Inline Skating STILL neglected but you add gaming?!?!

At this time I'm ready to do anything to get better skating support. can you please elaborate how to add skating activity profile through Connect IQ?

thanks!

Keep in mind that those 3rd party IQ apps not all support the full multiband and multifrequency GNSS and you can't switch back to you watch face or recording will stop.

Garmin often does not listen to user feedback. Posts about problems/bugs are ignored and/or disregarded let alone about requests for new options. Anyhow, you can copy activity in Fenix and call it Inline skating.

Copying and calling it Inline Skating will not make it to be categorized as Inline Skating after it's stored in the system, it will be categorized as what it was copied of, that's manual adjusting after every activity (including possible loss of data when recategorizing).

True. But CIQ apps have many inherent weaknesses (use a lot more battery, GPS as you mentioned, etc), so for purposes of inline skating, I still think it is better to copy activity then to use CIQ app.

Truth is everything but native Inline Skating support is a compromise with it's own disadvantages at the current state of the watches software.

Two things could make it easier.

1: Fix the bug that IQ apps can't record activities in the background (like they used to do on Fenix 5 and 6)

2: Allow us to select any available activity category for copied profiles so they are stored correctly, without manual adjustments afterwards.

BTW as IQ app I would recommend Any Sports: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fea80688-be2b-45e4-961c-abceb72f0d47

It is free, the developer added full multiband/frequency GNSS support. And you can set it up to directly record into all available categories and freely setup up to 6 data-fields on multiple pages.

Disadvantages: maybe more power consumption, no support for IQ data fields in IQ apps, no sport specific metrics like stride length, not going back to your watch face or checking widgets while recording (if you do the recording will be stopped, saved and the IQ app closed).

When copying existing activity profiles and renaming them, the activity will still be stored in the sports category of the original source and use specific metrics of the original profile. Some of those could get lost when you later recategorize it as Inline Skating.

For example if you decide you want to copy cycling you can't record steps, cause that profile disables step counting while it's used. If you copy Ice Skating you won't get ascent / decent data stored, as this sport usually happens on a flat plane, and therefore no height data is recorded.

Great suggestions! That would be welcome improvement. Too bad Garmin does not listen to such suggestions.

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