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over 1 year ago

Bug on Forerunner 965: (info has :distanceToDestination) always false

I tried to create an estimated total time (ETT) datafield based on the remaining distance. However, the "distanceToDestination" of the Activity.info does not work on my Forerunner 965. The expression (info has :distanceToDestination) is always false, even when activity is started and a navigation course is set. I expect this expression to be true, and the value info.distanceToDestination should return the value shown in the field "Navigation-Distance Remaining"  in meters.

The same happens for distanceToNextPoint, it should return the value shown in the field "Navigation-Distance To Next"  in meters.

In the simulator it works fine, once I start the activity with "Simulation - Activity Data - Start" and set a destination with "Simulation  - Set Navigation Data - Distance to (m) to 100 - OK"

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  • 10 months ago in reply to RoWe

    As far as I can tell, no one at Garmin actually looks at the bug reports.  If they do, there certainly isn't any urgency to fix bugs -- even bugs where advertised functionality is completely broken.  I will say, they Fenix/Epix team seems to be more responsive.  Why there are two completely separate teams/orgs working on the Forerunner versus the Fenix watches is completely crazy.  There's no (good) reason why that shouldn't be one team, and one codebase.

  • 10 months ago

    Is there any chance that this bug will be fixed at some point? It's just really annoying when you don't know whether work is being done on it or whether you should continue to write bug reports. current fr965 beta v18.12 the error is still there :-(

  • 10 months ago

    same in fr965 v18 Beta

    My hope is dwindling that something will happen on “forerunner”. You probably have to switch to “outdoor” at some point. From what you read, their software/support team is a lot better equipped.

  • 11 months ago

    the same her in my datafield DRNG

    (Toybox.Activity.Info has :distanceToDestination) results in True in Simulator, but on my device fr965 (17.26) results in False

  • over 1 year ago

    Still exists in the latest beta (17.18)