"Eat Alert" not working

I have set up an alert to eat every 30 minutes, but it is not working. Any suggestions on what is going wrong?

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

I too found that I cannot set Custom Alerts. I see the option but when choose one of the choices, I'm interested in setting Eat and Drink Alerts, nothing saves. I have tried resetting the device to no resolve, Anyone have other suggestions?

0 Data over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Where do you set up custom alerts? Connect Web, mobile app? I only have Til sunset/rise, and Hourly (Clock -> Alerts on the watch)

0 ars.fabula over 4 years ago in reply to Data

You can setup various type of alerts (eat, drink, go home, speed, HR freq, etc) from within a standard Garmin activity directly on the watch. I've never used them, so I can't say if they work or not on my F5+

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

This appears to have stopped functioning, I used to be able to set Custom Alerts but that option is no longer available. Using a Garmin Fenix 5x Plus, ver. 14.0 (e036468)

0 RunR over 4 years ago

www8.garmin.com/.../GUID-D68697C7-D321-4B42-8A52-5C9D257B58CE.html

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to RunR

Thanks @alan-campbell, I wasn’t routing that particular way. Instead, I was opening the settings while pre-starting said activity wanting to set an alert for.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to RunR

Riddle me this though, when setting the Custom, Eat or Drink Alert, how come it doesn’t appear to be re-edited?

0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

Although not good I am happy to hear I’m not the only one with this issue. I also noticed that when trying to configure a multi-sport activity the same thing happens...nothing. It’s almost like I cannot “save” the specified settings.

0 RunR over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

I think I now get what you mean, its even more weird:

Custom Alerts were not shown on my watch, just Time, Distance and others.

I restarted the watch and then Custom Alerts are shown in all activities I checked.
When I tried to setup a Custom Alert, nothing is saved!
Then I entered another activity and Custom Alerts are again NOT shown. After a reboot it appears again in the menu.

Other alerts can be saved and changed afterwards. I just checked a time alert in an indoor activity and this works. So a workaround is possible, but of course not ideal. I think for eating you can use a calories alert.

0 Data over 4 years ago in reply to ars.fabula

Thanks - I should have RTFM! I don't see eat or drink, and adding a Custom one does not work (isn't saved, just as the OP mentioned), but I just discovered a super useful feature.