Yesterday I sat down with my Instinct and inReach Explorer + and tried to get them to communicate with no luck. It's not really a feature that is critical to me, but I was interested in seeing how it worked considering I happen to have both devices. I could see it being handy if I strap my inReach on a backpack and don't want to take it off to manipulate it, although the same can be accomplished with my phone.
I followed what instructions I could find, basically add the iR widget, select, and it tries to pair. BT is enabled on my iR however it is paired to my phone. I attempted to add another device on the iR but the Instinct still never saw it, and the iR never saw the Instinct. I disabled BT on my phone to keep it from interfering, but attempts with and without the phone's BT in the picture all failed.
The only thing I did not do is remove my phone as a paired device on the iR. I'd rather not really as I have Earthmate on there, and I'm having no issues with the phone and iR communicating via BT.
Now I had initially seen some conflicting info on if the Instinct communicated solely with the inReach Mini or if the Explorer handheld units also worked. All the documentation I've found from Garmin generically says "inReach device" thus not excluding the Explorer.
Anyone know some silly reason the two won't communicate, procedure I'm missing, step I skipped? As mentioned, it's not a critical feature to me, but I did think it was cool feature on the Instinct, and would like to mess with it. Who knows, it might actually be very handy.
