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Garmin held their annual developer conference yesterday, officially called the Garmin Developer Virtual Conference (GDVC). This event is the successor to the Garmin Connect IQ Summit, which in turn is the fraternity of the previous ANT+ seminar that focused on Garmin. Nevertheless, this year's Garmin Developer Conference includes an ANT+ section.

The conference is traditionally an event where Garmin releases announcements focusing on third-party developers, but it rarely releases new product announcements. Instead, these announcements—when viewed in the right light—can provide insight into the future of Garmin's product roadmap next year. Sometimes this insight is very clear, as it was in the early days of Connect IQ. At other times, it is a little fuzzy. This year is approaching a more vague range, but there are clear signs of where things are going.

Like most years, Garmin did not release any new consumer products this week. As mentioned earlier, this happens rarely. If/when it happens, it's just a coincidence with other events that happened during the week of the meeting (such as the sea otters that used to focus on bicycles). As far as the remaining products in 2021 are concerned, looking at the history here, we may have lost any opportunity for new things to happen. Garmin released a watch after this point in the calendar only once in the past 5 years (the Descent MK1 in 2017, which coincides with the diving industry event). But at the same time, everyone has fallen behind this year, so...shrugged.

In any case, this article is mostly geeks. Except for those future-oriented tidbits that are not.

For those who are looking for the 2021 annual state of sports technology keynote that I will deliver as part of the event, DCR supporters can experience it first, and I will post it to everyone else afterwards. Supporters can be found here, as well as the ability to register.

First, for those unfamiliar, Garmin's developer platform is basically two components. The first part is the Web API platform part. This is to perform things like pushing structured workouts (think TrainingPeaks) or routes (think Strava/Komoot) to Garmin devices. Or for apps that want to extract data (such as your workouts) into their apps (such as Strava or Today Plan). Last year, Garmin carried out a large-scale integration of all these platforms, placing them under one API roof (technically and process/logistically). They pointed out that support for the old Garmin Connect API is about to end and transition to the new platform.

In the past few months, Garmin has provided developers with three sets of new data via API (this means that the platform can automatically receive these data from the user account, if the user is authorized):

Sleep score: Now available through Health API (including sleep score and sleep quality)

Health Snapshot: This two-minute manually triggered snapshot includes snapshot data, including heart rate, HRV, pulse, respiration rate, and pressure.

Pregnancy tracking: This has been included in the larger women's health API, and if the user authorizes the application, the application can receive detailed pregnancy tracking information.

Next, we enter the Garmin Connect IQ platform changes. Connect IQ is the place to run applications on your watch or other Garmin devices (such as Garmin Edge). This is the center of most of this year's updates, although I would not consider this to be a major update year. That was last year. Like most developer platforms, the more mature they are (in terms of scale and user base), the less significant the change from year to year. Most developers appreciate stability because it makes long-term planning easier.

This year is the release of Garmin Connect IQ System 5. What follows is that the system is incremented every year (just like iOS or watchOS increments once a year).

Improved application settings: This allows application developers to do more in allowing users to configure their application settings. This means that if you have a Connect IQ app, now that app can have more detailed app settings such as groups and switching. This applies to GCM, Garmin Express and CIQ applications.

Improved CIQ device simulator: This allows developers to replay .FIT file exercises, and now developers can use the skimmer to specify the exact points in the exercise and control data field events.

Display improvements: If there is any line item that gives you insight into the future, this is it. Garmin is essentially creating a new class of devices that have greater tolerance/tolerance for always-on watch faces. Currently, this is only a Venu 2 device. However, the exact wording used in the event was "On the Venu 2 series and future AMOLED devices, we are relaxing the rules for making always active dials to make it easier to make dials on AMOLED."

Specifically, Garmin will now allow the Venu 2 series (and unreleased AMOLED units in the future) to skip the per-pixel burn detector, as long as less than 10% of the pixels are on. Garmin pointed out that Venu 2’s hardware is different from Venu 1, which makes this possible without worrying about burnout of these displays. I ask for more clarity on this, instead of rewriting everything, here is the noteworthy part of Nicholas Kral, head of CIQ at Garmin, about how this is different from the original Venu:

"The ultimate goal is to allow users to have an always-on dial, maintain a high battery life, and protect the life of the AMOLED display.

Using [Original] Venu, when the watch face enters the always-on mode, we change the watch face update rate to once per minute, and there are two rules:

If a developer violates one of these rules at runtime, we will turn off the always-on mode, and we will provide tools in the SDK to verify whether the Venu watch face complies with the rules. Rule #1 aims to maximize the number of prohibited pixels. Rule #2 aims to prevent static elements from staying for a long time. We have found in practice that it is difficult to achieve simple things, such as always on the analog minute hand, even things with a single pixel width may take more than four minutes to close. "

I know this sounds annoying, it is true-but it seems that Garmin may choose AMOLED as the technology for high-end displays. This is a bit worth noting because Garmin also used LCD screens in their Venu SQ unit last year.

Add a new analyzer: This new analyzer will help developers measure the performance of the application and work in the simulator and device. This means that developers can start to understand which calls are taking the longest time and find solutions.

Updated documentation: Garmin stated that they have updated the documentation to help developers try to make more native-looking applications, detailing how each different Garmin product series and model has its own "personality" (in their words, not my words). My watch also has its own personality, especially when it thinks I am lazy. I would call it fashionable.

Expanded CIQ data metrics: The Connect IQ app can now access body battery, stress, recovery time, maximum oxygen uptake, and activity history. However, unfortunately, neither training load nor training state is included at this time. I specifically point it out because I think it would be great to have the dial accessible, because this is the core reason I use FR745 on high-end watches (I like the Training Load default dial). In addition, they also added support for accessing the gyroscope (plus previous magnetometer and accelerometer support).

Deeper App Store analysis: Developers can now get more detailed information about which devices are downloading their apps, including percentage-based charts. This is very useful for developers to find out where to spend their time. Of course, this is almost expired. But hey, it's better to be late than never.

Before we move on to the last project, here are which platforms are getting Connect IQ System 5, although as before, some features in the series are only available for certain hardware (for example, more advanced display positions and features on Venu 2)

Connect IQ store on the new device: This is the second "ear-up" project. This is Garmin launching a Connect IQ store on the device itself. This will have recommended apps from Garmin, then download and update via BLE and WiFi. This will be fairly basic at startup, for example, you won't be able to search for apps, but just new things that Garmin recommends to get or apps you might want to update. Historically, applications have only been updated via BLE, so the expansion of WiFi is worth noting.

Of course, we have seen that both Wear OS and watchOS have an app store installed on the device, so this is also a natural evolution of Garmin. Note, however, that this only applies to devices launched in 2022. It means a device that has not yet been released, but not applicable to the current device.

call. do you understand? OK.

Wait, isn't it? Well, then go here to read the developer documentation. Delve into it in more detail than the schedule imposed by my ice cream allows.

The three ANT+ device configuration files have some minor changes. They are:

ANT+ Bike Light: The configuration file has been updated and certification has become easier. In addition, SimulANT now supports this-part of making authentication easier. ANT+ Heart Rate Device Profile: Improve profile performance in a dense gym environment ANT+ EC Profile: This is not an ANT+ thing per se, but they point out that Garmin now includes rowing machine support for selected wearable devices

Generally speaking, as a consumer, you don't need to know these. Over time, the company will incorporate these changes into products and sensors. For example, on a random day in the future, you may see your Garmin device show that it has updated your heart rate sensor. This will take a few minutes, and that's it.

We haven't seen any radical ANT+ device configuration file changes for a while (for example, when they introduced ANT+ FE-C). In some respects, stability is good. However, as I discussed in my keynote on the State of Sports Technology, many companies have noticed that ANT+ and Bluetooth lack innovations/sports for fitness-specific device profile standards that lead to standards erosion. In the past 1-2 years, we have seen a lot of evidence, especially in indoor training spaces.

In addition, in their presentation section, ANT+ pointed out that there are activities to transfer and control the TWG (Technical Working Group). They said they could find the exact timetable on thisisant.com, but I couldn't find it. This may be because when I log in, it is not as an annual (paid) member, but as a non-paying member. Either way, I can see the value of having at least a timetable available, so smarter/startups can decide whether it’s worth upgrading their ANT+ membership to join those TWGs (meaning, to know which TWGs are actually Are still alive and doing sth).

Finally, the Nordic Semiconductor team has a section to discuss their products, including ANT+ will come to NRF5340 in 2022H1. Historically, Nordic and Texas Instruments have participated in previous ANT+ seminars. In addition, all the weirdest ANT+ seminar moments are produced by the Nordic team. If it involves getting lost in the woods with a Viking hat and beer, or maybe a horse in a skirt... then the Nordic crew is involved. Anyway-if you are at the chipset level, you may get this information directly from Nordic.

Okay-Okay, a complete summary of things. Gamin also has real-time developer breakthroughs, and they say it should be posted to the developer conference page soon. Then my 2021 state of sports technology keynote speech will be released soon-although as mentioned earlier, DCR supporters can now experience it first.

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Once again, there are many great improvements in wearables, but the most basic watch functions are still lacking. Cannot access/display the next alarm time on the watch face or widget.

Agree, it would be helpful to use this option as a watch face data field. At the same time, although there is no widget, I can view/set/adjust the alarm on Fenix ​​6 by setting the hotkey as an alarm clock and pressing and holding the button.

And there are two countdown timers! ! ! ! !

My 945 can even set more than two timers.

+1 Configure the fenix hotkey for alarm editing. Life on the edge is changing.

I think the watch face still can't access the body battery level?

Interesting, but I do hope that they will spend some of their development resources on configuring phone applications for their devices. Long overdue, consumers will appreciate it immediately.

I am about to post this. Consider the changes that allow for improved application settings-you might think that they can contain changes to standard active applications. Doing this on the watch is painful!

+1000, I prefer to configure the watch (especially the active data field) and save the configuration file on my phone instead of downloading the CIQ application on the watch

Yes! I also want to be able to save some different save settings in Connect, which I can use to reconfigure the watch almost immediately without pressing a button.

Is there any mention of VSCode replacing Eclipse? Announced last year, some progress, but from what I have seen, it is not very fast. I really think a better IDE will move things forward, because every time I reopen my project, I have to relearn how Eclipse works. This is installing new Java, updating IDE, updating ConnectIQ And reset the various configuration files in the tool, and then re-download the watch configuration file I need.

It's great to see other updates, ConnectIQ is maturing. Even if the final battery life is affected, fenix with Amoled will be a big step forward. For most people, we have already got rid of battery life concerns. I also noticed that they seem to fix errors more consistently and faster, which is great.

I wonder if part of the point of the Enduro series is that it will eventually become a non-AMOLED Fenix.

They now recommend VS Code through Eclipse: link to forums.garmin.com their highest 1.0.0: link to market.visualstudio.com Although there is no language server, it is used for real auto-completion and other functions 🙁 link to code.visualstudio. com

The Garmin comment provided in Ray's Enduro comment implies the creation of a new platform, and the first product released on that platform is Enduro. I think this means that there are five button products that will take advantage of the new platform in the near future, even though each product uses display technology. I think we will know eventually. They usually don't talk too much about the contents of the case.

I don't know that I would expect anything but another Enduro to be comparable to the existing Enduro. The Fenix ​​crowd wants their map.

Thank you Eli, I haven't seen it yet, this is good news. Unfortunately, Ray is not more involved in coding, I think ConnectIQ can use the momentum of this post to get this kind of news. Now I will lose a few days to learn how the VSCode integration works, and may come back to rant about why Visual Studio is not so popular 😀 Then I may start the IoT Hub SDK project I have always wanted to complete... eventually

Yes, it is already there. Under Extension, search for "Garmin" or "Monkey C".

>> Let's face most people, the worries about battery life are long gone.

Let's face it, Garmin is years behind in the smartwatch business. Apple has been leading the way in their touch screens, watchOS, and on-device app stores for many years. This version of Connect IQ 5 is a small step, and it has not caught up anyway. However, Garmin is in a leading position in the field of fitness watches. For fitness watches, the use of GPS to record a few hours of activity in a day is a common and common use case. This requires battery life. Have you ever run a marathon with Apple Watch? Triathlon? Going for a week of hiking without a smartphone or charger? No, many people do not have "outdated battery life concerns". These are things that Apple Watch simply cannot do.

I am not a fan of these two products (they are both great). I hope that one day our products *have* the same excellent touch screen and touch, buttons and long battery life as Apple. But for now, we have to make a choice-for fitness watches, I always choose battery life.

Is it possible in the future to track HRV in the course of a night like Oura, and then report to a third party?

This part is the function of the body's battery, isn't it?

This is what I miss the most.

One thing I really want to see is that Garmin provides loaded courses and course points for ciq data fields. I think a lot of interesting and useful data fields can be completed for us who we often follow the route.. Have you heard of it?

Thank you for the update. "...Unfortunately, training load or training status is not currently included." This is unfortunate. And inexplicable. Is this a technical issue with ConnectIQ? I don't understand the only halfway integration of TacX and Garmin indicators.

thank you. I have registered for the conference, but I am constrained by my daily work and cannot listen. "It's okay", I think I... "Lei will post a good summary in the next day or so". You become quite predictable. 🙂

Alas, the ANT+ LGT bicycle lighting standard is still not an official ANT+ profile, it is actually a closed store.

The entire LGT shared channel configuration file is too complicated.

I keep beating this drum, and I think Ray covered it well in his keynote speech on Standard Break. He will post it on his youtube channel soon, usually for those who have not participated in the virtual event.

The lighting is actually on 2.0, but only for members, which is not how it works at all. Once it is approved as x.0, it should be available to adopters. However, products protected by a garmin patent (radar) are given an express train to ant+ adopters. When the cycling news was "public", Ray sent them Garmin's press release, which I believe is actually public. The PR says it is available, but the adopter cannot see it.

You are right about the complexity. This might kill aviation.

I have implemented an LGT profile for nRF52 and achieved a certain degree of success, but I still have shared channel errors and disconnection issues. I put this project on hold for a while, because I found that debugging on the shared channel side was just an overly complicated mess. The Controller implementation of different Garmin computers also has many shortcomings, and some do not follow the configuration file.

Someone needs to enter the configuration file and delete all unnecessary nonsense, such as matte materials. I wrote a letter to the working group on this (suspecting it was just Garmin and Bontrager) but it was ignored.

I implemented it for ANT+ Managed Network Document – ​​Bike Lights Device Profile, Rev 2.0_M.001, but my ANT+ membership has expired. Is there a new version of this document?

There is still no news about using running power as a native indicator, which will make Stryd tripod less dependent on third-party data fields (just like I created it myself)? It's really a pity, it will make life easier

Unless I can have a high/low alert, such as pace and heart rate, running power will not do me any good.

Any news about the fenix 7 version?

The Fenix ​​Stalking movement has penetrated various blogs and websites.

Out of curiosity, what specific new good things are we all looking for in F7?

One day I will have another one in the Fenix ​​series, but now I find the cousin FR945 is pretty good.

Answer in paragraph 3 of this article

My wish list is short but very specific:

Reduce or eliminate wasted black screen borders and use this space for larger screens and/or more efficient solar panels. 10+ bit color depth (currently 8 bits) 400+ ppi pixel density (currently 283ppi) 64GB+ storage Space (currently 32GB) Delete 32 installed applications and 2 data fields per activity limit, increase 4 sensors

Other upgrades that I don’t necessarily need but will still be welcome may include:

Larger battery and/or efficiency upgrades to extend battery life Dual-frequency GPS chip (although the effectiveness of dual-frequency in smart watches has been proven so far and does not really improve anything) Touch screen to supplement (but not replace) 5 buttons , Especially the map pan/zoom function

I really hope that the only feature of the new Fenix ​​is ​​LTE, and some good color combinations. I'm seriously excessively black. I am about to start working with a new coach, and as I am about to move out of the early stages of parenting (due to my wife’s crazy medical work arrangements, I have been the primary caregiver for most of the past 4.5 years), I need to get a new piece of The right training watch. AW Series 5 will not do this. It’s exciting, but also irritating... because although I can get 945 LTE now and might like it, what I really want is mineral blue/white 6 Solar with LTE so I can get other Good things about maps and Fenix. I might try to use the AW application to bridge this gap.

10-bit color, really? Do you want to watch HDR content on your watch?

The new good thing I'm waiting for is a training function (Firstbeat?), I don't know what I need or exist, and it surprises everyone. In other words, I think what Ray wrote is a very strong sign that there will be no new F7 this year. Otherwise he would wear it on his wrist now and write something more obscure. After all, maybe you can take advantage of F6's benefits now...

Maybe teach the watch different gestures instead of the built-in gestures. I'm not talking about special, unofficial swimming methods :-), but a watch with more than 2 current device states (pre-gesture and post-gesture state) would be great. It can be used for practically anything.

For example, you can switch between data screens only by hand motions, shaking, etc. during the event. Gesture 1: Go forward, Gesture 2: Go backward

Another example is to use the pre-taught gesture activation function, just like the buttons in Control now. Wild hand shaking = flashlight etc.

Or use gestures to have a 2-page watch face. It is also possible now, I mean to define 2 pages, but using a predefined gesture, when you look at the watch, it is difficult to avoid switching to page 2. It actually means that unless you deliberately make awkward movements with your arm, you will always see the same page.

I have a data field that allows you to "scroll"/switch between pages using app-defined "gestures": quickly press up, down (or down, up). The trick here is that the data field can detect when it is hidden and show it again in a short time. I use this technique to implement a full-screen data field application, which usually displays 6 indicators, but can also display a list of lap data with multiple pages.

This is not the best user experience because it can easily be triggered accidentally, but it is also easier to be triggered intentionally compared to the standard "turn the wrist" gesture.

Link to apps.garmin.com

I just want more LTE features, such as some fast text or some LTE data for email applications. You can do this through the emergency screen, but the less serious way is better. Otherwise I like my 945lte and battery life...

It sounds like "I don't need too much, but just give me more of everything!" ... Seriously, why do most of us need more colors or pixels? This is a watch, and in most cases, I will look at it very briefly.

Of course, larger displays and solar panels will be very popular. Or a smaller watch that anyone who likes the 745 will confirm. The last three you mentioned are also very useful. More accurate GPS and longer-lasting batteries are always welcome. The touch screen is occasionally useful, but we must have an option to turn it off (just use 5 buttons).

More sensors, more precise data and better insights are always exciting for us, and I hope that other platforms and brands will continue to work hard.

I know it will and use it, in fact I am the one who asked for the other 2 clones (C and D) under the nickname Tisztul_A_Visztula.

What I mean is not a predefined button sequence as a gesture, but a gesture of turning the wrist.

"I know it will and use it. It is actually two other clones (C and D) that I asked for the nickname Tisztul_A_Visztula."

Oh! Hi. Glad you like this app! (I know it is very niche).

"I don't mean a pre-defined button sequence as a gesture, but a gesture of turning the wrist."

Yes, I get it, but I just point out that there are alternatives that other developers don't seem to use. (Although I fully understand why not-it is very non-standard and unintuitive.)

Hmm... Am I missing something? Last year, no watches except Venu 2 were said to have obtained CIQ 4. Now many devices have obtained CIQ 5......? It’s not that I’m complaining, I’m just not sure if I understand this correctly.

Correction: It is said that apart from the new devices in 2021, no watches have received CIQ 4, sorry

Yes. Nothing is system 5 that did not get system 4 last year. As of last year, there is a difference between the system (specified in single digits) and API level (specified by xyz). So System 4 covers the units running API 3.2.x and 4.0.x, but there are a few things that only apply to 4.0.x units (ie Venu 2 and 2s), almost all of which are related to graphics and anyway, only really applicable to AMOLED units. The exception is the super application, which I think requires better multitasking capabilities than the old unit can manage. Everything else in System 4 applies to Fenix ​​5 plus, 6, Forerunner 945, 245, 745, and some other lists that I don’t remember. System 5 will cover the same units, and there will also be some things that can only run on 4.0.x hardware, and there will be units that support the app store on the device in 2022, and these units will not be able to run on 3.2.x units or Current 4.0.x units. This is a bit confusing, especially since System 4 covers some 3.xy units as well as 4.0.x! I think what they are trying to do in general is to slightly improve the backward compatibility of the new version, while accepting certain features that cannot be implemented on the old hardware.

Thank you Dom. I didn't realize the difference between "System" 4 and "API" 4. Glad to know, I was a bit confused before.

Hi, good news about batteries and pressure, but Garmin has no news about whether they can be used on existing devices or only on new devices (they are listed as compatible with API 3.3.0, but currently no watch can meet that requirement!

Oh, buddy, looking for/hoping for news about ant+ aviation profile data (wind speed) for real-time calculation of CdA on the device. And native operating capabilities.

Unless I missed it: still does not support more than two custom data fields per activity. It's a pity, that.

Agree, either more than 2 CIQ data fields, or more local data fields, such as operating power.

I recently tried to write an application for my fr945 that connects to my continuous blood glucose monitor. Except for the fact that you basically reverse-engineered the protocol, the project ultimately failed because the watch cut everything after the first 20 bytes ([1]) of all received Bluetooth messages.

Do you know why these CGMs have not standardized ANT+ or BT device configuration files? Shouldn't those super Homo sapiens be interested in this? Based on your experience: Is it possible/will Garmin solve the problem I am facing?

[1]: Link to forums.garmin.com

Dexcom has a new official CIQ app. I don't know if I can use the link to garmin.com

Very interesting set of updates. I also hope to be able to implement or improve some daily/smart functions, at least in the upcoming models: for example, why does the "do not disturb" mode not sync with the smartphone?

Looking at the list of CIQ5 devices, Garmin once again somehow forgot that they used to make Forerunner 645(M). The poor lonely watchman, left on the side of the road...

I agree. disappointing. I realize that the device itself is a few years old, but if Garmin maintains consistency among the pioneers of the x45 series, it would be great. I hope this is something they will pay more attention to in the future

Garmin randomly named it 645. It is based on 935 *35 hardware. Except for the "ok" battery, it is not a bad watch in itself. That and mine seem to have an error in detecting gps signals. But look at DC's review, you would think this is the best thing since sliced ​​bread.

I am not sure if you are reading the same review that I am writing.

If you look back at the review that lasted nearly 4 years, you will see clearly in the summary that I basically said that the jury is not out.

"So what is the summary of Garmin's first watch that supports music? Honestly, it may be too early to say."

"Shifting focus, once you enter the music field, the jury will be out of the game, depending on how you usually listen to music. Personally, I pay more attention to streaming services. As far as Garmin is concerned, even if iHeartRadio is in the next Going online within a week or two will not really solve my problem because it is not the platform I use, nor is it a platform I can use outside of the United States."

"I also think we might see a lot of people realize how finicky Bluetooth audio headsets are when connected to a watch (it has been so for years). Garmin might get some criticism there, even if it's not fully deserved (maybe they should Follow Fitbit’s approach to make your own headphones to ensure that they work properly)."

Literally, 75% of the summary of the review was me who pointed out the problem.

Say it again, what comment are you reading?

Your review is top-notch Ray. Many people, including Google, believe your comments. Therefore, many people do purchase watches based on your published reviews many years after the watch is released.

Yes, it will be time consuming, but might it be a good idea to add a post comment paragraph for the major watch update? In my mind, since its release, Vantage/Elemnt/245/945 has received major updates in terms of accuracy and functionality. Due to the update, most people will even say that 245 is better than 645.

Oh yes, the company should take responsibility for this situation. Name the watch correctly and do not publish semi-finished watches with errors.

I hope Apple Music is the music provider for Garmin watches. For me, it is the best and the cheapest, especially in lossless format. Obviously it is not a Garmin watch and it may not work.

Does anyone here know a webpage or application that uses the Garmin API to provide better charts? ? ? A generation

When looking at longer time spans, I mainly consider resolution or data points. On the connected www, all charts have the same annoying behavior, if you look at 6 months, you can only get a one-month average. For example, the link to connect.garmin.com

Link to connect.garmin.com Even if it is a 4-week block, they will add it together for an average of one week, so you will get 4 points instead of the 28 points that really exist... Or maybe there is a good reason? ? ? ?

Where are there discussions about better integration with telephone voice assistance? ? ?

I really want to say: "Google/Siri, set the Garmin alarm clock to 7pm." Or "start garmin walk" and so on.

It seems strange that such support does not exist. Alarms, timers, start activities should be straightforward...

Hi Ray! Is there an announcement on how to use the ciq field as a target during wotkouts? Let's just focus on the garmin power ciq used to run the power supply. If I want to train based on that specific ciq value, what should I do?

I hope Fenix ​​7 will be available this year, but I guess Garmin is also struggling with a shortage of microprocessors.

They had to pay a lot of money ($10 million?) to decrypt their data.

"They had to pay a lot of money ($10 million?) to decrypt their data." That was more than a year ago and accounted for a very small portion of their income. I sincerely doubt whether the fiasco has completely hindered their production plans. Garmin is a large company. In my opinion, they are unlikely to need to withdraw their R&D and production personnel from their work in order to deal with database hacking for which they have no expertise. In any case, Garmin has released several new products since that ransomware attack, which is meaningless.

Exactly the same as Fenix ​​7.

I am waiting for a Garmin watch with an ECG. I currently have a Fenix ​​5 Plus and a Samsung Galaxy Watch 3. I have heart disease and I must pay attention to it when I exercise. I want an all-in-one device with Fenix ​​series fitness functions and ECG that can record irregular heart rhythms. I will not upgrade my Garmin until this becomes a reality. I am not in the Apple ecosystem, otherwise I already have an Apple Watch. Hopefully the next iteration of the Fenix ​​series will include this.

Is there an opportunity for Garmin to add support for connecting IQ on instinct devices? I don't understand why they don't do this. Many developers will make some specific applications for the basic model... Does anyone know if Garmin has added support for old models in the past? greeting!

I have been reading the materials of the Connect Developer project. I very much agree with their view that supporting a common SDK or API for everything from large platform customers to amateur developers is expensive and can easily lead to high cost of running and supporting programs. In other words, the application has some "chicken and egg" problems. They largely motivate you to have existing experiences, privacy agreements, and other materials before you can access the platform to build something that allows you to have an integrated experience. This is not ideal. It is fairly clear in trying to exclude non-corporate customers-and I sympathize again-especially with regard to privacy issues.

What I want to see is the "hobbyists can only access my own data" layer-limited features, with request quotas, etc. This may provide a stepping stone for people to determine whether to establish a business. Today, the next best option is to export your fitness history from Garmin — basically, all your activities and interactions with Garmin are in one large zip file, and then manually upload future activities. This is useful for prototyping, but it is clumsy for early products.

I am curious about the secondary screening of this project-what will they ask for next? Ray-a good follow-up to next year's meeting is the statistics of this project-applications, acceptances, inquiries, etc.

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You may stumble across here and are looking for reviews on sports gadgets. If you are deciding which unit to buy-please check my in-depth review section. Some comments are more than 60 pages long when printed, and there are hundreds of photos! My goal is to spare no effort.

This is my recent guide to GPS watches, and riding GPS computers. In addition, there are smart coaches here, and all the content in these guides covers almost all types of sports products. Looking for the equipment I use every day? I also compiled my complete list of "equipment I use" equipment, from swimming to cycling to running and everything in between (plus some extras). To praise this, here is the list of girls (my wife). Enjoy, and thank you for coming!

I travel a lot for work and entertainment. This is a bunch of random travel reports and daily travel logs that I have compiled and published. I have sorted everything by world geography to try to make it easy for you to understand the places I have been.

Apart from "What is the best GPS watch for me", the most common questions I receive are photography-based. Therefore, in order to fight the large number of emails I need to organize every day, I wrote this "My Photography Gear" post for your curiosity! This is a good break for daily sports technical talks, and I hope you can learn something from it!

Many readers stumble into my website looking for information about the latest and greatest sports technology products. But in the end, you might just want to know "what does Ray use when not testing new products?". So here is a list of the latest products I like, best suited to me and my training needs! DC Rainmaker 2021 Swimming, cycling, running and general equipment list. But wait, are you a woman and think these things may not apply to you? If this is the case (but certainly not that my choice is not suitable for women), and you just want to see different gear fans "choices", please also check the girl’s gear guide.