How do you combine Edge with watch?

Hey everyone, after 3 years of a Garmin Edge (the last I bought is 540), I've recently got my first Garmin watch, FR 265. They both feature daily suggested workouts and Garmin Coach Plan. I like them both for many things, except one: the ecosystem. I don't know if it's just me, but the Edge and the FR don't seem to communicate well with each other. Before you ask, I have both Physio True Up and MoveIQ turned on.

Yesterday I was doing my second workout of a Garmin Coach Plan. I recorded the activity with the Edge (suggested workout from the plan), but while training the FR sent me a notification saying that my recovery was being delayed because of active day, while obviously it was just the evening cycle that was affecting my recovery. After the training session, does the recovery estimated from the Edge add up to the one on the FR or, after synchronisation, the FR understands that I was training and just shows me the recovery of the Edge (plus eventually the one left on the watch BEFORE the adjustments during the activity)?

And another problem is that I don't understand if the FR knows that I have completed a workout from the plan with the Edge, in fact after the workout I could still see it suggested on the FR, instead of telling me that for that day I was done.

In general, how do you combine the watch with the Edge? Do you use both of them during activity or just the Edge? Do you use Extended Display Mode?

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  • Hi! There's no need to record on both devices,  it'd be a mistake.  Actually daily suggested training stays the same even if you have completed it, or a y other workout, because that suggestion is kinda "ftom the morning" and it doesn't update during the day. It just works like that. 

    Two devices will interconnect only via so-called "Training status", that is your training load chart/curve. Both devices will contribute to that chart with workouts you do on each of them during the day. So devices don't really "talk" to each other, but see that chart/curve only (it's stored on Garmin server). There's no any other interaction between devices.

  • Just to note, I'm talking basen on my experience with Edge 1040 and Fenix 6, and my wife's 540 and FR 745.