did suffer a major glitch back in July, where I apparently did a 65 minute ride (correct) and covered 260 miles (wrong) and hit 165 miles per hour at one point (really? ) having gone from the yard, apparently straight across central London, out into the North Sea and finished at Luton airport! I deleted that one after sending it round as a screenshot to friends ???
We do have a local airport 2 miles away as the crow flies, perhaps my signal was picked up by a plane or helicopter? ?

Oh, and a 2nd one 2 days later, found the screenshot of that, I really didn't leave my area, I havent been in a plane since the summer before lockdown! I was out for about 45 mins in hot temps...
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I use a runners belt and have it in their. I also have an Amazfit gts mini smart watch which tracks my route brilliantly but obvs not paces. I was just wondering about the disparity with paces. Todays said I did 100 transitions which I definitely didn’t
 
I've got mine set up as Icelandic and it recognises most walk trot canter as such. It only recognises tolt if quite fast but if it isn't fast and clean it thinks it is trot as it does with pace and all the tranter etc.
 
I’m actually shocked how accurate it is for mine. If she pops herself into a couple of strides of canter and back to trot it picks it up. My only issue with it is is remembering to switch it on/off ?
 
Gloi said:
I've got mine set up as Icelandic and it recognises most walk trot canter as such. It only recognises tolt if quite fast but if it isn't fast and clean it thinks it is trot as it does with pace and all the tranter etc.
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I’ve just changed mine to small pony and will see if that makes a difference
 
It was accurate for Fin's gaits but in Apple Land, it only lets you record three rides with the gait feature operating before it tells you that you have to pay for it. I am too cheap. It's like £80 per year. But the free version still accurately records the route, mileage, and elevation gain. I use it when I remember to turn it on.
 
Caol Ila said:
It was accurate for Fin's gaits but in Apple Land, it only lets you record three rides with the gait feature operating before it tells you that you have to pay for it. I am too cheap. It's like £80 per year. But the free version still accurately records the route, mileage, and elevation gain. I use it when I remember to turn it on.
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The free version used to include gaits.

I’ve paid for the year. I like that you can export data to spreadsheet and look at trends eg stride length after changing things.
 
I take it with a pinch of salt. Tbh all I really want to know is how many miles we've done, how long we were out and average speed. I used to use Endomondo before they binned the version with the option for horse riding and I hate Equilab in comparison, it's too busy and not accurate enough.
 
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