SRAM AXS POD controller

Hi all,

I have a new Garmin Edge MTB. I had assumed I could use a spare button on my AXS POD controller to page through screens, my left POD is linked to an AXS reverb seat post. I did get the submenu "ANT+ Function Setup" one time but it no longer appears. The "ANT+ Function Setup" didn't let me do anything.

I thought I'd seen people using this on x40/x50 EDGE but a deeper search shows the Garmin documentation is a bit vague and the comments around on the internet don't give much clarity.

Has it worked for anyone?

0 SwissMountainLeader 5 days ago

Just to follow up — I’ve now got it working. So if anyone else is wondering whether this should work, the answer is yes, it definitely can.

I’d tried several times before and never got beyond a screen showing the sensor without any option to assign a function. I even removed and re-added the sensor multiple times with no change.

Yesterday I tried again, and in the AXS app I assigned the top button on my left controller to ANT Function 1 and the top button on my right controller to ANT Function 2. I hadn’t previously assigned two buttons.

Without touching anything on the Garmin, it suddenly popped up asking me to allocate those buttons to functions. I assigned the left one to scroll through screens, then went back into the AXS app and reconfigured the right controller for normal gear shifting.

Having checked my phone, it looks like the AXS app was updated two days ago — although I haven’t updated either the AXS firmware or the Garmin software. It feels very unlikely that the app update made the difference, but it’s hard to know for sure.

So apparently, it either just started working randomly… or assigning two buttons triggers something odd in the setup.

Go figure.