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Garmin body battery update whitout using watch

Michiel193
over 4 years ago

Is it possible to have the body battery metric updated using a edge 530 and hr strap but leaving the Garmin smartwatch at home?

Am I missing metrics or does physio true up syncs everything as expected.

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  • +1 over 4 years ago

    Doesn't seem like it. Frustrating. I wish there was, one of the main reasons I bought edge and garmin watch was to synchronize the data from multiple devices. From Garmin's FAQ:

    What if I train with another Garmin device that does not have Body Battery?

    We recommend wearing your watch along with your other Garmin device to ensure continuous Body Battery measurements. Information recorded from a device that does not feature Body Battery will not be included in the Body Battery calculation.

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trinityalper92

    Thanks for helping! Seems the right but not the supposed answer...

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to trinityalper92

    I confirm that it is exactly as you say, I always wear FR945 on my wrist and log cycling activities with edge 130, both with physio true up activated, I unload activity from egde on GC and then synchronize 945, to see the load also on GC you have to synchronize the clock a second time

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I realize the answer has already been provided by others, but you will need to continue to wear a wearable that supports the Body Battery feature while riding with your 530 in order to see this metric updated. The Edge series of devices does not support this feature. 

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

    Blake any chance that the body battery feature will be added to edge devices in the future? Or at least data gathered from edge devices can be incorporated into the body battery calculations? Thanks!

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to trinityalper92

    +1 Good question!

    Any news on this,  ?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to trinityalper92
    trinityalper92 said:
    Blake any chance that the body battery feature will be added to edge devices in the future? Or at least data gathered from edge devices can be incorporated into the body battery calculations? Thanks!

    I have a feeling the answer is no. I'm pretty sure BB is calculated on the device itself. When you use a Garmin watch with BB, you have the option to choose it as "Preferred Activity Tracker". This means this is where all the BB calculations are done. For a bit, I had two different Garmin watches, each with BB. However, the BB calculations don't pass/sync from one watch to another, unlike other Garmin "TrueUp" data. Even if Garmin put BB onto cycling computers, those calculations would only be valid for when you used that device.

    To keep my BB valid, I follow what

    Garmin-Blake said:
    I realize the answer has already been provided by others, but you will need to continue to wear a wearable that supports the Body Battery feature while riding with your 530 in order to see this metric updated. The Edge series of devices does not support this feature. 

    I wear my watch device, even if I use my Edge device.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Pinoooo

    +1 on the reply.  All the Body Battery magic happens in the watch.  I too didn't want to wear the watch during mtb, but I've gotten used to having it on now, in addition to recording on the 530.  Wearing it was distracting at first, just feeling it being on my wrist, but I've gotten used to it.  Wearing it slightly tighter helped.

    Some additional notes.  These are to the best of my knowledge, I think I'm correct on the below:

    1. To make it more accurate than the wrist based heart rate measuring, I've paired my HRM chest strap to the watch in addition to the 530.  Optical wrist based heart rate is less accurate when at high exertion levels bouncing around on a bike.
    2. With the HRM paired, you don't actually have to wear the watch, it could be in a hydration pack, anywhere with you that is receiving the BT signal from the chest HRM.
    3. You don't need to record the activity with the watch, it just needs to measure your heart rate real time during the activity.

    Now my Body Battery reading is continuous and not missing data due to activities.  My Instinct watch transitions to the HRM chest strap automatically and seamlessly.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to Cranky K.

    In my experience, Garmin watches don't maintain a persistent connection to a HRM external sensor when you're not recording an activity. Mine will connect for a while, but then disconnect after a few minutes and switch back to using the less accurate wrist optical sensor. Am I doing something wrong? I guess I could start an activity on the watch just for the sake of maintaining a connection to the HRM, and then discard i the activity at the end instead of saving so as to not get duplicate activities in Garmin Connect. 

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to nradov

    Sorry, I've no experience with connecting the chest HRM for long periods outside of an activity.  I only put on the chest strap HRM right before starting an mtb activity.  As soon as I'm finished I remove the chest strap and let the wrist optical take over again.  From what I've read and experienced, the wrist optical watch sensor is accurate enough if not doing an activity with lots of body movement.  When I've left the chest HRM on for up to 15 minutes after the activity it does seem to stay connected to the watch.  When removed, I see the watch take over and the heart rate is similar.