Garmin - let us set a speed threshold to stop recording activities!

It's Garmin Connect for iOS v. 5.4.2.1

I've never seen the Android version, so hard to say how much they differ.

Thanks for that. Much appreciated.

I am on Android. In the Connect app, when I select an activity, and then edit activity, I can select "trim activity".

It's not the same if you go back and trim the distance.  All the other data gets messed up seeing you hike at 45 mph with a heart rate of 75..... 

If the watch could stop at 10 or 15 mph it would let you save out with an accurate record.  It's such an easy fix.  And would stop me from discarding the record of many outings

Because most of the time I only off load the watch every week or 10 days.  To go back and edit is ridiculous.  It should prompt you at car speeds.  Wtf wouldn't you want this option?  

2469206 said:

Because most of the time I only off load the watch every week or 10 days.  To go back and edit is ridiculous.  It should prompt you at car speeds.  Wtf wouldn't you want this option?  

Uh what? You said that “trim the distance” messes up all your other data (I still have no idea if you meant editing the activity distance or actually using the Trim Activity feature that was suggested in this thread), so I asked you if Trim Activity works for you. And you respond by saying you don’t want to do it bc it’s inconvenient? Kinda moving the goalposts there chief.

Trim Activity was designed for problems like this (forgetting to save your activity), so that’s why it was suggested to you and that’s why I wanna know if it works. If it doesn’t work you should report it to Garmin Support.

I also wanted to know bc I’ve used it and I’ve never seen it mess up my data.

Like multiple times in this thread you’ve complained about having your data messed up or “discarding the record of many outings”, but there’s multiple ways for you to avoid that:

- train yourself to at least pause your activity when you get in your car

- use auto-pause like others suggested

- use the Trim Activity feature which was literally made to solve this problem. If you have time to go back and discard activities that are messed up, you should also have time to use Trim Activity, assuming you actually care about the data

2469206 said:

Wtf wouldn't you want this option?  

I don’t rly care either way since I would never use it as I don’t have your problem and I don’t know anyone else who does, but I kinda doubt Garmin will implement your idea. It would just increase the complexity of the product to solve a problem which already has a solution (Trim Activity). And your problem is only one example of a reason ppl could forget to save their activity.

And think of the new problems it would cause:

2469206 said:

How hard is it to make the watch trigger when exceeding walking or biking speeds?? 

Ok so now you want Garmin to figure out a reasonable max speed for each kind of activity (walking, running, biking, maybe others)? What if you go for a walk and you sprint to beat a red light? You want the watch to automatically pause then? What if you didn’t notice it auto-paused? Now you will lose all the data you would’ve recorded until you notice that the watch is paused, and you’ll be mad at Garmin for this.

What if you’re biking and some GPS error causes the watch to think you went really fast for an instant, and it triggers auto-pause? Same problem as above. Oh and what if you’re sprinting on your bike and you briefly go faster than you would normally drive?

Are you starting to see all the issues and complexity here? Maybe you’re realizing it’s not as simple as you think? (Def not as simple as auto-pause when you’re moving very slowly / standing still.)

If you really want this feature, you can go ahead and request it here:

https://www.garmin.com/en-US/forms/ideas/

Or you could ask someone to make a Connect IQ data field which will alert you with a tone and vibe when you go over a certain speed.

As a matter of fact, I already have a CIQ data field which can do this - AppBuilder 5.

Use the following settings:

- Label: Too Fast!!!
(or whatever you want)

- Formula: alert(speed_raw gt 13.5); speed

- Display format: Auto (if you want to see speed) or Pace (if you want to see pace)

With these settings:

- the data field will display your pace (e.g. min/km or min/mi) or speed (e.g. km/h or mi/h). your device unit settings determine whether km or miles is used

- when you go faster than 13.5 m/s (roughly 30 miles per hour), the data field will beep and/or vibe (once). If you then go slower than 13.5 m/s, the watch will beep and/or vibe again when you go over 13.5 m/s. In other words, the alert resets whenever you go slower than the threshold

For this to work, beeps/vibes have to be enabled in your system settings.

If you wanna tweak the threshold, change 13.5 to whatever you want.

e.g. According to google, “60 mph in m/s” is 26.8224

If that’s not good enough for you, well you can wait for Garmin to implement your idea (good luck with that) or you can ask some other CIQ dev to make a better app for ya