Whatsapp notifications

confermo che riesce solo a visualizzare gli "sms" , il resto bug.

This is not a bug. Same behavior on all Garmin devices. They have decided to show only a limited number of characters.

Shawn-Garmin could you forward this to the devs? Or try to find out what the reason is for not showing Whatsapp messages on edge devices?

I would welcome notifications to which I could reply by pressing single button with predefined message like "I'm ok" ... etc

Hmmm, I wonder what's safest, looking down on your computer at the handlebars to see a notification that you got a WhatsApp or Messenger message and who it's from or taking one hand off the handlebars to look at the watch or phone....and then potentially the OTHER hand too, to swipe/unlock the phone or press buttons on the watch!

If it's true that Garmin is blaming safety, it's just completely INSANE, makes NO SENSE whatsoever! Especially singe we DO get SMS/call notifications (which completely dismisses the "legal" argument, at least I have never heard of a law in ANY coutry that differentiates between SMS messages and WhatsApp or Messenger or any other text messages), and besides bought a handlebar bike computer specifically so we can READ INFORMATION on our HANDLEBARS instead of on our watch or phone! If there was any safety or legal reasoning, the bike computer would simply blank the screen once over a certain speed, so you'd have to slow down or stop to read ANYTHING, and use voice only to get information above that speed. I certainly hope most of us are responsible enough to look at the road instead of our computers when riding fast in heavy traffic!

And stop promoting "smart notifications", Garmin, there is nothing smart about SMS and calls, they've been mainstream since the early 90s long before the first smart phones hit the market! Smart Notifications means what is available on the watches, where you can select notifications from any app on the phone to show up on the watch in the Garmin Connect settings!

Anyway...what about a ConnectIQ app or datafield for smart notifications? Or is it not possible because the Garmin Connect app doesn't send the notifications? In that case a companion app on the phone could maybe solve it? Tried a quick search in the ConnectIQ store but couldn't find anything...

The problem is something else and that is why other bike computer vendors doesn't do it as well.
SMS is link to the phones OS. WhatsApp isn't . The Connect App takes an API function to pick up the SMS. WhatsApp needs to provide an API to allow go brab bhe messages form there.
What you see on your phone screen is several apps placing there messages there, but each independently.
So technical option would be (if an API funciton would exist) to foward all screen messages to the Garmin. But I don't think you would like it.
And where should Garmin stopp then. You WhatsApp, other Facebook, Twitter etc. No unique API.
Garmin does a lot of developement. But not everything is as easy as it looks to be.

The problem is something else and that is why other bike computer vendors doesn't do it as well.
SMS is link to the phones OS. WhatsApp isn't . The Connect App takes an API function to pick up the SMS. WhatsApp needs to provide an API to allow go brab bhe messages form there.
What you see on your phone screen is several apps placing there messages there, but each independently.
So technical option would be (if an API funciton would exist) to foward all screen messages to the Garmin. But I don't think you would like it.
And where should Garmin stopp then. You WhatsApp, other Facebook, Twitter etc. No unique API.
Garmin does a lot of developement. But not everything is as easy as it looks to be.

No need for an API for each app - just grab the notifications.
There is an Android app called "Notification Forwarder" that reads notifications and (temporarily) places them in your SMS inbox. I've used it in my car and presumably it could work with the Edge as well.

WhatsApp needs to provide an API to allow go brab bhe messages form there.

This isn't true, as Weiman said it just needs to have permission to read notifications, which the connect app already does. You can even configure which notifications you want the connect app to receive.

It also works for some notifications - e.g. google hangouts - I receive these fine on my 130. I'm not sure why it only works for notifications from some apps, maybe they have them white-listed or only forward notifications on certain channels.

Uh, I guess you guys don't have a Garmin watch? I have a Fenix 5, and there's a section in the Garmin Connect app (Android) that brings up a list of ALL apps installed on the phone, and I can choose which ones are allowed to send notifications to the watch. And every app I turn on shows its notifications on the Fenix 5, including WhatsApp! So when it already works on the Fenix 5 there's no technical reason why it shouldn't work on the Edge computers too, because clearly, Garmin Connect is able to send any notification that shows up on the phone to the device. At least on Android, I don't know about IOS.