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=== ConnectIQ Apps === | === ConnectIQ Apps === | ||
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* Notifications, Controls, Weather, Segment Explorer are all marked as Built-in Widget. | * Notifications, Controls, Weather, Segment Explorer are all marked as Built-in Widget. | ||
* Best Bike Split "Development Application" 127K ''useless for me'' | * Best Bike Split "Development Application" 127K ''useless for me'' | ||
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I clicked on "Get More Apps" in Garmin Express and it took me here: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/devices/edge830/apps | I clicked on "Get More Apps" in Garmin Express and it took me here: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/devices/edge830/apps | ||
Apparently you can install simple apps that change the way data is displayed, | Apparently you can install simple apps that change the way data is displayed, and more complex ones that, well, do stuff. | ||
Go look at https://developer.garmin.com/ for more general Garmin Developer info | |||
and especially https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/programmers-guide/ for ConnectIQ info. | |||
== Hacking around == | == Hacking around == | ||
Revision as of 23:38, 4 July 2019
Overview
GPS for bicycling
Features:
- Compact with reasonably big color touch screen and a good handlebar mounting system
- GPS and GLONASS receiver
- WiFi, Bluetooth
- ANT+
It has 16GB of storage space, on my new device about 1/2 is available.
Garmin seems intent on directing me to use "Garmin Connect". "Garmin Connect" seems like a muddled mess of fitness / athletic garbage of little interest to me.
At the moment all I want to do is:
- design a GPX route, preferably in http://ridewithgps.com/
- send the route to the Edge without dancing through several other web sites and apps
- do the ride and record it
- send the journey back up to RideWithGPS.
I don't want to track my weight, calories burned, fitness level, VO2 max, how much water I drank, yadayadayada. My fitbit does fitness things and that's all automatic. I don't want to "compete" with other Connect users.
Transferring files
Works like most other Garmin GPS receivers, plug in USB cable to PC and it appears as a storage device. Use the right cable I keep finding out some of my cables are charge-only, when I do, I throw them away. The one that came in the box works!
Software
Current firmware: 3.50 as of 2019-07-04
Use Garmin Express when you are on a PC and have a real USB cable connected. It lets you
- Add and remove "ConnectIQ" apps (yes, there are apps!)
- Adjust settings
- Update installed maps (ones from Garmin anyway)
Looks like I could remove apps I don't care about including the Strava and Trailforks things.
ConnectIQ Apps
Installed:
- Notifications, Controls, Weather, Segment Explorer are all marked as Built-in Widget.
- Best Bike Split "Development Application" 127K useless for me
- Trailforks "Development Application" 71K probably useless
- Strava Routes "Development Application" 56K useless
I clicked on "Get More Apps" in Garmin Express and it took me here: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/devices/edge830/apps
Apparently you can install simple apps that change the way data is displayed, and more complex ones that, well, do stuff. Go look at https://developer.garmin.com/ for more general Garmin Developer info and especially https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/programmers-guide/ for ConnectIQ info.
Hacking around
If I could read it, I bet the Garmin/GarminDevice.xml would spell out much of the following.
Map files appear to be rattling around in the Garmin/ folder.
The spatial format of the day appears to be "fit" files, new to me. They appear in:
- Garmin/Activities/ with date stamps
- Garmin/Courses/
- Garmin/Locations/Locations.fit is pois/waypoints including the one I created and stupid ones that Garmin put in there. (For Garmin headquarters)
- Garmin/MapThemes/Mountain.kmtf appears to be an XML style file.
- Garmin/NewFiles contains temp.gpx, which is a track file I just sent over from BaseCamp, and a fit file which a guid name.
- Garmin/Records/Records.fit ??
- Garmin/RemoteSW/CPE.BIN ??
- Garmin/Schedules/Schedules.fit ??
- Garmin/Segment_List/segment_list.fit
- Garmin/Segments/ currently empty
- Garmin/Settings/Settings.fit
- Garmin/Sports/ has a ROAD and a TOUR file, so those are probably the settings I created
- Garmin/Summary/ is empty
- Garmin/Text/*.gtt language files that I could probably just delete when I need more space. There is no English.gtt so I could delete all of them.
- Garmin/Totals/Totals.fit
- Garmin/Weight/Weight.fit
- Garmin/Workouts
Other interesting folders,
- Garmin/Debugging/ has Backup/ containing more fit files and EventLogs/ containing TXT files which are readable log files.
- Garmin/SQL/CustomMaps.db is a SQLite file
There are more uninteresting folders... :-)
Startup message
See Garmin/startup.txt, it contains
<display = 0>
so I added 4 lines of text and change 0 to 10. It works!
Automatic data uploads
There is a top level file called autorun.inf that looks like this:
[autorun] shellexecute=http://connect.garmin.com/transfer/upload icon=Garmin\Garmintriangletm.icon action=Upload to Garmin Connect label=Garmin Edge 830
I am guessing this means it connects to that URL and sends new data when it powers up or connects to a network. I am thinking I could spoof the URL and catch the data.
History
- 2019-07-04 unpacking day
- 2019-06-30 purchased from GPS City
