Hello all, First time Garmin owner, and developer. I have the Garmin Edge 530, and i am making (playing around) with an app for it, but i have a couple of questions. First of all, i cant seem to find the two bottom buttons mapped to any function calls, other than the "onKey()", in the BehaviourDelegate. For instance, it would be nice if the bottom right button were mapped to "onStart()". onSelect, onBack, onPrevious(next)Page works fine. Secondly, even though it is a device primarily to be used for bikes, i would be happy if it would still support other sports in ActivityRecording.createSession. I am for instance making a kayak app for myself, which is optimal on the 530 screen. Is ther any workaround, other than using "generic", and then set the name to "kayak". Thirdly, i cant seem to get access to the Accelerometer; does in include such a sensor? I would believe it is the one used for i.e. the incident detection. Much obliged, /Jakob

Garmin edge 530 missing functions

Former Member over 7 years ago

Hello all,

First time Garmin owner, and developer.

I have the Garmin Edge 530, and i am making (playing around) with an app for it, but i have a couple of questions.

First of all, i cant seem to find the two bottom buttons mapped to any function calls, other than the "onKey()", in the BehaviourDelegate. For instance, it would be nice if the bottom right button were mapped to "onStart()". onSelect, onBack, onPrevious(next)Page works fine.
Secondly, even though it is a device primarily to be used for bikes, i would be happy if it would still support other sports in ActivityRecording.createSession. I am for instance making a kayak app for myself, which is optimal on the 530 screen. Is ther any workaround, other than using "generic", and then set the name to "kayak".
Thirdly, i cant seem to get access to the Accelerometer; does in include such a sensor? I would believe it is the one used for i.e. the incident detection.

Much obliged,

/Jakob

0 jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

1) You need to use onKey(). For example, the one on the bottom on the left is KEY_LAP, and the right is KEY_START. Sideload the Input sample from the SDK, and you should see what happens for every button press.

There is no onStart() or onLap() on any device so you have to go with the onKey() and check KEY_*

2) There's no problem problem creating a session in a device app. For example, I have a hiking app for the edge devices. What do you see when you try?

3) That's one I've not looked at or tried, but I'm thinking it's not available on a edge.

0 sabeard over 7 years ago

On item number 3 look at the pitch counter example in the SDK samples. It uses the accelerometer and is enabled for the Edge 820 and 520. There is no reason is should not also work on the 530 and 830. In reviewing the SDK, the Edge devices support the accelerometer , but do not support the magnetometer.

developer.garmin.com/.../Info.html

0 ekutter-dnu over 7 years ago in reply to sabeard

Yep, accelerometers work on the 530 just like on the watches. I have a test app that just graphs the acceleromters and it's working just fine on the 530.

As sabeard says, take a look at the sample.