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Foot pod connecting in various Widget views

7567726
over 5 years ago

Viewing various widgets (Heath Stats, Body Battery, Heart rate) seems to cause the watch to search for and connect to any paired Foot Pod without fail. In this case a bluetooth speed cell. My only option is to remove the battery or turn off the sensor in options. I don't have a Garmin version to test as they seem to be going for double the price currently.

VA4S current firmware (4.0).

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    If you are using "Sensors&Accessories", just going there will initiate a connect.  The ANT footpod should go to sleep after a bit if there's no movement, and shouldn't wake up until there is movement.

    Is there some option on the sensor itself to go to sleep after some time?  Sounds like an issue with the sensor and not the watch.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    Yes I accept this behaviour in Sensors for pairing/settings and require it prior to starting Activities, but not whilst looking at a Health Stat widget this is not an activity in itself requiring a foot pod.

    Difficult to say if it goes to sleep, but it will reconnect in as little as 30seconds if you back out of the widget all the way and go back in or view a different widget.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 7567726

    That's not how a garmin foot pod works.  It goes to sleep after a while and doesn't wake up until it's moving, and while it's asleep, it won't connect.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    OP said he had a BLE foot pod. It is quite possible that BLE foot pods operate on a different principle.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    Maybe it does that too. It is made by Dynastream also, but it still doesn't answer the question of why the watch is effectively wasting battery searching, connecting to the foot pod and notifying with screen+vibration in a purely informational widget.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tmk2

    My Milestone with BLE goes to sleep if there's no motion - like the Garmin ones.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 7567726

    AFAIK a widget may use a sensor for some purpose, so I guess the the system connects to all available sensors no matter if they are really used or not. I bet the energy expenditure for searching for sensors is minuscule compared to power used by the widget itself.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 7567726

    It's not so much searching as it is listening.  And for some widgets, it will try to find external HR if one is paired, so it's already listening

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to tmk2

    Yes that makes sense the example of a HR strap in the HR widget, but what is the relevancy of the foot pod in the HR widget? Other widgets don't listen for irrelevant sensors.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 7567726

    I guess that once the sensor subsystem is enabled, then all available sensors connect, because why not?