Your Garmin help, please

I found that TBT would sometimes just cease to give any directions at all, or would fail to recognise I had returned to the route if I left it, so would get stuck. I turned off TBT and just follow the line on the map. The advantage of TCX was that it tells you a distance until the next coursepoint, along with what kind of coursepoint it is (left turn, straight on, etc). TBT won't tell you that until you're close. 'Distance to Next' is not the distance to the next turning, but the next waypoint. Sometimes the TCX coursepoints are useless (as @danstuff said) but the ability to look down and see how far until the next time I had to pay attention is really useful.

The GPX files don't contain TBT info, it's your Garmin and its installed maps take the GPX track and then give you TBT. That's why it takes a bit of processing when you select 'follow course'.

I don't know about that distance to next stuff. I don't use that.

Yeah, that would work but I meant something different. Edit the course and set its colour to bright green or something. Then set it to "Always Display". Then you can follow the green line on your map without the Garmin trying to route you somewhere wrong and presumably uses less processing power as it's not calculating the course over its installed maps. You don't get stuff like Distance to Destination but it's better than the Garmin turning a 400k audax into a 600k because of its fucking stupid routing (which happened to me on the weekend and was why I stopped the Follow Course option in the first place, now I think about it).

Yep, I've had the same. Sometimes stopping and starting a Course will get TBT back.

Most audax routes I use are GPX tracks and don't have waypoints so that would explain why Dist to Dest is always the same as Dist to Next. They're always measuring the finish.

Maybe I'll try TCX again and see if I can get RWGPS to leave out cuesheet entries but include waypoints. Then Dist. To Next will show distance to next audax Control rather than me having to keep an eye on the distance all the time (assuming I add in the Controls as waypoints of course).

huh, I was under the impression that's what my method was doing - it instantly brings up the line on the map (rather than doing that "calculating" thing) when I load the map and it just looks like its overlaid the line I drew on ridewithgps on top of the map. Fairly sure it's not doing any of its own routing at all.*

I am on a Touring Edge though, so this stuff might be different on higher end models.

I have all that "recalculation" stuff turned off as well, so there's no funny business if I go off course (learned the hard way on this!).

*of course, being garmin, you're never entirely sure what is going on.

It sounds like you're both describing the same thing - you have a line on the map that is derived only from the GPX track you gave it (as either a GPX or TCX file). I know my Edge Touring has no option to 'always display' (not that I've found anyway), but you can select a route and it will display it. If you have TBT turned off (as @Brookly_Bay has) then it won't process anything, it just shows the route. Maybe it's how the two devices do the same thing. Who knows. Fuck Garmin, use Android, is my growing feeling...

If you're choosing Follow Course and use a GPX or TCX the Garmin has to route it over the maps it has installed. It can't give you TBT if it doesn't have a map installed with corners, can it?

Maybe it appears instant but my 400k audax route on the weekend spent a good 30 seconds+ "calculating", even if the Always Display meant that my bright green line was visible. Once it has finished calculating the course, you can't really see the Always Display green line, it is covered by the standard PINK Garmin navigation line.

Touring Edge - I have no idea about this model so none of what I'm saying may apply.

I think @hamrack has it right above - Touring model has no "always display" setting, so we're probably talking about the same idea, but the implementation is totally different for our different models.

Whatever length route (admittedly I've only loaded up to 180km) you don't see any "calculating" screen - it just instantly shows the line. Touring doesn't have a "follow course" bit either - just press "where to" > "saved" > "courses" & select what you want.

So what I'm oh so helpfully saying is: I think its possible, but no idea how to do it on your unit.

how does the regeneration calculator from garmin puzzle its numbers ?

what factors count in the calculation ?

TBT with TCX file works good on Garmin 200,500,510.

rotated and came off the mount when i pushed the down page button, no idea how I managed it.

suggestions on clearing these scratches up?

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Live with them

Toothpaste used to work on CDs but touchscreens?

This or similar shine products

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it's not touch screen

Then have at it!

use polish for acrylic glass /plexi

My 500 rather annoyingly doesn't have a lanyard point.

Maybe you could open a little hole next to a screw..
http://www.bicycles.net.au/forums/viewtopic.php?t=69094&start=25

Whoever it was who suggested using a lanyard a few pages back, you sir are a star. Saved the etrex from several tumbles already. The mount is so crappy it's embarrassing. A combination of lanyard and wedging it against the front light means it stays put from now on.

Oh hello...

Actually, thinking about it, how strong is that sugru stuff? Would it take the jolt force of a Garmin coming off the bars? Could fashion myself a little lanyard loop out of that and save taking a drill to it.

Can I use a Garmin 500 with a USB ANT+ stick from another brand (bkool in my case)?

Ant+ is ant+ so the answer is yes.
https://www.thisisant.com/

the main question I had is because the bkool only accepts Ant+ 2.0 and I didn't know if the Edge 500 was communicating on 2.0 or something else, but found the answer and it's simpler, the usb stick doesn't communicate with the edge, it communicates with the sensors (cadence, heart rate and power) so it's all good.