Instinct - 18.01 Public Release Candidate

Hi,

There is a wrong algorithm coding to calculate the altitude between GPS altimeter and the barometer during activity.

Hi Presi are you running on 18.01? Is this correct elevation in the pic maintained?

Alright, I was probably wrong about feet vs meters.

Anyway, out of curiosity, I checked diagnostic mode on my watch (running Solar Firmware v16.00 + SNS v13.00) and it appears that both altitude and pressure are very stable. Altitude varies by on meter and local pressure varies about 10-20 units per second (not sure what they are) per second. This looks perfectly fine and realistic to me.

So, if you are seeing wrong numbers even on the diagnostic screen, this means the sensor hub code is broken and that "smoothing" they applied in v18.01, leading to staircase-like altitude profile in activities, is not really fix and is at the wrong place.

I really hope some engineer could read all these discussions and get a hint what is really wrong.

Hi,

Yes, elevation shows correct continously along the activity with 18.01. But sometimes, in other cases/days/ativities, it shows wrong (only few meters). Same case with the elevation plot. I don't understand. 17.5 was a disaster. 18.01 is better but with  altimeter/barometer calculation errors. I don't tried other versions.

Settings on my Instinct Standard (dec.2020):

Settings/Barometer/Calibrate options: DEM or GPS (I tried both). Wirst = Left

Settings/Altimeter/Calibrate options: DEM or GPS (I tried both). Auto-Cal. = ON. Sensor Mode = Auto. Elevation = Meters

System/Data Recording = Every second

Activities settings: 3D Speed = ON. 3D Distance = ON. GPS = GPS+Galileo

I'm waiting for an answer by the Garmin Spain support dept.

Thanks Garmin. Not so many negative spikes with this version but still far from perfect. I usually get a negative spike in altitude in the night and then it takes many hours for the altimeter to slowly get to the correct value. Once it is almost there, another negative spike comes and so it goes. So I find myself sleeping 1000 m under the sea. I'm also cycling 1000 m under the sea.

Btw, for most activities, once the altimeter goes below 0, it would be a good sign to autocalibrate.

Please keep working on it.

Hola tengo un problema parecido al que comenta bandit_74, en mi caso tengo la 17.50 y el altimetro siempre marca unos 11000 metros y el barómetro también funciona mal. La temperatura siempre me marca 311 °C. Al calibrar el altimetro marca 704 metros pero a los pocos segundos se va a los 10000 o 11000 metros. No se si volviendo a versión anteriores mejorará. Saludos 

Hola undeleit this ***

paso el archivo Gupdate.gcd a la carpeta garmin de mi reloj pero al desonectarlo del pc no hace nada , por que es esto?

Hola, el en reloj, tienes que tener la opción Settings/Software Update/Auto Update = ON. Cuando apagues el rejoj y lo vuelvas a encender, se actualizará a la nueva versión y se reiniciará automáticamente.