To next course point" data fields behavior (Bug or Intended?)

BeNnO!

Hi everyone,

I am experiencing an annoying and inconsistent behavior with custom Course Points and navigation data fields on my Garmin Edge.

I manually added several custom course points (e.g., water stops, summits, checkpoints) to my track using a .fit file. Then, I configured a custom data screen with the following three fields to track my progress to the next checkpoint:

Distance to next course point

Ascent to next course point

Time to next course point

The issue:

When Turn-by-Turn (TBT) is ENABLED: "Distance to next course point" correctly shows the distance to my manual course point. However, both "Ascent to next course point" and "Time to next course point" completely ignore my custom course points and strictly display the ascent/time to the next automatic TBT turn generation. This makes them useless for tracking a summit or a remote checkpoint.

When Turn-by-Turn (TBT) is DISABLED: "Distance to next course point" still works, showing the distance to my next manual course point. However, both "Ascent to next course point" and "Time to next course point" just show blank lines (---), completely failing to fall back on the available course points.

Is this a known firmware limitation/bug across the Edge series, or is there a specific combination of native data fields (or export settings) that allows a user to see the Ascent and Time/ETA remaining exclusively to the next manual Course Point without TBT interference?

Thanks in advance for any insights!

  • 0

    This is a know issue.

    Ascent to Next Course Point - Currently reports the ascent to next device generated TBT and not a user defined course point

    There actually is no "Time to Next Course Point", 

    Time to Point - is the time to the next TBT or Course Point. Whichever is next.

    There are two way to get time to the Next Course point. One is disable TBT, then Time to Point will be the next course point (Not practical for most users). The other is to switch to the course point page.

  • 0 in reply to aweatherall

    As I thought. Do you know if there is some customized data field that allows to know remaining ascent and distance to my personal course point?

    I can understand that for the distance there is no problem while the time is available on the course point page. But for the ascent?

    Furthermore: are you aware if it is possibile to have also the course point notes or only the main name?

    Thanks