dianed143 Diane D
March 31
I did turn autoscroll off, though I discovered after the fact I had to do it for each profile.
Yep.
I really only use two screens, my selected data and the map. I can’t believe I can only put 2 data fields on the map when I could do 4 on the 705.
Two has been the limit for a long time now. Was that way on the 800. I use 4 pages myself (two data, map, altitude profile), and that’s why I like auto scroll. They should probably up that on the bigger screen of the 1030, but they haven’t.
I recorded my sleep last night and I had turned on auto upload yesterday, so that seem to work this morning. I do have it on wifi and BT.
Is there a way to autosave the ride? It’s an extra step to save it, though I suppose I’ll get in the habit soon enough.
No. You’ve got to manually save. It’s annoying, but detecting when the ride ends isn’t easy (did you stop for good, or are you stopped for coffee or a road obstruction and intend on continuing). If you forget to end it, I think it’s saved somewhere so it isn’t lost, but I can’t tell you where or how to get it back on the 1030.
I do like the weather feature in Rubitrack - it’s one thing Ascent never was able to automate before he stopped developing it. It was neat to see it pulled weather for my old rides too - though not neat enough to re-enter all my equipment data. I have data back to 2004 - though no location data till mid-2006. I used to use an eMap, which was difficult enough to connect to a Mac, plus a Sports Instrument bike computer with heart rate and gather all the info that way. As antiquated as that was, it was a huge improvement from my first heart rate watch which only held a few readings, so I’d have to program it before each ride or class so it didn’t run out of memory!
I took a look at Turtle Sport’s screen shots, and they have a view that looks like Ascent, so maybe I’ll give that a try. Or maybe I’ll keep working with Ascent - though it bugs me that I have to upload to the cloud to get the data into it.
Is there a way to see the TCX file directly from the 1030? I was only able to find the FIT files.
No. They switched from TCX a long time ago. The only way is what you’re doing, send the FIT somewhere that can convert to TCX. rubiTrack can do that if you don’t want to use GC, and its exported GPX has the HR extension if you’d rather use GPX.
I should probably dig up Garmin forums to see if my nitpicky questions are already out there.
Since you’re in the world of FIT now, one other place you should know about is fitfiletools.com. They have some nice online tools that come in handy on occasion. Since FIT is a binary blob, you can’t just use a text editor to fix things like you can with GPX/TCX.