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Can we get the BASICS right soon please?

Well, it's over six months since swapping over from MotionBased, and of the three basic pieces of data I require from a GPS, Garmin Connect is still only reporting one of these correctly. I need:
o DISTANCE - that's fine;
o TIME - this is often overstated, as GC doesn't report MOVING TIME - essential for runs, rides etc interrupted for any reason (regrouping, traffic lights, etc etc);
o ELEVATION - hugely variable and erratic - MotionBased's correction algorithm was fine on this.
Surely this situation has gone on for long enough now - can you please get these previously-correct (in MB) data elements to be reported correctly as top priority, before adding in any more GC features? Two out of three basic pieces of data being wrong this long after the migration is a very poor score. :(

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

Hi SHAUNPROBERTS,

The Time elements and Elevation improvements are coming with the next release. We just have to wait a few more weeks.

kk

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

Hi SHAUNPROBERTS,

The Time elements and Elevation improvements are coming with the next release. We just have to wait a few more weeks.

kk

great news
i often run in area surrounded by high buildings (La Défense, near Paris) and altitude and speed are very very disapointing...

how many weeks to wait ?
:)

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

We're looking at a mid-March release now.

kk

0 TBMENZEL over 15 years ago

We're looking at a mid-March release now.

kk

"mid-March" Thats now!!

0 SHAUNPROBERTS over 15 years ago

I'm not holding my breath waiting for any updates at all, now. According to the top post here:

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?p=31230

... the entire GC development team have resigned.

Strangely, no announcement from Garmin on this. Whaddoyouknow ...

0 stevekn over 15 years ago

Perhaps RunKKrun isn't so happy now?

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

The release is still planned to go live in the coming days; as of this morning it is set for release on 31 March. I'll let you know if that changes.

And of course I'm still happy!

kk

0 SHAUNPROBERTS over 15 years ago

First off: congratulations for getting this release out, despite the obvious difficulty of having your development team being on the verge of departure.

Also, the two things I was looking for are in this release. Having the Moving Time is great, and the Elapsed Time is also useful. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble with the new elevation data, and I can't for the life of me understand what's going on here.

First, for the first time ever, my 205 is reporting some negative elevations, down to -517 feet on my most recent run (take a look). This appears in Garmin Training Center, so I can't see that this has anything to do with this GC software update. There is nowhere below sea level round here I should say.

Any idea why this should be??

Second, I'm now thinking this is an ideal situation to see how the new elevation correction is working, so I click on "Enabled" under "Elevation Correction" - and it has no effect, and the option won't change from "Disabled". Reading the help there, it seems to be saying that the correction should be in effect by default - but it seems not to be, or else isn't working yet. Is it possible you are still rolling this out, and by using GC early on the 1st April in the UK I'm slightly jumping the gun?

I've checked the "Settings" for the equivalent global choice on correction that used to be in MotionBased, but quite sensibly there isn't one - the recorded elevations are rubbish, so all activities should be corrected, imho. I hope this is not another situation where users outside the US aren't getting the same level of service as US ones.

In any case, I'd be obliged if you could give any help on the above two problems.

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

Hi,
Can you tell me how you are seeing the moving time?
I've had a look at the new release and cannot see this field. I have activity type of road cycling and am looking at old activities.
Thanks

0 stevekn over 15 years ago

I have made some comments in the elevation thread about the "new" connect.

In summary, elevation doesn't appear to work, charts are "empty", explore still has problems, no weather, no time in heart rate zones...

Is there a definitive list of what has been added, and if possible what works and what doesn't?

Thanks Steve