Garmin Blue Charts Download

[Jovanna Ponder]

SoI took a trip out to the boat today and tried out a basic wireless access point connected to the Garmin Network. I was able to get BlueChart iOS on my iPad talking to my Garmin 5212 very quickly. See the details here: -mcqueen-home/home/garminmarine

Ben,

I appreciate your tenacity and will wait to see how you make out with Garmin before seeking out a passive PoE alternative.

During the winter I use Home Port(sp?) on my laptop to investigate new routes for the upcoming season. BCM on an iPad takes it to the next level as the iPad goes with me much more often than my laptop.

Gentlemen,I am interested in setting up my garmin 4212 MFD with BlueChart Mobile app and garmin adapter kit. I would like to view charts on mfd and sonar on a tablet/Ipad or switch them. Will I be able to operate the Tablet w/chart anywhere on the boat.How difficult is this to do,I am not great at electronics, I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks, Ed

Hi Ed, The Garmin WiFi Adapter and BlueChart Mobile combination only let you share GPS, routes, and tracks at the moment. It may get more features in the future but currently your desire to share charts and sonar is not possible.

Looks like Garmin is including a POE adapter that is both AC and DC compatible.

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Anyone have any luck or experience connecting this wi-fi with another network?

I lost the manual and I need the password to reconnect. Any help would be appreciated!

I connected my device and did all the steps correctly and it all works great! But I had to disconnect my wifi antennae and reconnect everything but I misplaced the manual with the password and now I am lost!

Please help!

As a loyal Fitbit user for 8 years, I am appalled at the most recent update. I hate the most recent update! A graph should always make data easier to understand not harder. The updated app's graphs are ridiculously hard to read. What was wrong with the old graphs? Please let us choose to revert to the old app! Also, this morning the app showed no data when I looked for my sleep data and score, and when it finally showed data about 10 minutes later it showed over 6,000 steps, (I was still in bed). The data it was showing me was partly from yesterday and partly from today. I want a fitness app that I can trust. I am sad to say I will be moving on.

Update: I have moved on! I bought a new, stylish tracker from another maker that has a very thorough, detailed app. It is still new so I will need some time to see its pros and cons.

I too dislike the latest update. I agree with everyone's comments. Ugly, plain, hard to read. The last few updates have been ridiculous and are making the app less user friendly. Not only for sleep but in other areas as well.

Please, please change the sleep stages back to the previous format! This format is terrible to navigate and understand. I do charts/graphs and control charts to make data more absorbable, and this does the exact opposite!

Google is now becoming like AB-InBev because they're trying to destroy themselves by cannibalizing the FITBIT brand. Google, how can you legitimately have a conscience by doing this to so many of your customers? If you don't fix this, no one is going to buy any more products from you, including Android watches.

I see from reading here that there is no intent to restore the old format so if a company shows they are unwilling to listen to the people actually USING their product then I'm out. And now won't be gettin my husband one for his birthday.

I miss the ability to hover over each bump on my sleep cycle chart to see how long it was. I am awake for long periods of time in the middle of the night and it was helpful to know how long I was awake for when I wake up. The new view is so hard on the eyes and takes away important data.

Yeah, I literally made an account for this place just to tell Fitbit that I can't read my sleep data anymore. The one blue and red bar was great! Very self-explanatory and easy to show my doctor my sleep quality over time, too. Please change it back or give us the option to use the old layout!

However, the recent change in the sleep part of the app is terrible!! It is difficult to tell how much REM and Deep Sleep you got, the graph is illegible and you can no longer see how your oxygen level is. I hate it, and want it changed back to the way it was before! I also can't tell when I was awake because the graph cannot be read and understood.

I have had many Fitibt, Inspire, Inspire II, Charge, Charge HR, Versa, Versa 2 (3 of them because they kept dying). I follow a guy on Youtube who reviews smart watches/fitness trackers comparing their HR and sleep tracking performance using some standard and more reliable equipment. This is why I kept coming back to Fitbit because the sleep tracking performance is above average yet within a reasonable price range. Unfortunately, Google keeps making these changes to dumb down the supposed to be smart watch to the point where I will have to walk away. I re-watched all the review videos by the guy mentioned, I concluded the only affordable alternative to Fitbit now is Garmin, not all of them but just a handful that hold up sleep score agreement above 70%; they are Fenix7 Pro, Venus 3, Forerunner 965, and Epix2 Pro. There are always Apple watches that are very high on the score chart but of course they are expensive and you need an iPhone to go with it. The Oura ring is doable but it's not a watch and you need a subscription to use the full benefits of it. Whoop 3 & 4 are also alternatives that require membership/subscription, not cheap. Samsung has only one that's up to par but some said Samsung uses the same platform as Fitbit so if that's true buying a Samsung won't help us. Then there are Pixel watches that owned by Google, buying them is exactly what Google wants us to do. A very sad conclusion but once my last two Fitbit die which I expect in a year, I am going to look into Garmin, hopefully they will have something even better by than. What a shame that Google would destroy something good for profits. We could see that coming when Google's motto changed from "Don't be Evil" to "Do the Right Thing". They lowered their moral standard but can't even hold up to doing the right thing, obviously.

I am here to say all the same things as everyone else. I am so disappointed in the new format for sleep. Why would anyone think this was a good idea? It is hard to look at. The previous format was perfect and I can't imagine why it would have been changed. Please change it back so I don't have to change brands.

Hey Fitbit, I am adding my voice to those who have already commented that they don't like the new graphics. Not an improvement, definitely inferior. If you do not reinstate the old interface then I too will not be renewing my premium subscription and will be buying another product. Kindly comment/answer some of the questions posed.

I agree. The old sleep monitor was much more useful when working with doctors. I had 5 major surgeries in 18 months and each one turned me into an insomniac. I used the FitBit sleep graphs to show the doctors my progress in returning to normal sleep. I can no longer do that because now I can't calculate the sleep efficiency using the FitBit formula. At least give the "Time to fall asleep" number so I can calculate the sleep efficiency. After 13 years of using FitBit I think I'll have to find another brand of monitor. Very disappointed user.

Thanks for the information. I too am thinking that i will switch to Garmin as I have had it with Fitbit/Google. From what I can see the Google Pixel also uses the Fitbit platform so that would be out of the frying pan and into the fire.

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