New activity profile on my edge explore 2 ?

Is it possible to create a new MTB activity profile on my edge explore 2 ? I only see 3 profiles, is this missing on this model ?

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bikepc01 over 1 year ago +3

Indeed you cannot add your own profiles as @tmk2 states. The only things you can change are the name and the color of the profile. If you change the name of the OFF ROAD profile to for example MTB it will…
bigest over 1 year ago +2

You can't. Explore 2 has three predefined profiles: road cycling, gravel biking and indoor training. You can rename it, but you can't change it's type. There is feature request for adding this ability…
joakim.faiss 7 months ago in reply to bigest +1

This is obviously particularly ridiculous for a GPS, with one of the profiles being "indoor" and impossible to modify. Who needs an indoor GPS?

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0 joakim.faiss 7 months ago in reply to bikepc01

Yes, maybe. But I totally agree that existing profiles should be editable on all properties. I don't need the indoor profile and I am stuck with only 2 usable profiles. Nothing else than a marketing trick to get some selling arguments for the more expensive devices.

0 bikepc01 7 months ago in reply to joakim.faiss

You can send 'ideas' to Garmin here: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

The more people post their proposals, the greater the chance that Garmin may implement them. Theoretically?

Edit:
This issue also has been reported in the Edge Explore 2 Beta Forum as a Bug Report in software version 20.18.
Enroll for the Beta Program and if you vote up, you help to increase it's weight.

0 Hell4 3 months ago

The indoor one can be made to work outdoors, switch on the GPS. It will still log and indoor but that can be changed in Connect and Strava. It's an inconvenience but would be good to make ones own.

0 joakim.faiss 3 months ago in reply to Hell4

Weel, for me, it isn't an inconvenience, but a miss when you name your unit "Explore"... Anyway, I have got another much more important issue with a Marq watch, and I have been stayin away from Garmin products for a while.

0 Wrednydran 2 months ago in reply to Hell4

It's not just an inconvenience. On "indoor cycling" mode connected lights are getting turn off. It is heavily misleading because the widget show them as turned on, you don't even know you are riding "stealth". Its not even possible to turn them on manually without disconnecting them from the device.

0 joakim.faiss 2 months ago in reply to Wrednydran

Well, fed up with Garmin anyway (I have another easy to solve, but impossible for Garmin, issue with a Marq watch) and I am using my phone with Ride with GPS app at the moment. And ordered a Karoo 3 to use soon…

0 PrzemoRide 2 months ago

Garmin add MTB profile