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Firmware update needed to save my marriage...

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Is it possible to modify the alarm sound/tone? I get up at 4:15am to get to the pool when it opens. The Garmin Swim alarm is such a frantic tone that it wakes me with a jolt... and my wife as well! It's a fine tone for an alert or something once you're awake and alert, but holy cow it's a shocker as a "time to wake up" alarm.

Would be great if it could be set to a more sedate "chirp, chirp... chirp, chirp... chirp, chirp" or similar. Volume control would be nice as well, but a less frantic tone would be a win for sure! Perhaps even possibility to select different tones, as I'd imagine some heavy sleepers would desire the current alarm to get them up and moving.

Thanks in advance for considering this - Ray
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    Is it possible to modify the alarm sound/tone? I get up at 4:15am to get to the pool when it opens. The Garmin Swim alarm is such a frantic tone that it wakes me with a jolt... and my wife as well! It's a fine tone for an alert or something once you're awake and alert, but holy cow it's a shocker as a "time to wake up" alarm.

    Would be great if it could be set to a more sedate "chirp, chirp... chirp, chirp... chirp, chirp" or similar. Volume control would be nice as well, but a less frantic tone would be a win for sure! Perhaps even possibility to select different tones, as I'd imagine some heavy sleepers would desire the current alarm to get them up and moving.

    Thanks in advance for considering this - Ray


    Bump for Garmin folks to chime in. While to tone of my subject line is tounge-in-cheek, I am serious about the potential idea of modifying the alarm tone and/or volume.

    Appreciate any thoughts/feedback - thanks!
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    You want the Garmin Sleep, that is designed not to wake your spouse. The Garmin swim is for.... swimming.
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    You want the Garmin Sleep, that is designed not to wake your spouse. The Garmin swim is for.... swimming.


    The "sleep" is no problem. I need the Garmin Wake... Otherwise I can't swim at 5am! But if the Garmin Wake wakes my wife at 4:15, I'll need the Garmin Guest Room or the Garmin Couch soon!
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    Well if all goes wrong look out for the Garmin mistress. It's like the Garmin wife, but they bring out a new model every year.
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    Bump for Garmin folks to chime in. While to tone of my subject line is tounge-in-cheek, I am serious about the potential idea of modifying the alarm tone and/or volume.

    Appreciate any thoughts/feedback - thanks!


    Well, we will consider it. I agree it's a little frantic. However, I'm pretty sure if we changed it to a more sedate "chirp, chirp" then we'd have people saying that they never get to swim with the Garmin Swim because they oversleep because the alarm doesn't wake them up, etc. I'm not sure it's possible to design an alarm that wakes one person but not their bed-mate but perhaps it would be easier to roll over and go back to sleep if the alarm wasn't such a "shocker".
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    I'm not sure it's possible to design an alarm that wakes one person but not their bed-mate but perhaps it would be easier to roll over and go back to sleep if the alarm wasn't such a "shocker".


    That's it, exactly. My previous swim watch had a nice alarm, that was the equivalent of "Time to get up sleepyhead. Have to get to the pool. Let's go. Up an at 'em!" whereas the Garmin Swim...

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    :-)

    Not exactly what we are going for with it....
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    perhaps use you iphone/android phone with all the lovely sound options ....
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    perhaps use you iphone/android phone with all the lovely sound options ....


    Downside to that is two-fold:

    1.) Need to fumble around to find/silence phone at 4:15am; watch on wrist hard to lose track of
    2.) I believe I'd need to leave phone on overnight, and would hear tines from all emails coming in

    Need to find the Timex Ironman watch I lost somewhere in the house; alarm on that seemed better