How can I navigate to several destinations along the way or add stops?

You can make a route on your PC and put that as gpx in your Edge?

Yeah, thing is, I don't carry my PC with me on my bike rides. I bought an Edge 830 because it has navigation (I thought) like any other navigation device. I have never ever come across a navigation device or app where you can't route to several destinations at once! Is it really not possible with the built in navigation on the Edge 830?? Am I really stuck with having to put in one destination, then when I reach it, I have to stop and fiddle with my Edge to put in the next one? (Even that won't work for me because sometimes I only use navigation to see my estimated arrival time.) Or put in the destination, and then just go in the opposite direction and have it recalculate 100 times on the way, telling me to take U-turns every 2 minutes until it finally figures out I'm going another way? How about an option to choose between different routes (of roughly the same distance/time)?

Cheers,

Audun

See page 11 of the manual, "Planning and Riding a Course".   You can create a route by specifying locations (by address or intersection or POI or whatever).

That said, I'm always surprised when people expect these cycling computers to act like a car nav system.  It isn't.  It's a multi-sensor integration platform for displaying and recording cycling information, along with certain navigation features.  It isn't a delivery route planning app, or whatever it is you are trying to do with it.  

The 830 is advertised as having navigation features and they should provide a decent level of navigation. My 830 is no better than a 20 aught Garmin car unit. I expect better nearly 20 years later.

Does your 20xx car nav capture cycling dynamics and show you Strava segments?  Didn’t think so. 

Just because it has other features doesn’t mean navigation shouldn’t be better. When a friend had a mechanical I looked for a bike shop POI and was given the nearest as 800km away in Germany. Navigation is a solved problem for decades and the Edge series should be better at it, including the multiple route stops the OP mentioned. 

Thank you, that was the feature I was looking for! Would have been nice if you could just easily add a stop along the way when in the middle of navigating though, like if you get hungry and want to find a shop or cafe nearby without cancelling navigation to your destination.

That said, why are you suprised that people expect a device to actually have the features advertised by Garmin?? Bikepacking and biketouring are becoming more and more popular, and having a device on my handlebar to navigate on a trip is EXACTLY what I expect a device to do when it's advertised as such by the company selling it! What is the difference between being in an unknown city in a car or on a bike? Don't you need exactly the same navigation features?

And this is why I upgraded from a 520 Plus to a 830 (even though the 520 Plus has some navigation), to get full featured navigation with addresses and POIs like you do in your car navigation.

Until now I have been using the app Sendpoints to quickly whip out my phone from my pocket and send locations to the Edge, but using a ConnectIQ app on the Edge requires you to end your current activity, which is extremely annoying.

And having the phone on the handlebars to navigate is a no go because of battery life.

Cheers,

Audun

Exactly! An "Add Stop" funciton in the navigation would have been much easier and more intuitive than having to create a course to do multiple stop navigation.

Cheers,

Audun

I wrote a lengthy reply, but this crappy forum software ate it.

Anyway, I think you should review the 830 features/specs on the Garmin site -- it describes the features it has, and it doesn't claim to be similar to a car nav system (though I can imagine that a person might wishfully interpret that information).  This thing is designed to collect data and track performance in real time, with certain navigation aids.

Maybe the Karoo 2 will have better nav features but that product is still vapor-ware.

audunth said:

Until now I have been using the app Sendpoints to quickly whip out my phone from my pocket and send locations to the Edge, but using a ConnectIQ app on the Edge requires you to end your current activity, which is extremely annoying.

Check out my IQ app. It lets you enter the sendpoints number and has an option to use "pluscodes" too. There are some stand-alone phone apps (like Guru maps) that will generate the long pluscode. Sendpoints is nice but it required internet access (which you might not always have).

It's available as a widget (which can be used while recording).

sites.google.com/.../grouteloaderiq