Support persistLocation() on 920XT please

I am rather frustrated that persistLocation() is still not supported on devices other than Fenix and Epix according to the SDK documentation.

I would like to use it on the 920XT. That's because it sadly has no in-built way of allowing me to edit waypoint (location) co-ordinates, something that was there in the earliest Forerunners. Having the ability to navigate to a waypoint, but only being able to define one by already being at the place of interest and saving it, is pretty useless. If I'm already there, I don't need to navigate there, d'oh!

As Garmin have shown no interest in fixing this (I did ask), I thought I could write a Connect app to do it myself, which would no doubt be popular with many users of this watch. But no Connect API is available to define or alter a waypoint on the 920XT as far as I can tell.

(I am aware that it is possible to define a new waypoint by converting the lat/long coordinates to fixed-point large integer format and using the 3rd-party FitFileRepairTool to download them to the watch. This is very painful and not something one can do half way up a mountain.)

So Garmin: please allow us to call persistLocation() on the 920XT.

travis.vitek over 9 years ago

There is nothing stopping you from writing up something to take user input, save to the object store, edit, and navigate. If all you want is distance and direction, it is pretty easy. If you want a pseudo-map, it would be more work, but still possible.

Travis

cwartcam over 9 years ago

Thanks Travis. But of course I want to use the in-built map screen that already exists, so that I can see the waypoints when navigating a route (course) or use the 'goto' function. Why on earth should I reproduce all of that when it is already there? The only thing lacking is the ability to store or alter a location in my own program, something already supported in other units. I do not see the difficulty in Garmin allowing it on the 920XT.

As a concrete example, in the past I have done a mountain running challenge which involves following a track, but also reaching a number of specific mountain summit points. Those need to be visible as waypoints while following the course -- which works now, the 920XT will show waypoints on the map screen when following a course.