Double Tap to ring bell

Justin 13 days ago

This just doesnt work.. 98% of the time it just shows the Hazard-Home-Bell screen.. Not sure how this even passed Alpha testing..

0 Rogls 13 days ago

Agree with the above it doesn’t work all the time. I like the idea and I am sure it worked better when first introduced in Beta version.

0 aweatherall 13 days ago in reply to Rogls

It might be where you are taping, or possibly the tap speed. I've not had any issues. Try taping a little higher up the screen to avoid the 3 icons in the overlay if you do bring those up. If they are coming up it sounds like the double tap is too slow.

0 Miguel 12 days ago

Same here. I tried this function this morning and it didn´t work most of the time.

0 Rogls 12 days ago in reply to aweatherall

Taking your advice I tested it on a screen where I have no icons just one large map but it’s the same on other screens. It’s very temperamental it works fine then decides to miss behave as described no matter where you tap on the screen. As I mentioned it appeared to work ok in the Beta version.

0 3752400 12 days ago

in my case all works like a charm. Any screen, any layout Fw. tested: latest stable 29.xx (don't remember exactly version) and current latest beta. In any case the screen with Hazard, Bell, Home popups for short time and auto hides after double-tap

0 Rogls 11 days ago in reply to 3752400

Interesting I ended up doing a reset holding power button for 10sec. After device restarted bell now works as it used to all ok

Bad news is after a day or so it went back to being intermittent doesn’t matter where you tap. Tends to work when you don’t need it and not when you do .

0 aarhelger 7 days ago

I was trying this on ride today. It would work sometime but not others. I use 2 custom data fields, WinField and Edge MapFields. The bell doesn’t work if the double tap is within one of the these custom fields. The custom fields seem to be consuming the double tap and not letting it through to the base firmware to ring the bell.

0 mcinner1 7 days ago in reply to aarhelger

aarhelger said:
The custom fields seem to be consuming the double tap and not letting it through

Yes! When the custom data field is enabled for touch functions, the touches do not leave the data field. The same applies to the overlay menu with the “Bell,” “Home,” and “ Hazard” buttons. You cannot access them.

BUT: These data fields do not support double-tapping. Garmin could therefore supplement/modify its IQ SDK to let double-tapping through.

I have raised a ticket:
for modern Edge devices - double tap on IQ datafields do not ring the bell

0 aarhelger 7 days ago in reply to mcinner1

mcinner1 thanks for opening the ticket. I will follow that to see what happens.