I have a VivoSmart HR that I really quite like, and it's great for fitness tracking, but there are times when you want something a little nicer looking! I really like the look of the VivoMove, but I'm unsure whether to buy one or not, because I don't know if I could switch between them easily? If I'm wearing the VivoSmart HR most of the time (at work, going to the gym, etc), but switch to the VivoMove to go out of an evening, will Connect cope with that?
Not in the way you're most likely imagining. You must explicitly set which device is the one-and-only fitness tracker for your Garmin Connect account. You can manually change that in Garmin Connect from the vívosmart‑HR to the vívomove and vice versa, but if you do so in the middle of the day (or evening), there are consequences for the tracking data retained/presented.
Not in the way you're most likely imagining. You must explicitly set which device is the one-and-only fitness tracker for your Garmin Connect account. You can manually change that in Garmin Connect from the vívosmart‑HR to the vívomove and vice versa, but if you do so in the middle of the day (or evening), there are consequences for the tracking data retained/presented.
Well, that's disappointing, but thanks for the reply. Any plans to change this behaviour, do you know? Surely having users buy more devices is a good thing for Garmin?
Surely having users buy more devices is a good thing for Garmin?
Of course, but more in the manner of a customer having one device in the vivo family for 24×7 activity tracking (which provides rudimentary – if at all – GPS/performance metric tracking for specific sporting activities), a Forerunner or fēnix watch for running (and maybe swimming, if we're talking triathlon/multi-sport models), an Edge computer for upfront display mounted on the bicycle's handle bar, etc. as opposed to multiple 24×7 activity tracking devices to suit different social/everyday occasions and style requirements.
A vague promise was made by Garmin about 2 years ago for this but it obviously has been dropped, deprioritized, or proven to be more difficult than they imagined.
