Exclusive fenix 5X feature now in garmin iOS app for all of us - YAY

One of the exclusive features in fenix 5X - to generate a course on a map is now in the garmin IOS app, which we posted and feature requested back in the beginning of the year in this forum. Thank you garmin for listening in!!!

https://itunes.apple.com/se/app/garmin-connect-mobile/id583446403?mt=8
Check the changelog and try go to course and you can create a new one, pick a distance and then touch on the map where you want the starting point.

Of course, on the 5X you still get the map but on 5/5s/3hr/3 you get turn by turn directions on the wrist which is still pretty nifty.

I will try to use this feature to get new routes at home and when i visit new cities.

0 rickj2903 over 7 years ago

Ive used the "course" option today but the watch hasn't picked up that I was using a HRM -Tri, footpod or Tempe so I have no statistical data from these devices, which I always get when I use the "run" activity. Do I need to tell the watch that I am using these add ons? if so how and where do I need to do this? I chose course from the activity options but normally choose "run", should I be looking elsewhere?

0 mcbadger over 7 years ago

What I do is choose "run", wait for GPS lock, then hold Up > Navigation > Courses, select the course (and then re-select Run if it asks for an activity type at that point).
That way you get your normal run fields plus map and navigation fields, and my watch does pick up the sensors.
I haven't tried starting from "navigate"; surprised it wouldn't pick up Tempe or HRM-Tri as thsoe work for everything but swimming, but I could imagine it wouldn't pick up footpod or bike sensors if it wasn't aware that you were running/cycling.

Just done a test; starting from navigate, I do get the Tempe detected.

0 rickj2903 over 7 years ago

What I do is choose "run", wait for GPS lock, then hold Up > Navigation > Courses, select the course (and then re-select Run if it asks for an activity type at that point).
That way you get your normal run fields plus map and navigation fields, and my watch does pick up the sensors.
I haven't tried starting from "navigate"; surprised it wouldn't pick up Tempe or HRM-Tri as thsoe work for everything but swimming, but I could imagine it wouldn't pick up footpod or bike sensors if it wasn't aware that you were running/cycling.

Just done a test; starting from navigate, I do get the Tempe detected.

Thanks, I will give that a try, I do have a temperature reading so it may have connected to the Tempe, rather than taken the reading from the watch which I assumed it had.