Is it possible to pair external sensors for specific workouts only?

I use a Garmin Tempe sensor and a Stryd foot pod, which connect to the watch whenever I start an activity.

Now, when I do a health checkup or weight training, it wouldn't need to pair the sensors. Is it possible to specify in the settings of the activities whether or which external sensors should be coupled?

That would be great.

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NAVIEDIT over 3 years ago in reply to Dan.Boilermaker +2

Yes, I also know this workaround. But it would be great if you could explicitly select the sensors in the activity settings.
Is there a thread: 'feature requests'? If so, I'll just ask about it.…

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0 Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago

No. You can disable the watch from searching for the sensor in the sensor settings menu, but this is a global setting not a per-activity type setting.

0 Dr Phil over 3 years ago

While the watch might be looking for sensors when you select an activity, oNly the sensors needed for the activity are used when you start the activity

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

True that the Tempe data is not displayed in the Health Checkup data. But why connect to a sensor in the first place that is not going to be used/recorded for the particular activity?

0 NAVIEDIT over 3 years ago in reply to Dan.Boilermaker

That's exactly what I mean. My running shoes with the foot pod and the Tempe are on the ground floor, I do my weight training on the upper floor. This results in the watch repeatedly reporting that Tempe and Stryd are pairing before losing the connection again due to being too far away. In GC, for example, the temperature curve constantly jumps between the clock temperature and the staircase temperature.

0 Dan.Boilermaker over 3 years ago in reply to NAVIEDIT

You will have to disable the sensor in the sensor settings prior to or during your workout.

0 NAVIEDIT over 3 years ago in reply to Dan.Boilermaker

Yes, I also know this workaround. But it would be great if you could explicitly select the sensors in the activity settings.
Is there a thread: 'feature requests'? If so, I'll just ask about it.

0 C.sco over 3 years ago in reply to NAVIEDIT

NAVIEDIT said:
This results in the watch repeatedly reporting that Tempe and Stryd are pairing before losing the connection again due to being too far away.

Best solution I've come up with is to just leave the sensors somewhere central in the house, so the signal doesn't drop out. Fortunately my treadmill is a pretty good spot, so I just leave my running shoes w/ stryd on the treadmill, and stick the Tempe in the treadmill's cupholder. Then whenever I'm doing an activity anywhere in my (somewhat small) home, I only get the initial connection notification, but no subsequent dropouts/reconnects.

Would be nice if each activity had a sensors menu where you could pick what you wanted it to use, but unfortunately I don't see that happening any time soon.

If you don't want to use ANY sensors for certain activities, maybe try Airplane mode and see if that turns off ant+/BLE - if so, might be a decent workaround, rather than toggling everything off one-by-one from the sensors menu.

It's really only a problem for Tempe and Stryd, because they don't have any way to turn them off easily. Other sensors like RD pod, HRM-Pro, etc. go into a sleep mode when you're not using them, but Tempe and Stryd are always broadcasting.

Maybe another workaround would be to store your sensors in some sort of RF-blocking case, like this: https://www.amazon.com/Faraday-Protector-Signal-Blocking-Shielding/dp/B07W94QLKM/

0 NAVIEDIT over 3 years ago in reply to C.sco

C.sco said:
Maybe another workaround would be to store your sensors in some sort of RF-blocking case,

Yes, that was my idea too. Unfortunately, a first attempt with a box made of aluminum sheeting was unsuccessful.

The watch still connects - even across a floor.