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Live tracking to text instead of email?

mjpatey
over 1 year ago

Hello!

I've had a Forerunner 235 for 6 years and just upgraded to the 265... loving it! 

I searched the forums for an answer on this, but couldn't find anything. For live tracking, I only see a way to send my workout info to people via email... is there any way to send it via text? The family members I'm sending this to who like to know where I am don't check email very often nowadays. I did add 3 people as emergency contacts, but they'll only get a text if I'm in trouble.

So for live tracking, I've been turning on "Live Event Sharing" every day before I go out. But because of how it's worded, everybody thinks I'm running a race when I'm not! At least they get a text.

If there's no way to add SMS recipients to the standard live tracking, is there a way to change the wording of the Live Event Sharing messages?

I'm currently running the Beta firmware (19.09).

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed!

-Mark

  • +1 over 1 year ago

    If you have a Strava account you can setup Strava Beacon on Garmin Connect. Your recipients will receive a text message in addition to the email from Garmin Connect. You can also change the verbiage of the message. 

    Settings > Safety & Tracking > LiveTrack > Settings > Strava Beacon for Garmin.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to seilogramp

    Hey, thanks! If there's no way to natively do this within Garmin, this looks like a great alternative. I've signed up, connected the accounts and will test it out today. Thanks so much!

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    As an alternative, I also wanted to suggest a workaround I discovered (which is less complete than the Strava Beacon solution)... if you know the wireless carrier of each of your LiveTrack recipients, you can effectively email them a text message. If someone is on AT&T, for example, you'd send an email to "insert-mobile-number-here@mms.att.net" and they'll receive it as a text message. The downside is that the recipients can't respond to the message (replying to the text will go to [email protected]), but the upside is there's no Strava account setup or connection process, if for some reason that's a no-go.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to mjpatey
    mjpatey said:
    you can effectively email them a text message.

    I've done that, but the formatting is unreadable, at least on my android phone.