Garmin Vitesse 3d

[Bernice Ebesugawa]

Ive tried and failed to find a way to display average speed to two decimal places - I've trawled the native settings as well as third party data fields and can't find anything, however I have seen the odd comment in forums mention similar requirements as well as one comment suggest they were using a data field for this very thing. Any help where I can get this from? Thanks

Yes i reckon it is available in an IQ app somewhere but I can't find it from an app store hunt, trying to find someone who has already found this as ive seen it mentioned in comments on another forum. Half of my rides are time trial style and It'd be super useful to see how close or far I am to the next tenth decimal by monitoring the corresponding hundredth moving up and down. It'd bring a whole new dimension to my training instead of guessing when I'm going to hit the next tenth.

I wrote a data field a few years ago for my 520 to display the current speed, a pace arrow and the average speed to two decimal places. I've just re-compiled it for the 530 and it works OK in the simulator on 1, 2, and 3A data fields. On the 520 as the number of fields increases, the caption and average drop out just leaving the arrow and speed, but it isn't aligning quite right on the 530. If this may be useful, I could look into publishing it.

Out of interest as another option how much work would it be to duplicate code you've written and strip out the other bits leaving just the average to two decimals to use in a smaller field in a separate compile? After searching there is defo not an easily accessible solution for this so you'd likely get some decent interest...just a thought : )

Sorry for the late reply....coincidentally had a few issues with the garmin just after you sent this. I tried your install yesterday....this is EXACTLY what I've been searching for. You're a star. Defo release it to IQ if you have time its so useful for certain type of riders...thanks again!

Pleased to hear this is what you were looking for. It'd be nice to get it more in the style of the standard Garmin data fields with the units (mh / kh) displayed. I looked at this when doing the data field above, but never quite managed to match the style. If I get time, I'll look again then maybe release it.

It only takes a second to add it, which then will show up in the devices menu, and allow you to tweak some settings, notably your weight and wheel size. Also, you can check for firmware updates and see the battery status, as well as learn about the sensor indicators:

(Note: All of the charts in these accuracy portions were created using the DCR Analyzer tool. It allows you to compare power meters/trainers, heart rate, cadence, speed/pace, GPS tracks and plenty more. You can use it as well for your own gadget comparisons, more details here.)

The DuoTrap/DuoTrap S sensors mount in the chainstay of Trek bikes and depend on a spoke magnet for speed and a crankarm magnet for cadence. They are extremely reliable as long as those two magnets stay put.

Magene (the company that produces the trainer Gravat2) has a product called Gemini which can switch between being speed and cadence sensor (2 modes) also has dual ANT+/bluetooth transmission. It has been around for like a year from aliexpress for under $20.

The old speed sensor when placed on the rear wheel was well known to regularly drop out from connecting to a head unit over a ride meaning a few seconds of auto-pause every once in a while which added up to an irritating amount over longer rides. This therefore forced you to place it on the front wheel where I always found it completely flawless.

Hi Ray,

Thank for three awesome reviews :)

I am seriously loving the idea of using the Edge 530 on my MTB and I was hoping for a word on these sensors on a technical forest trail. Do you think they would hold?

I like the idea of caching the ride with the speed sensor for my commute bike. At the moment I log these rides with my Garmin Vivoactive 3, but I need to remember to start it. With the sensor, you have no manual action required.

Oh and a tip for commute rides synced to Garmin Connect and Strava: commutemarker.com Here you can add commute routes and this site marks the ride automatically as commute, changes the bike used and sets them as private on Strava. The last part is due to API issues not possible at this moment. But I have set Strava to set all activities to private and only my longer rides I change manually to see for everyone. So Strava is not clogged with small rides and walks, frustrating my followers ;)

Hi Shawn@Garmin

Is it possible to turn off the Activity Tracking as I have a Garmin head unit for this task and just need the sensor to send speed data only because Garmin and Strava double up on the activities.

UCI CYCLING REGULATIONS, PART 3 TRACK RACES:

3.2.005 Riders may carry no object on them or on their bicycles that could drop onto the track.

They may not bear or use on the track any music player or radio communication

system.

In addition, any electronic device with display (for instance speedometer or

powermeter) must be hidden to that it cannot be read by the riders.

But that brings up another question. I only ever see track cycling during the Olympics, but I though that these days track bikes had disc wheels front and back. So how would you get the sensor on a hub in the first place?

Thanks for the review! I wanted to ask only one quick thing: I would be willing to buy a cadence sensor for my road bike but I am undecided between version 1 and version 2 of this garmin sensor. I only go out on the street and sometimes spinning. What would you recommend? Greetings from Italy.

Thanks.

Are you concern that rubber strap can break? Is your plan to leave sensors permanently on bike and what do you think if cable ties can be used. How to make this small units harder to disappear? :-) Any ideas?

The sensors are part of the bike. If you have one for each bike and one ever fails (never happen to me yet) you have ready spares. Way better than messing around beforehand swapping the sensor around.

Anyone had issues with pairing the Cadence Sensor 2 with an Android phone? This sensor is not on the list of available devices in the Connect app. The sensor works since its LED lights up after a few revolutions of the crank.

@DC Rainmaker: Am I right in thinking that Strava have since revoked the ability to pair external sensors? If so, it may be that my initial plan of avoiding the need for a bike computer may have failed and this cadence sensor is useless for rides IRL?

The problem I found with trying to use an iPhone as a bike computer is battery life. If the display is kept on full-time and GPS is used full time I get at best 2 hours of battery life. For longer rides you will need a charger battery pack and cable.

Hello Ray,

it dosent work with my Polar Vantage. I can pair both sensors, but the speed sensor then is jumping for example 25-15-25-15 then it stops and starts again. Paired for example with wahoo app everything works fine.

Is there anyone with similar proplems using Polar Vantage V??

Thanks Gerald

If my experience could help, I had the exact same problem as you describe with the combination Garmin Edge 520 and Magene Gemini 200 speed sensor. After long discussions with Magene which even offered to replace the sensor with a 201 model with no success regarding the problem, my solution was to purchase a Garmin speed sensor to pair it with the Garmin Edge 520. All worked correctly since then, even with automatic wheel circumference calculation.

I have problem with pairing the speed sensor to Connect mobile because its not in the list of devices to pair. I live in sweden but that shouldnt make any difference. How do I get the speed sensor in the list so I can choose to pair it.

Perhaps a weird question, but is there some cheap head unit or display option that I can use to aggregate devices? I have a fenix watch and was thinking about picking up the cadence sensor for biking purposes. Would love to have the data from my watch and sensor aggregated on a handle bar mounted solution without shelling out big bucks.

Anybody else getting issues that the speed sensor duplicates rides if you also track it with a gps? I would have thought that Garmin would have implemented a system for ignoring the speed sensor ride if there is a matching one from a gps unit.

Sorry, meant to circle back on this. For those with the 530/830/1030 you can enable a deduplication feature where the Edge tells the sensor not to record. For others, Garmin is is enabling this in Garmin Connect Mobile shortly.

I can see that for a lot of people, just unpairing it from connect with be fine, as you say. Though some people commute and train on the same bike, either because of a lack of space to store extra bikes, or just not being able afford them.

Just picked up the Speed V2 for an older bike. The bike has an old Dura Ace front hub which has a small diameter. The sensor band was limp when installed and would have fallen off if left like that. Made a shim out of a piece of old tube and it mounted fine. This is the other end of the spectrum from those having problems with big hubs. Would have been nice if Garmin included some nice shims you could cut down similar to what you often see with other accessories which attach to handlebars, forks, seat stays, etc. FWIW, I also have the Wahoo magnetless speed sensor on another bike and tried it on this wheel and had the same issue.

This is not fully accurate. It syncs either after the workout ends (if your phone is in range) or when sensor wakes up (confirmed this twice today when the workout synced when the stop workout pause threshold has been triggered).

So it appears to be a bug with GCM app not showing the timezone in the My Day > Heart Rate timeline view. The website version of GC does show the time in UTC but it lines up properly on the daily summary timeline.

Hi, is anyone else having this problem? I started with the speed sensor on my back wheel on my mountain bike. I am using a Polar m450. It pairs fine but auto pauses constantly when riding! Sometimes every few seconds, other times every few minutes. It is a large mountain bike so I moved the sensor to the front wheel and it keeps happening. Non stop auto pausing and then auto continuing.

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