Data Field: Eat! Drink! Reminder!

This is the support thread for the data field "Eat! Drink! Reminder!"

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Are you also forgetting on your long run to eat and drink? Not any more... Set the alarm settings and be notified by vibration and/or a beep (vibration and beep not available on some devices).
You have the option to set 5 different alarms.

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Download: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/7449127c-65ba-470b-954c-3a5fa93376c3

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peterdedecker over 8 years ago +1

I dislike some things about the native alarm functionality:
* you can't set a custom message on a 735xt
* I have to press a button to acknowledge the alarm (when I can avoid it I don't want to be pushing…

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Dr Phil over 8 years ago

Can't speak for all the devices but I have this on my 920 natively. Alert set every 20 minutes with a message to eat/drink. Sometimes, simple is best ;-)

peterdedecker over 8 years ago

I dislike some things about the native alarm functionality:
* you can't set a custom message on a 735xt
* I have to press a button to acknowledge the alarm (when I can avoid it I don't want to be pushing buttons)
* when you acknowledge the alarm with the start button you stop the activity... so you have to press up or down button to acknowledge the alarm
* I would have to re-create alarms in all activity profiles again, where I can now place the data field in several activity profiles

So I think my version of the alarm is better :) :
* custom alarm message
* no button pushes required
* usuable in multiple activity profiles

Former Member over 8 years ago

installing

I installed this on my vivoactive HR> I see it that it is installed via phone garmin connect . But I do not see it on my device.
I have synced it several times. I got it to finally work under in an activity. Is there anyway to use without turning on an activity

peterdedecker over 8 years ago

hi this app is a datafield so you have to customize your activity profile settings
on my fr735xt this is activity settings -> data screens -> screen 1 -> choose layout -> fields -> connect iq -> eat drink reminder
on your vivoactive hr this might be slightly different, in case it helps this is the owner manual of the vivoactive hr: http://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/vivoactive/EN-US/GUID-C6CF3D4D-4671-4EAD-95D7-83F52C2B51CD.html

Datafields can only be used within activities so you can not use it outside activities (it's not possible to write background processes in Connect IQ)

peterdedecker over 7 years ago

Released v1.1:
* added support for vivoactive, fr935 and approach s60

peterdedecker over 7 years ago

Released v1.2:
* when the alarm time coincides with an (auto)pause event avoid that the watch keeps buzzing and chirping (stops reminding you after 3 seconds)

peterdedecker over 7 years ago

a feature request.... for biking I eat solid food, drink sport drink, and take salt. I do all of these at different times... for example over a 2hr ride:
00:15 - Drink
00:20 - Salt
00:30 - Eat
00:45 - Drink
00:40 - Salt
01:00 - Eat
01:15 - Drink
01:30 - .... you get the idea.
I drink ever 30 minutes, salt every 20 minutes, and eat every 30 minutes. however I START each one at different times to keep them staggered throughout the ride.

so the request is to have a place to put the start time as well as the interval... so for "drink" I would start at 00:15, with an interval of 00:30. make sense?

Is that a feature you would entertain implementing?

Released v1.3:
* implementation of feature request: added the possibility to specify an alarm offset (the offset postpones the first time the alarm goes off)

Former Member over 7 years ago

the custom message duration is too short, any way to customize it?

peterdedecker over 7 years ago

At the moment the alarm time is hard coded to be 2 seconds.
I've added it to my todo list to add a setting to the next version so that you can make this alarm time longer.

peterdedecker over 7 years ago

the custom message duration is too short, any way to customize it?

Released V1.5:
* added configuration option to determine the duration of the alarm (defaults to 2 seconds)