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Weather Widget via Satellite

Josh
over 2 years ago

It would be great if and team could set the weather widget up to update via satellite without need for cell phone and cell service. If I am hiking in the mountain and don't have cell service, I don't have weather.

Thank you!

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Great idea! I think, this option makes sense in my eyes, but is this possible for the Instinct 2 to receive weather datas by satellite?

    @Garmin - Chris

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to DMHas

    I feel like my inreach mini has weather update capability and its not cellular/wifi? 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Josh

    From the Owner's Manual

    InReach devices can receive weather for your current location in two ways:

    Active Weather: While your GPSMAP 66i device is connected to your smartphone or to a Wi‐Fi network and has an active internet connection, it can receive detailed weather information from the internet. This feature provides a four-day forecast and live graphical weather maps.

    inReach Weather: You can receive weather information through your inReach subscription. Your device can send an inReach message to request basic, premium, or marine weather forecasts. You can receive weather forecasts for your current location, a waypoint, GPS coordinates, or a location you choose on the map.

    To receive weather on an InReach device outside of cellular connection you need to have a current subscription. InReach will then use the Iridium satellite network (I believe) to get weather information.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Exactly as written by   and by @philipshambrook, the feature is already available. You just need a dedicated receiver (an InReach device) and a subscription for that data, since the weather data is not being broadcasted by the GPS (or Glonass / Galileo) satellites. Garmin watches (or any other GPS devices) can only receive the signal from GPS (better told GNSS) satellites. The watches are not a general receiver of any satellites you wish, and Garmin also has no control over the GNSS satellites, so cannot force them to send any other data than they were constructed for.

  • +1 over 2 years ago in reply to DMHas

    The option is not possible. To be possible, it would require a monthly GPS data subscription, an antenna that will not currently fit inside a watch yet, and a GPS communication constellation such as Iridium that we currently use for our inReach emergency GPS products.

    Great idea but - highly unlikely to happen any year soon until GPS data communication becomes a lot more affordable like it did in the cellular industry 30+ years later after we all started using cell phones.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

    : Thank you very much for your answer!