Smart Bike Lights (Data Field) / Bike Lights Control (Widget)

Can you help me please, I installed the DataField last night only and still new to the exercise with my phone (setting up downstairs in the garage and sending the code through my email upstairs to my PC).

I have a Edge 1030 that is paired with a Varia UT 800 in front and a Varia RTL 510 as taillight. This is the code I extracted from GC:

#0,73413136##0,73404416##7,6:Varia 800!2,:-1,Off:0!1,High:2!1,

I would like to get this:

RTL 510 :

Default light is OFF. (again, I guess this what other people asked as well)

Radar - activate Day Flash - when Speed > 8km - and a car is approaching from behind

Brake - activate Solid - when speed > 7km - and I use the brakes

Please note I put these random numbers for my learning curve if I could figure out later on my own what you will send me

Also, one more thing. Last night I installed this DataField and it was there in the bike computer. Today I did something unusual...I turn OFF the Edge 1030 (after many many months for first time, always was on sleep/standby), charged the battery, turned the Edge back ON, and .... the DataField was not there only a blank field screen, I had to insert from the IQ back again.

Both my GC and the Edge FW/software is up to date.

Here is the configuration that matches your requirements:

#0,73413136#4,3!NIGHT:2:3:0:0Es-600,r0C]1.38889!DAY:1:7:0:0C]2.22222!:1:0:0:0D=1#0,73404416#5,3!BRAKE:2:4:0:0C]1.94444A[-10!RADAR:2:7:0:0I]-1]0C]2.22222!:1:0:0:0D=1#7,6:Ion 800 RT!2,:-1,Off:0!1,High:2!1,Medium:2!1,Low:4!1,Day Flash:7!1,Night Flash:6#5,4:Varia RTL 510!2,:-1,OFF:0!1,DAY FLASH:7!1,NIGHT FLASH:6!1,SOLID:4#0::#0:0#123!:123!#B2713#4#2#0#0

bigHUN said:

the DataField was not there only a blank field screen, I had to insert from the IQ back again.

That is strange, in case the data field would crash an "IQ" icon would be displayed on the screen, a blank screen should never be displayed. If that occurred only once and you are not able to reproduce it again, then maybe Edge temporarily glitched. 

Thanks. Is there anywhere some (programing language) instructions/manual what these numbers means,

or how to edit manually on the spot (instead of copy paste from email),

instead of going to github - Lights Configurator ??? The configurator looks pretty robust and for my 62 yo eyes I need to sit in front of a larger PC screen vs just doit on droid cellphone.

Thanks,

Which part of a code defines "Brake - activate Solid - when speed > 7km - and I use the brakes"

I have seen earlier somewhere in a thread that you proposed a "Brake - activate Solid" when the speed changes let say 30% with negative value - would that be -30%  ?? where to replace it if you could just highlight that number in the code?

bigHUN said:

Is there anywhere some (programing language) instructions/manual what these numbers means

The configuration value is not meant to be edit manually, for editing you need to copy the value into the "Existing configuration" input in Lights Configurator and press "Parse" button, which will load the configuration and then you can edit it.

bigHUN said:

how to edit manually on the spot (instead of copy paste from email)

You can edit it on PC and then use Garmin Express instead Garmin Connect Mobile to set the value, which will avoid copy pasting it from email.

bigHUN said:

with negative value - would that be -30%  ?? where to replace it if you could just highlight that number in the code?

The above configuration is set to -10%, but you can easily change that in Lights Configurator:

Thank you for explaining.

My initial thought was that the code you gave me was a " txt " which I could just edit the specific numbers/letters inside the Garmin Connect mobile app on that specific related line/field.

I will try the Garmin Express, my Edges 1030 is syncing on wifi when inside a house, or better I can connect it to a PC with a cable...

What does Error 4 mean?

Hi Maca88,

I have found cause of the Smart Bike Lights data field malfunctioning: this is due to a conflict with another data field (Garmin Tempe Visualizer) I installed recently, after having purchased a Garmin Tempe sensor to remedy to unreliable Edge 1030/1030+ internal temperature readings.

Garmin tempe sensor is always active and, unfortunately,  not natively supported by Garmin Edge devices (unexplainable, as many Garmin things !), so a specific CIQ data field is required.

Disabling Garmin Tempe Visualizer is not enough: you need to re-pair Garmin Varia to restore Smart Bike Lights proper functioning.

And if I re-enable Garmin Tempe Visualizer, Smart Bike Lights re-start to not working properly again.

It would be interesting if the you and the other programmer would cooperate to understand the root cause of such this conflict; I would like to keep both, but for now I must decide which of the 2 data fields to keep and which to discard.

Smart Bike Lights is very powerful with no doubt, but, in these days, I have realized that wrong/missed control of radar light might be quite dangerous (light switched off when instead it should be on…).

Error 4 means that the configuration is invalid, this can happen when using a configuration from a different device. Here you can see all error code: https://github.com/maca88/SmartBikeLights#error-codes