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Possible to enter an address / create a route on the fly on a phone first?

I know it is not possible to enter an address in the unit itself to calculate a route on the fly, but is it possible do input an address and / or calculate the route on a phone first and upload it into the unit for navigation either by Strava, Connect or Ride with GPS? Since I carry my phone with me during the ride anyway I don't mind stopping for 5 min to do so on the phone as long as there is a way - it's a different story if I have to use a laptop. Trying to decide between the 520 plus and higher models. Thanks for any insight particularly from actual experience.

0 TrippyZ over 7 years ago

With the GC app you can only create roundtrips on the phone. They recently added the ability to create point-2-point in GC web.

I use Komoot to create on phone route and deliver them the to watch/edge using the komoot on device app.

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

With the GC app you can only create roundtrips on the phone. They recently added the ability to create point-2-point in GC web.

I use Komoot to create on phone route and deliver them the to watch/edge using the komoot on device app.

I like the idea of that, except the Komoot Garmin IQ app doesn't list the 520 Plus as a compatible device so we can't install it.

0 TrippyZ over 7 years ago

May I invite you to use the Contact Support option at the following link rather than post a 1 star review on the Connect IQ page http://help.komoot.de/

0 Former Member over 7 years ago

May I invite you to use the Contact Support option at the following link rather than post a 1 star review on the Connect IQ page http://help.komoot.de/

I've done both. No response from support yet and I'm willing to change my review once support is added.

0 ericgottlieb over 7 years ago

I use EasyRoute on my iPhone to create the route and then send it to the 520 Plus via Garmin Connect.

0 mappicus over 6 years ago

You can do this using our routeCourse Connect IQ app -- just create the new route on your mobile browser using our Planner then the routeCourse app on your Edge 520 Plus will download it. More info at https://dynamic.watch/help/routecourse#edgeapp You can do all that with the free version BTW, no need for Premium.

0 Former Member over 6 years ago

You can do this using our routeCourse Connect IQ app -- just create the new route on your mobile browser using our Planner then the routeCourse app on your Edge 520 Plus will download it. More info at https://dynamic.watch/help/routecourse#edgeapp You can do all that with the free version BTW, no need for Premium.

I'll have to try it again, but I paid for premium and have the Dynamic Watch app on my phone and it would just hang while trying to send it to my 520 Plus from my phone. I didn't try opening the routeCourse app on the 520 Plus.

0 mappicus over 6 years ago

I'll have to try it again, but I paid for premium and have the Dynamic Watch app on my phone and it would just hang while trying to send it to my 520 Plus from my phone. I didn't try opening the routeCourse app on the 520 Plus.

Hi rbrussell82, the dynamicWatch phone companion app is for dwMap not for routeCourse. Due to the way that routes (courses) are downloaded to Edge devices they have to come from a website, and cannot be sent from a phone like we can do with dwMap. But the sequence works very similarly using the dynamic.watch website on a mobile browser, and that was what I was referring to in my previous post here.