Originally Posted by
goldfinch
I have a Garmin 800. How do you figure this out? I put a route in using Ride with GPS. It beeps if I am off course. Is this all I need to do or is there a feature I am missing?
Also, someone mentioned having routes show how many miles are left on the ride. How do you do that? I feel like I am doing everything by trial and error and not knowledgeable enough to know what to try.
Al, yesterday I paused my Garmin 800 when I took it off the bike and was walking around with it for a while. Of course, I forgot to start it back up again and never noticed the screen where it asks if you want to start. Frustrating.
OK, so I'm about to unveil the secret incantations I use to get turn-by-turn directions out of my 800. First, I use the tcx files out of RidewithGPS. I assume any flavor of tcx will work, but YMMV. Second, the default settings, which apparently cannot be changed don't work in my experience - you may get the microscopic turn arrows, but they are at best useless. What we all want is a pop-up turn map.
The secret steps follow:
1. Turn the darn thing on
2. Go to courses and select the route you want to follow. You've already created this with RWGPS and downloaded to the "Newfiles" folder on the Garmin.
3. Select the tools (wrench) icon:
- Turn Guidance should be "on" (Strangely enough this is not the default)
- I turn Virtual Partner "off". The default is "on". Leave it on if your tcx has a very low fixed speed
and you want to beat your partner
- Off Course Warnings should be "on". This is the default
Now comes the most critical and most secret setting - select Map Display on this same screen.
- Course Points
must be off. Naturally, this is not the default. I have no idea why it has to be "off", but there are
learned individuals on BF; perhaps someone can chime in.
This needs to be done for each new course, but if you leave a course on your Garmin these settings will persist, so no need to re-enter. You can also bring up a screen that will give you time/distance to the next turn, but I don't generally use that feature. What I do really, really like is that you get a very nice little map pop up about 30 seconds (or some dist.) before each turn. Works with Garmin and OSM maps.