Originally Posted by
Steve B.
If it’s like my 1000, you pair the Connect app separately, then pair the device direct to the phone.
There are 2 parts that pair, at least on my 1000, the regular Edge and the BLE, which I believe is the BT part that pushes notifications.
In operation, the Edges use BT to communicate to the Garmin Connect app (GCM). GCM gets the notifications and relays them to the device using BT. The device sends data to GCM which relays data to other things. Everything goes through GCM.*
In setting up, the BT connection has to be established before GCM can communicate with the device.
* Data can get transferred via WiFi but the use of that is limited.