Garmin R10 Does NOT work with Outdoor Nets

Hi Rob, I have tired all of those. The only time I can seem to get accurate readings is with E6 with 10,000 ft elevation on. Its seems like this is a software issue with HTH. Other apps seem to play nicer with the R10, whereas HTH seems to be consistently short. The developers may need to update the app to account for the issues in HTH. I'm no expert, but this is a software issue, its not the unit, and its not the set up, its the software. 

Garmin-Rob, I have just spent the last 3 days trying every single suggestion that has been made on the numerous forum threads I have read about this issue.

Will you be following up at all on the responses I am getting. It doesn't seem to matter how many times you receive feedback, that feedback tells you the 'resolution' has not worked. So why are you not listening to what seems like hundreds of people telling you it has not worked? 

It is nice that someone from Garmin gets involved on the odd occasion. But if you are not listening to those that are replying to you, what is the point? How many people have actually responded with 'Ah, I hear what you are saying. Thanks it worked'?

Let me answer for you as I did a quick count up... NOT ONE! ZERO! NADA! IT DOES NOT WORK.

Here's an idea though. Most people here are golfers. They know how far they hit clubs in general. So why the hell don't Garmin build in an 'adjust' button to tell the software to add say 20% on? At least then the unit can be used accurately for people to help their games. 

I am one of those who also owns a Garmin watch. Incredibly accurate. But this R10 thing that only ever got rave youtube reviews from professionals is so in accurate it is paintful to play - literally. (anyone else dislocated a shoulder trying to get over 200yds???)

Please stop ignoring the responses and get your bosses to sort it could ya? Cheers.

Garmin-Rob, I have just spent the last 3 days trying every single suggestion that has been made on the numerous forum threads I have read about this issue.

Will you be following up at all on the responses I am getting. It doesn't seem to matter how many times you receive feedback, that feedback tells you the 'resolution' has not worked. So why are you not listening to what seems like hundreds of people telling you it has not worked? 

It is nice that someone from Garmin gets involved on the odd occasion. But if you are not listening to those that are replying to you, what is the point? How many people have actually responded with 'Ah, I hear what you are saying. Thanks it worked'?

Let me answer for you as I did a quick count up... NOT ONE! ZERO! NADA! IT DOES NOT WORK.

Here's an idea though. Most people here are golfers. They know how far they hit clubs in general. So why the hell don't Garmin build in an 'adjust' button to tell the software to add say 20% on? At least then the unit can be used accurately for people to help their games. 

I am one of those who also owns a Garmin watch. Incredibly accurate. But this R10 thing that only ever got rave youtube reviews from professionals is so in accurate it is paintful to play - literally. (anyone else dislocated a shoulder trying to get over 200yds???)

Please stop ignoring the responses and get your bosses to sort it could ya? Cheers.

Hi Garmin Rob and Garmin Community

Saying the R10 accurately measures distance in an outdoor net setup is simply not true, unfortunately.

No matter what I try, it doesn’t work outside hitting into a net. I took it to the range and it was perfect, within +/- 5 yards. Hitting into a net with 8’ back and 8’ to net doesn’t work for distance. Period. All irons are 20-30 yards short. Shot shape and direction still works well.

I’ll be incorporating a more robust hitting bay system that uses a screen and a projector instead of a net and my iPad — if the R10 doesn’t work with that set up, I’ll have to buy a SkyTrak or something that works as intended.

Thanks for trying to help. If you hear of any software solutions or fixes that actually work, please reply to this thread.

The really frustrating thing is gofers know their own golf. And if they know they are hitting it 250 but only getting 200 on the R10, surely it is a simple fix to add a discrepancy factor into the software instead of trying to blame the user for not setting things up correctly. 

As a test, I actually removed my leveller and then compared those results to putting the whole unit and leveller 2 feet in the air!!! Guess what, same distances. So all this finite art of setting it all up I feel is just a guise! As for the 'calibrate' button they included. Seriously, has anyone really hit that button and found things improve? Just a red herring. Like me touching my nose and saying I lost weight.

Yes I am frustrated!

Nope. I've even noticed at the range today my distances were all over the place. After outdoor range sessions I'm seriously considering selling my R10. Hitting same club a few yards away today example one reads 140yds 23L. Next 168yds 4R. Yet were talking balls landing 10yards away from each other using the same club. This was with Garmin Range on an Android phone.

GW 61yds Carry 69 total dist carry Deviation 3L 

GW 44yds Carry 46 total dist carry Deviation 0R

GW 55yds Carry  58 total dist carry Deviation 3R

In reality i was hitting at a flag approx 50yrds out. All balls landed on green just a few yrds away from each other around the pin within 5-7 yds......... I didnt have my rangefinder on me to tell the pins exact distance.

Once you go up to lower loft clubs it just gets even worse and more inaccurate. Also did not register approx 20 balls out of 95.

Seriously considering ditching these cheap Launch Monitors and biting the Bullet on a SkyTrak Launch Monitor.

Indoors is an absolute gongshow. the distances are always 20+ yds short of what outdoor range numbers show.

I returned mine for a full refund. Had it about 2 weeks and no problem returning it. Think I'm just gonna give monitors a miss as most others are too expensive and geared towards high spec gaming PCs or IOS (actually played e6 connect on IOS and was not impressed at all). Good luck and I hope Garmin eventually take the inaccuracy hitting issues seriously.

I had this same issue for a long time with my outdoor net set up and was going to buy Awesome Golf (bc that gave decent numbers even with my net).  I recently made two changes that seemed to help a bunch (at least when using E6, have not tried with Garmin Golf).  I raised the R10 about 3" off the ground using a block and I bought a large fabric target for my outdoor net, so that 75% of the hitting area is covered with fabric instead of just fish netting.  My set up is 8 feet to net and 8 feet to R10. 

Not perfect, but I was able to recreate similar numbers as Awesome Golf without shelling out another $300.  You may still need to set the E6 elevation to 1,000 or 2,000 feet to get it just right, but it's not as artificial as setting it to 10,000 and seeing every shot turn out like a wormburner.  With this set up my shots were flying a pretty realistic trajectory.

Still love my Garmin R10 for the range and am glad I could cobble something together for the outdoor net that still provides good training feedback.

Totally agree shots do not register properly on outdoor nets, total waste of money, Garmin need to change there description 

I have all the correct distances but it doesn't work, read other people's issues too. Feel robbed by garmin.