How do I get waypoint alerts?

2522004 said:

Any idea how I can turn on waypoint alerts for all navigation?

I've dropped a couple of forum links for you to read.  They should help answer your question, or more likely create more questions

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/fenix-6-series/192222/next-waypoint-and-distance-to-next-showing-distance-to-next-turn?pifragment-1292=1#935771

https://forums.garmin.com/outdoor-recreation/outdoor-recreation/f/instinct-solar/273244/distance-to-next-waypoint

Thanks for your response. 

Does this mean that I have to add course points in Garmin connect in order to get alerts on my Instinct 2 watch. 

And it is not possible to do this in Komoot or Garmin Explore?

2522004 said:

Does this mean that I have to add course points in Garmin connect in order to get alerts on my Instinct 2 watch. 

Your question is seemingly simple, but unfortunately the navigation/alert functionality is not as intuitive as it could be (it is getting better).  

I'll start off by saying that I don't use Kamoot so I can't speak to its method of creating a course and how you get that course to your watch.  So maybe a fellow Kamoot user can chime in...

If your goal is to get familiar with navigation/alert functionality of the watch, the easiest place to start is with the Course creation tool in Garmin Connect.  Add a few Course Points onto the Course, save, and then "Send to Device".  Navigate the course using your activity of choice.  You should get an auditable and visual (course point icon) alert when your are arriving at the course point.  You should also get turn alerts when approaching turns in your course.  Note that the Instinct does not yet visually support all Course Point Icons.  You'll not see the icon, only a blank space on the screen.  The audible will still fire off.

Thanks for your helpful answers and apologies for delay in getting back to you.

Firstly just to confirm that Komoot integrates very nicely with the watch and with Connect. On the watch it’s easy to select planned routes in Komoot which then become courses. As this had me confused for a while, for anyone else finding this thread see below.

After some research and experimentation, I’ve settled on the following workflow.

Subscription to plotaroute.com (GBP 18 for one year)

Create a route in Plotaroute and mark it as a favourite, this automatically sends it to Garmin Connect.

Garmin Connect syncs to the watch as a course and has turn by turn alerts created by Plotaroute.

Courses saved as activities automatically load to Komoot as completed Courses.

I’m really happy with the above, works really well.

I experimented with creating routes in Garmin Connect but creating points seemed additional work and having limited footpaths make the maps unusable. I was initially pleased with Garmin Explore but have uninstalled it as it does not really fit with my workflow.

I find Garmin’s approach providing three different apps: Garmin Connect, Garmin Explore and Connect IQ confusing and strange.

Using Komoot on Garmin Instinct 2 watch

Install Komoot App in Connect IQ App

Create planned route in Komoot

Press GPS button on watch and select Komoot

After short delay while routes load, scroll down and select the route

Click Start (I had assumed this would start navigation , it doesn’t, it makes the route available in Courses.

Then select navigation and courses in the normal way.

2522004 said:

I experimented with creating routes in Garmin Connect but creating points seemed additional work and having limited footpaths make the maps unusable

Yes, the lack of "hiking" maps is a short coming of GC.

2522004 said:

I was initially pleased with Garmin Explore but have uninstalled it as it does not really fit with my workflow.

I have found Explore to be a convenient way to manage "Collections" of Courses & Waypoints that are sync'd to my watch.  For example, if I have a collection of Courses/Waypoints for a certain park I'm visiting, I can enable that collection to sync with my watch on the fly, then turn off the Collection when I'm done with the hike and the whole collection is removed from the watch.  And it's the only Garmin app that will store Waypoints.

2522004 said:

I find Garmin’s approach providing three different apps: Garmin Connect, Garmin Explore and Connect IQ confusing and strange.

I agree.  

Dan.Boilermaker said:

I have found Explore to be a convenient way to manage "Collections" of Courses & Waypoints that are sync'd to my watch.

Yes, Explore is very good in that respect but I don't really want to store routes in multiple places as it gets very confusing. However it could be useful for storing just waypoints. I'll reinstall it and try with just waypoints.