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Garmin 255 + Egge 540

olt1771
6 months ago

Good day.

I have a big and logical question, sorry for my bad English, I'm translating through a translator, I hope it will be clear what I'm talking about.
I recently bought 540 Edge and encountered a stupid, in my opinion, error or drawback. What am I talking about?
Why are active calories spent during a workout with 540 not counted in GC?
What do you mean? For example, before a workout on 540, I spent in GC (1800 passive + 200 active = 2000 kcal). I sit on a stationary bike, turn on 540, spin for 2 hours, spend 1000 kcal (let's say), after synchronization I don't see them... that is, I have 2000 kcal left? Where are my 1000? It should be 1800 + 1200 = 3000 kcal after training, this is logical, I bought Garmin specifically, I thought that synchronization here is at the highest level.

The 2nd point is again related to this, I turn on 540, I train, my pulse during training, for example, is 140 average, the watch is on my hand, the pulse on the display is 80 (I already found out that when training is not going on, the pulse sensor works in economy mode and it does not display the pulse very accurately) oh well, after I trained and synchronized 540 with GC, it is logical that my pulse during training on the pulse graph should be updated to what it was during training, but no) I do not see this, this is also very logical, why is this not implemented?

I did everything according to the instructions, I gave priority to the device 255, because Garmin itself writes that if you have a watch + computer, then give preference to the watch.

Garmin, tell me what is this?!

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  • 6 months ago +1
    olt1771 said:
    I bought Garmin specifically, I thought that synchronization here is at the highest level.

    Sadly, the correct synchronisation never worked with Garmin. I have the fr255music, edge 530 and…

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  • 0 6 months ago

    on point 2: try sharing your HR (on your FR255 find function called broadcast heart rate) connect it (pair) to 540 as a sensor. otherwise how do you expect 540 to read your pulse? you can do similar way with HRM strap which is going to be way more accurate solution.

    ad.1. on Garmin's true up, not sure but i believe calories should be adjusted in Connect. I guess you trained without heart rate (as per point 2), maybe this is why 540 could not add any active calories. i have different config (tacx trainer), so cannot directly compare. but using tacx adjusts calories, load and all that after exercise. and so logically 540 should too.

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to 9820003

    Regarding calories, I always train with a chest sensor, I have a smart Elite machine, there is a power meter, through the power you can already find the calories burned. But the most paradoxical thing is that on the 3rd day my active calories from training were counted in Garmin Connect, yesterday I saw 1800 + 1200 (for training), I don’t know why it wasn’t like that before.

    Regarding the pulse, I repeat, I always wear a 540 chest sensor + a chest pulse sensor. At the time of training, there are 255 on my hand without training, they are simply actually on my hand, but they take the pulse incorrectly when training is not running in them, the pulse is 70-100, although during training I can accelerate the pulse to 170, which is shown by the chest sensor.
    And the whole problem is that after finishing the workout, the pulse graph is taken from the watch, it is not updated from 540 for this period of time and it turns out that according to the watch my pulse is 80 average for 2 hours of training, and according to 540, 140 pulse.

  • 0 6 months ago

    In general, calories from 540 do not count towards Garmin Connect, if you synchronize with zwift, then for some reason training in zwift counts towards calories, but from 540 they do not, nonsense...

  • 0 6 months ago
    olt1771 said:
    I bought Garmin specifically, I thought that synchronization here is at the highest level.

    Sadly, the correct synchronisation never worked with Garmin. I have the fr255music, edge 530 and hrm ProPlus heart rate strap, the synchronisation regarding calories calculation never worked! The Garmin ecosystem not worth it, only individual pieces

  • 0 6 months ago in reply to Cssaba

    Finally a useful answer. But why can't Garmin do this? It seems so obvious to me, it's an ecosystem, I'm disappointed in Garmin.