Acknowledged
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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  • 10 days ago

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

    Hmm both of our solutions have the flaw that they only work since CIQ 2.4.0 (mine) or 2.1.0 (yours). 

    There's only a handful of watches which have CIQ less than 2.4.0, and only one device which has CIQ > 2.1.0 and < 2.4.0 though.

    If one were handling this at compile time and they really cared about figuring out exactly which devices have a baro (under the assumption that elevation units are not available in settings for all the non-baro devices), I guess at least some of hte devices would have to be hardcoded

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    > Ok, GC still has the option to not use corrected data

    Yeah I think the option was only removed from the app.

    It's par for the course that the app version of a service often has fewer features than the corresponding website. (These days it's unlikely there's a website at all, for a lot of services/tools newer than ~10 years.)

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  • 10 days ago

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

    Hmm both of our solutions have the flaw that they only work since CIQ 2.4.0 (mine) or 2.1.0 (yours). 

    There's only a handful of watches which have CIQ less than 2.4.0, and only one device which has CIQ > 2.1.0 and < 2.4.0 though.

    If one were handling this at compile time and they really cared about figuring out exactly which devices have a baro (under the assumption that elevation units are not available in settings for all the non-baro devices), I guess at least some of hte devices would have to be hardcoded

    --

    > Ok, GC still has the option to not use corrected data

    Yeah I think the option was only removed from the app.

    It's par for the course that the app version of a service often has fewer features than the corresponding website. (These days it's unlikely there's a website at all, for a lot of services/tools newer than ~10 years.)

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