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Navigation heading Bug/arrow

JoseR
over 5 years ago

My apologies if this has been discussing brefore but I couldn't find a specific answer. I usually create courses on Strava or GC and then send to the FR945 for cycling. Sometimes I have that big white arrow indicating where the course goes very helpful when taking a turn, but most of the times it is just a tiny arrow head kind of useless. I found myself figuring out what turn to take more often that I'd like. Turn by turn is on, heading bug is on and file format is tcx. I do not know what I am doing wrong. Hope someone knows. Thanks!!!

  • 0 over 5 years ago

    The heading bug is more of a confirmation that you are on course, than a turn indicator (if it is 12 o'clock, you're all good). Although that confirmation is sometimes nice to have. Also useful when I have deviated off the selected route for a cafe stop to know which direction the course is in.

    The arrow should pop up about 30 seconds before a turn (so the distance will vary by speed). Although I find having the "Distance to Next" datafield useful in helping me know when to expect the next turn to come. It may be worth playing with the Navigation screens and settings to find a combination that is most useful to you - try setting the Navigation Guide to "On", the Next Waypoint field (from memory) will tell you whether it is a left turn, right turn, etc.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to mcalista

    That's the thing, I already have navigation guide on, and the watch tells me distance to next turn but the arrow doesn't show up. I don't know, it's just frustrating

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to JoseR

    I just posted the same question. Have you already found out which setting is responsible for the ’white where-to-turn arrow’ on the navigation map? Sometimes it shows up, sometimes it doesn't, but it's indeed very helpful when it does!

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I reached Garmin Support about this and they couldn't give me an answer. For me it just doesn't work when following a course but it does when I use "back to start" in navigation settings. At some point I just gave up.

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    I stopped trying to understand the navigation settings of my watch and made my own workflow.

    My settings are as follow;

    1. Go to navigation settings of the watch and enable datafield on the map.

    2. Put turn alerts off

    3. Change the activity route calculation to direct route

    4. Download the ciq app appbuilder5 and programm an invisible datafield with the following  formula;

    if(alert(distanceToNextPoint_rawgt 10, 0, 2);alert(distanceToNextPoint_raw lt 40, 2) gt 0, '', '')

    This datafield will give an alert at 40m and 10m from the waypoint (next turn). You can change the distance to your own needs.

    5. Add the datafield to the map of the activity

    Start your course!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Kroez_control

    Thanks for sharing your workflow. I found out that the white direction arrow only appears when the option Round-Trip has been selected (three courses wille be created). At least it shows up if you use one of the created course immediately. If you save the course for future purposes then - at the time when you are actually going to use ithe course - then you will see no white direction arrow and in the data field you will only see the remaining distance.       

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Not sure If I understood properly, but any chance it may be related to this problem mentioned here?

    forums.garmin.com/.../tbt-turn-notification-missing

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Scorp1981

    Well, I'm not sure, but to me it's still not clear when the turn notification arrow shows up. For It's there when I create a round trip, but now with a saved round trip. In the routes I have created it didn't show up as well.  Strange that Garmin doesn't explain this clearly.