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10 days ago
CIQQA-3459

bug: no way to set elevation unit on vivoactive 5

This probably should also be reported in the vivoactive 5 forum, but since that's not monitored by Garmin employees, I'll try here.

A user of one of my apps reported that they can't change the elevation unit from feet to meters. I told them to do it in the system settings (my app uses DeviceSettings.elevationUnits). But it turns out that Garmin left that possibility out from vivoactive 5.

The only settings (both on-watch and via Garmin Connect) are:
distance, weight, height, temperature, pressure.

Note, it's not a mistake, it's height, with cm or inches, and not elevation or altitude that's supposed to be meters or feet.

This is vivoactive 5 with FW version 14.15

Yes, there's no barometer in va5, but it doesn't matter, because the watch displays the correct elevation based on GPS, just in feet.

See also: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/healthandwellness/f/vivoactive-5-series/418980/bug-no-way-to-set-elevation-unit-on-vivoactive-5

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  • 11 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Another simple test for a baro is to see if ActivityMonitor has floors.  No baro, no floors as a baro is required for that.

    If you have an app where elevation shown on the garmin is important, you probably want to have a device without a baro to test on,  I imagine something like a fr23x can be found really cheap if you don't want to buy a va5

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  • 11 days ago in reply to FlowState

    Another simple test for a baro is to see if ActivityMonitor has floors.  No baro, no floors as a baro is required for that.

    If you have an app where elevation shown on the garmin is important, you probably want to have a device without a baro to test on,  I imagine something like a fr23x can be found really cheap if you don't want to buy a va5

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