Anybody know if Garmin plans on extending CIQ to the dog tracking products like the Alpha? There are several things that would be nice to implement that Garmin won't.
Like it would be really nice to be able to have my dogs location show up on my watch. Even if Garmin didn't provide a direct route to communicate between the devices, I could still upload the dog's location to a server every couple seconds using CIQ on the Alpha and then retrieve it on my 630 every few seconds. This assume CIQ on the alpha would support full apps and access to the communication API's.
2nd, I currently have a GEO fence at 50 yards and 100 yards (the devices beeps when the dog enters/exits each of these ranges). But there is no way to set different tones. So the 2nd tone could either mean she is now 100 yards away, or closer than 50, and no way for me to know without pulling up the unit and looking at it. The plastic clips used to attach it to your waste are pretty cheap and I wear through one every 3 months. This would reduce by an order of magnitude how often I have to unclip the unit.
Even if they bring CIQ to these products, they'd still need to extend it a bit for access to the dog position data.
For me, it's just keeping track of my husky. But I couldn't imagine all sorts of more complex apps that could be useful for hunting dogs, which these devices were actually designed for.
