Diablito

Anyone have a Garmin Edge 1000? Are you having trouble with text notifications? I was looking into the 1000 or the 810. I read the 1000 is more accurate because it can recieve both GPS and Glassno signals. Anyone have experience with any of these? Thanks

Diablito

Does the 810 have the ability to make up rides like the 1000?

Square Wheels

I have the 1000 and like it. I get texts, but I only look at the notifications, I don't try to read them.
Yes, it makes up rides, I used this feature a few weeks ago and loved it. Took me on a great ride.

Diablito

Thats the one feature that I like the most being that I don't know my way around New Jersey. Being able to point out a starting point on a map, driving there and the computer making up a route is freaking awesome.

Square Wheels

It is. I only used it once, but I told it I wanted to do a 30 mile loop and it gave me a few choices. I picked one and off I went.

Lot's of people knock Garmin, but I really like them. I prefer their site for looking at data much more than Strava.

SpeshulEd 

When the 1000 makes a ride does it know to put you on bike routes or does it use any road available? If I try to use the gps on the 810 to get me home, it just picks a normal driving route with no concern for traffic or the fact that it just suggested a 6 lane street with no bike lanes.

Diablito

Can you decide in the options to choose 3 hilly rides or flat rides to choose from? Do any of the other garmin's offer this pick a ride feature.

Square Wheels

I only used it for 1 ride, and all of the roads around my house are bike accessible. The first 5 miles were busy roads, then the next 20 were very quiet roads.

It listed 3 routes for my and the total elevation for each. I don't think you can tell it how much elevation you want and it finds that rides, just total miles.

Marcus_Ti

Phone syncing depends on your device and the apps it uses. iPhone users are almost always complaining because iPhone sync doesn't work more often than not. On my Nexus 6, using Hangouts the Edge doesn't give me the text of an SMS just the notification.

Using GPS/GLONASS mode burns more battery than just using GPS. Further GPS is close enough for most usage.


Last firmware update to E1K, v3.0 broke old 705-era Garmin HRM straps. That was over a month ago and still has yet to be fixed.

Diablito

I'm assuming this can be used as a car/ mountain biking / hiking GPS also.

Seattle Forrest

Before you get too excited about the feature in the Garmin, have a look at this:

https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/

I'm not even a Strava member and I use their heat map to find good rides when I travel. Works pretty well.

Lots of people out here are mostly cyclists and have an Edge computer, but also use it for cross country skiing. It's not going to work as well for hiking or in a car, but it can do either job. When you upload your hikes they'll show up as bike rides and you'll have to fix it.

I have a Garmin watch that does the texts and emails feature in the Edge you're looking at. I didn't think it would be very useful when I got it, but I really love not having to get my phone out or wonder why it's buzzing at me.

Marcus_Ti

Sure...but if you have a smartphone on you anyway, it is a better device for car usage. Most smartphones these days have much more fluid and sensitive GUIs/displays than E1K, and in a car you don't have to worry about battery life.

Thing about phone notifications...it depends on how many notification pings you get daily. I thought it was neat at first. Then for a week or two my phone was pinging non stop while riding and I turned the feature off. Hard to focus and enjoy a ride when the Edge is constantly chirping with popups.

Diablito

Thanks. I have a hiking GPS. Just wanted to know it was capable of hiking, mountain biking and car. Just wanted to make sure it could after I fork out the money.

As for notifications I disable email and leave on text just incase wife texts

Seattle Forrest

Were they all text/email, or coming from other apps? You can allow/deny specific apps the right to notify your device in Garmin Connect Mobile if it's other stuff (eg you can say yes for email and no for facebook).

Hey, do you have any more detail on the breaking of ancient HRMs? I have a chest strap that stopped working recently, I don't have a 1000 but I wonder if some of the same code wound up in one of my other devices... Does it go kaput totally, or does it report nonsense, like 20 bpm?

Seattle Forrest

The "Live Tracking" thing is pretty nice, too. Before you ride, it sends your wife an email with a link, then as you ride it uploads your position and when she goes to the page it shows her where you are on a map. If she has a sense of your route, she can have a pretty good idea when you'll be home. My girlfriend loves that. When I don't use it, I get "so when are you coming home?" texts.

SpeshulEd 

Live Track is a really cool feature.

I also have a buddy that uses a garmin 510 for kayaking. He says it works pretty well.

ColaJacket

Wife? Girlfriend? Doesn't the Live Tracking give you away?

GH

Diablito

I bought the Garmin 1000 bundle kit. Works perfectly out the box. A little overpriced but it offers every feature possible. Already downloaded 5 rides, I'm hype.

One problem I'm having is with the Garmin Express on the PC. It doesn't find my 1000 but the PC finds the 1000 as a mass storage unit. That's how I got the rides in. I can't use any of the other features since the Express doesn't work. I reset, installed updated drivers, tried new cables. Don't know what else to do. Any suggestions?

Diablito

I'm running Windows 7 on my PC.

Square Wheels

I almost never connect it to my PC, it syncs with my phone.

One issue I've noticed with Garmin devices when connecting to a PC, they provide crappy USB cables that often don't work. I've had similar issues. Try a better quality USB cable. One more issue I've had is if you have an Garmin ANT stick plugged into a USB and then try to plug in a USB Garmin neither will work.

Just some thoughts.

Diablito

One question, is there another way to get the routes I choose from ridewithgps.com into my garmin without having to plug the garmin in as a mass storage and copy and paste the file into the garmin? Can it be done over the phone? I thought I wouldn't have to touch a PC with this garmin 1000.

SpeshulEd 

If you map the route using the garmin connect website and save it, it should then appear on the garmin connect app on your phone, from there you should be able to upload it via bluetooth to the garmin. At the moment, this functionality is broken on my 810. I can't seem to send it anything. I also can't get automatic uploads of my rides to work anymore, but if I manually click upload on the ride, it'll work.

Diablito

Thanks, I'm gonna try to map out a route with the Garmin website and see if it syncs from my phone. Would be dope. Hope it's as easy as the ridewithgps.com.

Gyrine

Diablito, you will find a lot more useful info about using your Edge 1000 and fixing issues by reading the Garmin Forum then anything you'll get from the BF brain trust: https://forums.garmin.com/forumdispl...?464-Edge-1000

Seattle Forrest

I think your Edge should upload your rides through your phone so you can examine the maps and charts later. If that doesn't work, getting routes onto your GPS over the air won't work, either.

In Connect, you want to go to Courses (on the sports dashboard) and create a new one. After you save it, I think there's a "send to device" button and then next time it syncs your route should be there on your Edge.