Data field: Heart rate with zone

Former Member over 9 years ago

This data field enables you to see both heart rate and zone at a glance. The heart rate zone is displayed as a colored background, using colors yellow, blue, green, orange and red for zones 1 to 5.
If you use the data field full screen or upper half screen on a (semi-)round device, it shows a heart rate gauge.
You can choose to show heart rate as bpm, %HRR or HR %Max.
You can set up to 5 heart rate zones and you can set them however you want them (same way to set up as in Garmin Connect).

Some screen prints:

You can set your zones in the User Settings section of Garmin Connect Mobile or Garmin Express.The setup is the same as setting your zones in Garmin Connect, based on %HRR. Unfortunately the order in which the settings appear might be different.
If personal zones are not set, default will be set based on your age. Currently it's technically impossible to retreive your zones directly from the device or Garmin Connect

To be able to set your zones, your device must run at least Connect IQ version 1.2 (you can check this in the About section of the System settings on your device). If you have any problem setting the values, please leave a comment on this forum and I'll try to answer all your questions.

You can get this data field here.
To determine your resting heart rate, you can use my Resting Heart Rate data field.

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v3.0:

Added gauge when displayed big (full width, at least 89 pix height);
Support for French, Italian and Spanish;
Dropped support for Connect IQ 1.1.x (in favor of the gauge)

v2.0:

Added user settings to allow user to set heart rate zones;
Text color is now based upon the background color, to maximize readability;
Added support for Fenix3, D2Bravo, Forerunner 230, Forerunner 235 and Forerunner 630

v1.0: Initial version

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Setting up the zones in Garmin Express (recommended)

Go to "Manage Apps", a list of all your apps is shown;
Look for the Heart Rate with Zone data field and press the "..." besides the data field name, a page is shown where you can change the settings;
Change the settings to the appropriate values:
- Resting Heart Rate: fill in your resting heart rate. If set to the default of -1, it will get the value from your connect profile
- Zone 1 %HRR: lower bound of zone 1 as % heart rate reserve (HRR). HRR is the difference between your maximum and resting heart rate
- Zone 2 t/m 5 %HRR: same as zone 1. Make sure that the values are incremental, because the data field will show the first zone that fits and if they are not incremental, you'll get unexpected results. If you want to use less that 5 zones, set the values of the zones that you don't use to 100. More than 5 zones is currently not supported. If you do want more, please leave a comment and I might be persueded to add more.
- Max Heart Rate: fill in your maximum heart rate. If set to the default of -1, your maximum heart rate will be estimated based on your age
Press "Save" to save the changes. The new values will automatically be send to your device.

I you want to check whether the new values are saved to your device, you can simply go to the settings page again. Garmin Express will always load the settings directly from the device.

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Setting up the zones in Garmin Connect Mobile

It's possible to set up the zones in Garmin Connect Mobile (GCM), but in the current version the settings might be displayed out of order. Therefore using Garmin Express is recommended.
The following explanation is based on GCM for Android. GCM for iPhone should be (almost) the same.

In the menu go to "Garmin Devices";
Select your device from the list;
Select "Connect IQ Apps";
Select "Data Fields";
Select the Heart Rate with Zone data field;
Select "Settings" (if your device does not have Connect IQ 1.2 installed, you'll get a message "An error has occured");
Change the values (as described in the Setting up the zones in Garmin Express section above);
Select "Done" to save the values to your device

Same as with Garmin Express, you can check the settings by going to the Settings page again.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Can't see on 920xt

Downloaded the app, did the HR settings in Garmin Express, synced the watch successfully, but don't see any change on the watch. Is there a step I'm missing?

Former Member over 9 years ago

Downloaded the app, did the HR settings in Garmin Express, synced the watch successfully, but don't see any change on the watch. Is there a step I'm missing?

You need to add the data field to a profile. How to do this is explained on page 14 (Customizing the Data Screens) of the owner's manual. If you set the field full screen, you'll get the gauge layout, else you'll get the zone as a background color.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Doesn't work on vivoactive

This app was intended for (and thoroughly tested on) Connect IQ 1.2, which is currently being rolled out to the different devices.

I tried to make it backward compatible with CIQ 1.1, but it seems there's a bug. I'll investigate this evening (Europe time) and will try to make a fix.
You can also install the latest beta firmware for your Fenix, which you can find here. This version has Connect IQ 1.2.1 and should have no problem running this data field.

Hi I have tried to download several times but it does no show up on the watch just on iconnect app, is it too advanced for vivoactive?

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi I have tried to download several times but it does no show up on the watch just on iconnect app, is it too advanced for vivoactive?

You can run this data field on your Vivoactive, but you must be aware that it's a data field, not a watch app. This means that you can use it as a data field inside the default running, walking or cycling app.
How to add a data field to an app (the running app for example):

Start the running app;
Tap the menu button
Select "Data Screens"
Select a screen and tap on the pencil
Tap on the field where you want to have the data field
Select "Connect IQ" from the menu
Select the data field you want to add
You'll see the data field as part of the screen
Hit the back button a couple of time until you see the screen where you started

On the Vivoactive it's only possible to view a data field on 1/3 of the screen size. Because of this it's not possible to use the full screen layout of the Heart rate with Zone data field. In stead it will show the heart rate zone as a background color.

hskagerlind over 9 years ago

Setting for entering zone levels as "% of LTHR"?

Since Garmin introduced detection of LTHR on F3 I've been using it for setting my zone boundaries.
However - since I have to set the zone levels for this datafield as "% of HRR" it has become just a little to complicated to convert the F3's "LTHR zone levels" to "%HRR".

Any posibility for adding an option for using/entering the zone levels as "% of LTHR" instead?

Former Member over 9 years ago

Not working anymore

After the update 6.5 on Felix 3, this awesome data field stopped to work well, don't give the right HR zone.
I need to get 140bpm to get out of zone one.
Could you fix it?

Former Member over 9 years ago

After the update 6.5 on Felix 3, this awesome data field stopped to work well, don't give the right HR zone.
I need to get 140bpm to get out of zone one.
Could you fix it?

I can't explain that behavior. Sounds like either the settings file got corrupt or you're using the default settings and the age/resting heart rate on you watch somehow got changed by the update.
If you change the settings with GCM or GE, it should fix this. If not you can remove and then reinstall the app. If that doesn't help, please let me know and I'll further investigate the problem.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Not working with El Capitan and 920XT via Garmin Express

Hi TeunMo,
I downloaded your Software via Garmin Express (4.1.17.0) on my mac (el capitan - German) and tried to sent on my Garmin 920XT.
It doesn't work. If I click on the three points to get to the settings, a new window opens completely empty and white. Nothing else happens and Garmin Express seems to freeze. I had to terminate Garmin Express. Then I have access to the other apps, again.
The heart rate Monitor is not installed on the 920XT.
Any ideas what happens here?

fbifone over 9 years ago

Heart Zone

Very good data field.
You can enter the option to display the heart rate zone with decimals?

Former Member over 9 years ago

Full screen layout of the Heart rate with Zone data field for VIVOACTIVE

You can run this data field on your Vivoactive, but you must be aware that it's a data field, not a watch app. This means that you can use it as a data field inside the default running, walking or cycling app.
How to add a data field to an app (the running app for example):
Start the running app;
Tap the menu button
Select "Data Screens"
Select a screen and tap on the pencil
Tap on the field where you want to have the data field
Select "Connect IQ" from the menu
Select the data field you want to add
You'll see the data field as part of the screen
Hit the back button a couple of time until you see the screen where you started

On the Vivoactive it's only possible to view a data field on 1/3 of the screen size. Because of this it's not possible to use the full screen layout of the Heart rate with Zone data field. In stead it will show the heart rate zone as a background color.

VIVOACTIVE DOES SUPPORT FULL SCREEN DATA FIELDS in firmware 3.50. Please, update data field: possible to use the full screen layout of the Heart rate with Zone data field in VIVOACTIVE.