In the attached photo I've got my GPS track from a surf session below and the recorded waves above. I caught several waves this session which you can see as the dark straight lines in the Strava screenshot. But Garmin missed all of them.
Recorded on a 2S solar surf.
given that this is specifically a "surf" watch I'm surprised how bad the wave detector is. Am I doing something wrong?
It is because they need to put a maximum speed limit, normally it is set at 45kmh.
They have to do like all applications, put a preselection of the type of wave you catch, small, medium or large, because…
The problem is not in the wave count, but in the bad representation of the maps. It's something very easy to fix, but they don't feel like it.
GARMIN FIX IT!
Those are roughly the settings I use for Surf Tracker 2. They work. I have no idea what Garmin is doing for wave detector but it's not working.
The native app should copy the Surf Tracker 2 algori…
The problem is not in the wave count, but in the bad representation of the maps. It's something very easy to fix, but they don't feel like it.
GARMIN FIX IT!
I think the wave count is bad to. Look at these crazy numbers:
Those are roughly the settings I use for Surf Tracker 2. They work. I have no idea what Garmin is doing for wave detector but it's not working.
The native app should copy the Surf Tracker 2 algorithm
