New watches worth it?

Hello!

I am a proud and happy partner of a 935 for years. I have no complaint whatsoever it works like very well, and the battery is showing no hesitation in 4 years.

I always use it with a HR chest band, even on my CrossFit sessions. Today I forgot the band at home and went for a run relaying only on the wrist optic sensor of the watch. What a mess...I was even thinking of not logging the session, because such an unreliable measurements affects to my normal statistics.

So my question is. Are the HR sensors of the new watches more accurate? Are they worth in on this regard?

Thanks!!

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S.M.R. 1 month ago in reply to morey000 +2

You can disable source switching via the HR widget , settings . Must have HRM connected to do so.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=Nf8r6ApX4d9lX0G0flEsVA

forums.garmin.com/.../turning-off-source-…
flocsy🤠 1 month ago in reply to morey000 +2

1. Yes it can. Use the format string: "strap: {H} optical: {o}"

You can also just display the strap (that's the default setting) and in another field on the same screen display the "regular"…
Elbo 1 month ago +1

I used a forerunner 935 for over 6 years and have a forerunner 965 since last year.

I find the 965 one big disappointment.

The watch is way more expensive, the firmware is way more buggier, the new functions…

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0 nick_nz 1 month ago

If it ain't broken, don't fit it. I only upgraded from the 945 to 965 because the screen started delaminating on the 945.

0 morey000 1 month ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Cool. Just tried it on a run today. App works great. Questions:
1. Can the data screen show both HR’s at once? And,

2. It seems that the app picks up the external HR monitor. So, the metrics for the run are all based on the (generally lousy) wrist based HR. Any way to switch them?

nicely done!

0 S.M.R. 1 month ago in reply to morey000

You can disable source switching via the HR widget , settings . Must have HRM connected to do so.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=Nf8r6ApX4d9lX0G0flEsVA

forums.garmin.com/.../turning-off-source-switching

0 flocsy🤠 1 month ago in reply to morey000

1. Yes it can. Use the format string: "strap: {H} optical: {o}"

You can also just display the strap (that's the default setting) and in another field on the same screen display the "regular" heart rate.

2. No, unfortunately it's not possible, because once you connect the strap to the watch via the watch menu it'll disable the optical sensor (and even if not, because of the new feature on some of the watches that keeps it on as a fallback if there's a problem with the strap, the optical hr is not accessible by the CIQ code)

0 morey000 1 month ago in reply to S.M.R.

Yeah- thanks. I already have source switching disabled, as otherwise it likes to choose the (generally wrong) watch data over the generally correct, external strap data. I appreciate that garmin is trying here, and glad they give the option