Can I use a chest strap (H10) for activity tracking?

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So sometimes it gets annoying or uncomfortable to wear my watch (most recently a Polar Unite) during normal daily activities and I'd prefer to put on my H10 and put my watch in my pocket or at least loosten it on my writs. It seems like this should work, but when I try it Polar Flow shows a gap without heart rate data for the time my watch wasn't on my wrist. Am I doing something wrong, or is this a limitation of the Polar ecosystem?

Obviously I can record HR data during a workout, but I don't want to say I'm going on an hours-long low-intensity run when I'm really puttering around the house.

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