New Kayak activity doesn't track strokes/paddles count/rate?

Just updated to 9.2 and did a Kayak activity but was surprised not to see any data on stroke count, rate, statistics, etc. What's the point of calling it a Kayak activity if all I get is time, distance and speed, hr, etc. its just another timed activity. I was expecting more, am I missing something?

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jetdog9 over 6 years ago +2

This is kind of ridiculous. Why add a new app for a paddling activity without cadence or total strokes? Especially when the technology is clearly in the watch?

WHIFF...
Mintaka over 4 years ago +2

Agree. Having a kayak activity without having the ability to add any stroke fields to the activity is quite ridiculous. And the fact that you complained about this 2 years ago and nothing has changed is…
Karovaldas over 4 years ago in reply to Mintaka +2

Just to make sure, you know that you can get the cadence to work if you use SUP activity instead. Just making sure. Garmin's decision to disable cadence on a dedicated KAYAK activity that takes twice as…

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0 par64 over 6 years ago

I found the same thing. I tried to add some more meaningful screens or data fields but they aren’t there for this app. Also disappointed.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

I noticed the same thing, looks like it's back to modifying the SUP app.

0 jetdog9 over 6 years ago

This is kind of ridiculous. Why add a new app for a paddling activity without cadence or total strokes? Especially when the technology is clearly in the watch?

WHIFF...

0 Karovaldas over 5 years ago

Does this new activity type allow to set speed/distance in nautical units?

0 Mintaka over 4 years ago in reply to Karovaldas

Sadly no. If you go into System --> Units you can change between miles / kilometres or feet / meters but nautical miles or knots are not available. It would be a pretty easy data field to program however.

0 Mintaka over 4 years ago

Agree. Having a kayak activity without having the ability to add any stroke fields to the activity is quite ridiculous. And the fact that you complained about this 2 years ago and nothing has changed is even more ridiculous.

0 Karovaldas over 4 years ago in reply to Mintaka

Just to make sure, you know that you can get the cadence to work if you use SUP activity instead. Just making sure. Garmin's decision to disable cadence on a dedicated KAYAK activity that takes twice as many strokes as SUP is puzzling.

0 Former Member over 4 years ago

It is too bad that the official kayak app is so limited. I am now going to try the uPaddle (universal Paddle) app from the store. It looks much better.

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

I tried uPaddle but the stroke cadence is not working very well. Most of the time it is showing as 0 and sometimes I do get some values. If I look at the graph afterwards it is like it is calculating a stroke value than 2x nothing then again 1 stroke value then again a few times no stroke values etc. I am sure I paddled for long time continuously (I have a goPro video to back this up), so it is not working reliable for me :-(

[EDIT]: Reading on the forum, it looks like the Fenix 5 has a firmware issue that prevents a correct paddle stroke detection. Anyone knows this is true? And any change this will ever be corrected?

0 Karovaldas over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

If you need cadence, then you need to use SUP activity. I also use Row, SUP, Kayak this’d party activity from Garmin Connect IQ. No issues with cadence from Fenix 5X Plus.