Support Thread for Simple Walk

Store Link: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/028c5a06-48ed-4a5d-9910-236a7ef10ce0

While this may look like a watch face, it's actually an application to to record a simple walk!



While running, the main screen looks very much like a watch face, with all the typical things, but behind it are three additional screens. (swipe or up/down to get to them)

  • additional data including Temperature (Tempe required), Pressure (on watches with a baro altimeter), Altitude, Pace, Speed, Calories, and Laps (A-Laps means you are using auto laps! - Default is Auto-Lap each 1 mi or km)
  • a chart of your walk, with dots to indicate your start and each lap mark, as well as current heading
  • "Back to Start" with the direction and distance, your current heading, and current lat/lon


When the app starts, it will waits for GPS, and you'll be told to press start when GPS has a lock. Pressing start again pauses the recording, and gives you the option to resume, save, or discard the recording.

A number of things can be changed by using "settings" in Garmin Connect Mobile or Garmin Express, including the bottom like on the main screen. It will show you daily steps, daily cals, daily distance, and on watches that support it, floors and intense minutes.


I want to keep this a simple alternative to Hike/Hike2, so please look at those if you want additional features, as they may already have the feature. (My sig is a link to my other apps)
  • Actually the very initial app that became Hike/Hike2/Simple Walk, started as a vivoactive app (not the va-hr, the original one!)

    For HR, on the va-hr, in settings for the Wrist HR, there are settings under sensors on the watch. You can have a simple broadcast that does that all the time (the watch can do nothing else), or a setting that's to broadcasts while recording an activity. I know the FW transmission of HR works with Simple Walk. Right now I'm running Simple Walk on the vahr and transmitting the HR to Simple Walk on a forerunner 230 for example (I've transmitted HR to an Edge in the past too)

    The ANT+ permission is needed if you use a HRM band or a Tempe, and I don't do any transmitting myself.


    Thanks for the quick reply.

    I removed the ANT+ device from Endomondo and reconnected while your app was loaded and it worked!

    TY


    Wesley
  • Not all metric?

    Great app. Would just like the elevation to be in metric like the rest of the app.
  • Great app. Would just like the elevation to be in metric like the rest of the app.


    What's the setting on your watch for units>elevation?

    If it's not metric, elevation will be in statute. Let me know if it's set to metric but you're seeing statute.
  • Hello

    After the last update the time is incorrect.
  • Sorry about that! A new update is in the app store...
  • Hi, used today for the first time and really liked it, new dog owner so perfect for seeing steps and distance on all these new walking routes. One issue and it might be me, I set the screen to show the activity steps but upon completion I saved and exited. Synced to my phone and whilst I can see the activity and the route/pace/distance etc I cant see how many steps just that activity was. Not a major issue but it would be interesting to know (I also wanted a long walk to see what my average step length was). Am I missing something ?
    thanks Tim.
  • They changed Garmin Connect so that it no longer shows steps during a specific activity, but people haven't been happy about that, so hopefully it will come back, For now, you may just have to note the activity steps before you exit.
  • Hi,

    Thanks for this nice app.

    I would like to submit like a possible update.
    In fact, when I save an activity, it appears in Connect with "Location SimWalk" like "Simple Walk" the name of the app.

    Can an activity be saved with only in its name "Walk" ?

    Thanks
  • Garmin connect is where the the location is added to the activity name. The "Walking" part is because it's recorded as a walk.

    If I recall, in your settings for Garmin connect, you can say you don't want to include the location in the activity name, so it would just show as 'Walking".
  • My explanation was bad, sorry.

    Now I have "MyTown SimWalk" and I woudl like "MyTown Walking"

    It actually well recorded as a Walking activity but the name take the app name.

    Also I don't know where to have only the activity type in the name :(