Gear Tracker Help

 

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Overview

 

Gear Tracker is designed to track your runs/rides/walks and swims (Gear Sport) and allow direct upload to Strava. Settings and features are designed to enhance the experience during your activity and not to provide detailed analytics, this is left the experts. i.e. Primarily Strava, and other platforms that can sync with Strava.

 

Settings

 

Tap this to select your activity type, each tap will cycle to the next options.


Available activity types are:
Running / Riding / Walking / Swimming (Gear Sport)

Tap to choose your preferred distance unit.


Available distance units are:
Kilometres / Miles

Tap to choose your preferred pace measure, this setting will switch the in tracking avg pace/avg speed display with your preferred option.

 

Available options are:

Pace / Speed

Tap to choose the sensors you would like to use. For activities that do not use the pedometer (Riding / Swimming) the GPS option is compulsory and cannot be deselected, for Running and Walking the GPS can be turned off for indoor activities.

Note: The Pedometer sensor is automatically selected for activities that support the pedometer (Running / Walking)


Available options are:
GPS / Heart Rate

Choose your preferred logging interval. The lower the logging interval the more track points you will record.

Note: The lower the logging interval the larger the logs will be. Only use lower logging where necessary.

 

Recommended settings are:
Running (4–6 secs) / Riding (3-5 secs) / Waking (4-7 secs) / Swimming (4-7 secs)

Tap to choose your preferred pause mode.

Note: Race mode disables pause so it’s not available and cannot be accidently invoked during a race.

Note: Due to reliability issues On (Auto) is not currently available, I’m working on this and hoping to have it available soon.

Available options are:

Off (Race Mode) / On (Manual)

Tap to choose your preferred screen mode.

Note: Be aware ambient and screen on modes can use considerably more battery and should only be used for shorter activities.
Note: In bright light the Tizen OS activates Outdoor Mode automatically, when activated this will override ambient mode.

Available options are:
Gear Default / Ambient Low / Ambient Medium / Ambient High / Always On

Tap to choose your preferred Feedback method:
Note: Sound options play different beep tones to signify GPS lock, lap approaching, lap completed, auto paused, auto resumed.


Available options are:

None / Sound / Vibrate / Sound & Vibrate

Use this setting to authenticate with Strava, the authentication screen will take you to a web page on your phone which allows you to authorize Gear Tracker to upload your activity logs.

 

 

Intervals & Notification Setup

 

Select this to turn On/Off intervals. Intervals are made up of the following optional settings:

Warm Up / Go (Run, Ride) / Rest / Repeat / Cool Down

 

Each option can be set to one of the following settings, to change the type, tap the centre of the screen while in the interval setup to cycle to the next option.

Off / Distance / Time / Manual

 

Manual setting requires you to manually press the back button to advance to the next interval.

Note: To set 1 km/mi notifications, simply set the Go interval to Distance of 1 km/mi. Each interval will double beep/vibrate with a 10 second warning and then single beep at the completion of the interval.

 

 

 

Basic Use

Once you have your settings as you would like you can start an activity by pressing the play icon on the home screen. Pressing the play button will display a screen which will attempt to get a GPS signal prior to tracking. For activities that require GPS (Riding / Swimming) you will not be able to start your activity until you have a GPS lock. For activities that can use the Pedometer (Running / Walking) you can start your activity immediately, if there is no GPS lock when the activity is started Gear Tracker will use the pedometer until it acquires a GPS lock.

GPS (Standalone vs Tethered)

Gear Tracker has GPS status screen when acquiring a GPS lock prior to starting an activity and during the tracking of your activity. You will find this as the far-left hand side screen when tracking. This screen shows the status of the GPS. The GPS pin will be white, and the status will be “Tracking…” when you have a GPS lock, and if not, it will display “Searching…”. Around the pin will be either a green outline of a watch or a blue outline of a phone. These are indications as to what mode your GPS is in. The Green outline of a watch indicates your GPS is in Standalone mode and is using your watch GPS. The blue outline of a phone indicates that your watch is tethered to your phone and Gear Tracker is using your phones GPS to track.

You cannot have Bluetooth connected to your phone and use your watch GPS, if you are tethered to your phone and turn off your phone GPS you will lose signal.

You will get optimal battery usage using your phones GPS in tethered mode.

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