hi all,
I've been using RTL 510 for almost 2 years now.
setup RTL 510 --- connected with Fenix (5X+) 6X on the handlebar.
fenix watch series seems that cannot deal with both - Light and Radar sensor at the same time
the two sensors appear when you try to connect new sensors.
so basically you have two choices:
- add both Sensors (Light first)
- add only Radar
if you do not add both sensors separately to Sensors, RTL will enter every time at power off/on (long press button) in pairing mode (purple led flashing) - easy to overcome, a push on the button will return in normal operating - but is a sign RTL miss something.
if you add firstly as Light
- you have the menu for Individual/Auto and can choose the Light mode Individual/Auto
- on Individual you can set Taillight in the three modes
you add now Radar
- Light sensor (and menu) disappears
- (but if you want to delete Radar you have to do it twice so somehow Light "anchor" remains there)
- watch controls both Light and Radar
- when the activity starts, the RTL light starts and radar connects automatically
- when you end the activity, Light off, radar off
- you can use the Radar with the light off (circling the light mode from button short push)
- I start now a bike/MTB activity
- the mode light RTL starts is the mode that was (set in Light sensor previously or changed by button) at the moment you paired the Radar - let's call it default light mode
- Radar connected, I start the activity and I change the Light mode from the button
- after a while, the light mode is back to de default one.
- I do not like this behaviour as I do not want during the night to have "day flashing", nor during day "continuous mode", I want to change the light mode.
the logic is to split the roles:
- to connect only as Radar (as the manual says)
- control the light mode manually, from the button
- of course, you accept the "enter every time at power off/on (long press button) in pairing mode (purple led flashing)"
but is a catch here:
- the watch does not control the light mode, so you have to turn the light on/off manually (short push the button)
- if the light mode is off (not powered off but circle by short push the button ....full power steady --- night flash ---- day flash ---- off --- full power steady---etc ) the Radar sensor does not connect
- as soon as you enter a light mode other than off, Radar connects
- this mode, as is a manually controlled mode, remains during activity
- but at the end of the activity, the light mode remains, so you have manually turn it off
I do not like this behaviour. I would like the watch starts the Light as soon as connects as Radar, and the Light mode to be the one I want (from menu) or button., so a combination from the two connection.
Do you have another way to control the light mode when the display unit can't deal with both light and radar sensor?
as I was thinking to switch to 515, any thought are more than appreciated.
thank you,
robert
