Switch off out of zone warnings

Reading through the forum it appears GARMIN still has NOT implemented a switch to remove out of zone warnings despite it bothering many people. I am happy with any solution to a problem that I would consider is quite common:

I have a bike with a power meter, but do regular indoor workouts. When the Garmin Edge 840 connects to the smart trainer it almost always picks the power meter of the bike. Even though Garmin controls the smart trainer at a given power for the workout I get constantly out of zone warnings (as the power meter shows fluctuations). So it seems the only solution I came across is to switch of audio warnings altogether (which seems like a terrible solution), or I remove the power meter once I train indoor and add again when I ride outdoor.

It renders the 840 basically unusable at this point, such that I ended up using my phone and an external app to control the workout and let the edge device simply record.

I cannot understand why garmin does not:

1) Implement a switch to eliminate out of power zone warnings

2) Provide a switch to choose between power meters

Both of these are much more useful than the other changes the made lately (whatever group ride features that they implemented which are much more complex!)

0 8171373 4 months ago

I have the same problem on my Edge 840 and agree entirely. I use trainerday workouts and basically the out of power zone warnings are every few seconds -- to the point of being completely useless. Actually, worse than useless since they pop up even when you are navigating some other menu and cause irritation/slowdown. I too have turned off the audio since it is otherwise beeping at me non-stop, even for workouts that have like 10 minutes of constant power. An alternative that might increase the UI complexity would be rather than a simple on/off switch for the warnings would instead be a % threshold and time tolerance. For example, if the power is outside the target +/- X% for Y seconds, then warn, otherwise do not (where X and Y are user configurable). To some degree I expect this is a function of the indoor trainer's ability to track a target power given user power and cadence fluctuations -- all trainers will have some error but some will be better than others and the ability to configure X and Y would enable users find one that works for their trainer.

0 3779130 4 months ago in reply to 8171373

I can only agree, I wish Garmin would pick up the advice it gets from its customers. In the meanwhile I found some other solution worth sharing, which is not completely annoying, at least on the Edge 840. One can deactivate the bike power meter on the pull down menu, at least this is a setting that can be easily reversed and doesn't take a long time to access. Obviously a setting like % would be useful in any case (without having to alter the workout file for every workout) or simply a switch to turn off the message altogether.

0 krz 4 months ago

There is a switch to disable out of zone warnings. It's in activity profile settings under Alerts and Prompts.