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[Idea] Live track via SMS?

Former Member over 3 years ago

Live track is a great idea and works fine.

But I think about a small improvement: could it be SMS instead of e-mail to send to our recipients? I mean SMS with alink like in e-mail?
Great thing is, that Garmin service sends an e-mail itself, personally I don't have any e-mail account configured in phone, but SMS could be sent via our phones.

What do you think? Would be simple, or, even better, we could choose in Garmin Connect Mobile whether to send SMS or e-mail

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Al P over 3 years ago in reply to Former Member +1

They haven't provided necessary code for application developers and those programmers from Garmin can not write a code, that makes Garmin Connect App send SMS with Live track link.

But they will definitely…
Former Member over 3 years ago in reply to Al P +1

Bull's eye :) That's a point
Scott over 3 years ago in reply to Ɛpsilon +1

This is true, and works pretty nicely. It is, though, only available to paying subscribers.

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0 Seensoul over 3 years ago

It should be no problem to include this in Garmin Connect Mobile, at least for Android. After installation you user allows app to access to contacts, phone, etc, It would be great to have choice to send LiveTrack link via e-mail or SMS. It's easier for recipient to click on link than first to check e-mail and next to click link.

tr3climber said:
Most (if not all) SMS numbers have an equivalent email. For example, for AT&T phones, the email is "phonenumber"@txt.att.net. Just use that instead of the person's real email id. Their service provider will then send them an SMS.

In Europe, Poland, it's no provider with such feature.