Floor Climb

Thanks man. I tought it was better a detecting floors, atm pressure changes and some accelerometer should be enough. Hope firstbeat develops a better algorithm and tryes to sell it to Garmin, lol

Garmin = *** software. This morning I installed Garmin Express on my laptop and since that moment, CPU was always at 20%. Had to uninstall it or the poor laptop was going to melt.

fmercado said:

I tought it was better a detecting floors, atm pressure changes and some accelerometer should be enough.

It actually works pretty well, as long as you follow the hints. Even on +100 floors sessions the failure is just a floor or two, sometimes a bit more, but getting better with the drill.

fmercado said:

This morning I installed Garmin Express on my laptop and since that moment, CPU was always at 20%.

Well, many computers will be at 20% even with just the virgin OS and some basic application like browser and email client running. Currently my notebook is up since more than 2 days (more precisely 3690 minutes), and in that time Express used 12 minutes of CPU time, which makes 0.3% of the total up time. Better told just 0.08%, since the CPU has 4 cores. And it takes just 40Mb of RAM, which is really nothing in comparison with most other applications.

I do not know why it caused higher load in your case, but it may be worth localizing it, since without Express you'll have hard time keeping Instinct up to date. Also, you need Garmin Express to keep the ephemeris (EPO) GPS file up to date. Without it, GPS will soon cease to work properly and promptly.

If keeping Express really causes problems to your notebook, simply shut it down when you do not need it (right click the icon in the task bar, and select Quit), it cannot cause any load when it does not run.

fmercado said:

Do you work for Garmin?

No, I don't. Garmin employees have all user names beginning with "Garmin-" here on the forum

I've been using Garmin Vivoactive since it first came up, also some edges on my bikes, the Instintct and never used the Express. I just tried it yesterday to force re create the EPO.bin but I think it is supposed to be created via the sync with GC also, am I right?

Yeah, It was like a retorical

fmercado said:

I think it is supposed to be created via the sync with GC also, am I right?

Not sure whether it is supposed to sync with GC too, but the support document on EPO tells you need Garmin Express, and it matches with what I can observe with my Instinct - the EPO file updates anytime I connect with Express instantly, while I could not observe any update through GC alone, yet.

Well, I never used express before and my EPO was stalled but 2 weeks old, so, something outside Express should have created it, I'll see what happens