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    Damien Visorando   Thursday 17 Oct 2024 10:13:36

    Hi Phill,

    Indeed, there is a limitation on automatic synchronization with Garmin. This is intentional, as it allows for precise control over which routes one wants to sync to their Garmin device. Therefore, only "starred" routes in the "My Routes" tab are synced. We understand that this might feel limiting, but we also want to avoid unwanted or frustrating synchronizations.

    However, we could work on a simpler process to create your own copy of an existing route. This would make it easier to copy any route into "My Routes", allowing for a quicker and smoother process to star it and then sync it.

    As you may have read, Plotaroute has been acquired by Visorando. We are still in the process of familiarizing ourselves with the tool, but updates and improvements will be coming soon.

    Thank you for your feedback

     

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    Phill Berry Sunday 08 Sep 2024 17:31:50

    Hey Plotaroute folks,

    It feels like there is a limitation around the sync to Garmin functionality, I have a few 'Bookmarked' routes in my profile, and the only way I see to sync them to my Garmin is to edit and create my version of the route, which if I'm honest seems a long-winded way of doing it. Is there any way to directly sync a bookmarked course, or have I missed something?

    If there isn't a way to do this other than the above, could I perhaps put this as a feature request for consideration? So that when you sync from a bookmarked page it adds the route to 'My Routes' as a copy, therefore avoiding the possibility of a nasty 'surprise' when I'm out for my run/ride/hike and relying on my Garmin?

    By no means a complaint of any sort, I feel this would be extremely useful for existing users to take out a step in the process that could be automated.

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    Helene Plotaroute   Friday 10 May 2024 14:39:19

    Hi,

    did you read this page?

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    Robert Derick   Tuesday 07 May 2024 03:16:35

    how do i move a bookmarked route to my routes to start the transfer to garmin

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    Jon Collins   Monday 05 Feb 2024 11:12:48

    I do not have a settings page on my Garmin Connect. This is far too technical and a lot of hassle.

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    plotaroute admin   Thursday 20 Jul 2023 14:43:38

    Nothing has changed at our end Nigel, but maybe Garmin Connect has changed. As far as I know the Garmin's API that we use for our Garmin Sync process still doesn't support turn arrow coursepoints, so I think we exclude directions with this, but when you import a route to Garmin Connect it will presumably prcoess whatever coursepoints are in the file being imported. I wasn't aware that had changed. 

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    Nigel Taylor   Thursday 20 Jul 2023 13:11:42

    Has something changed here recently!?

    I've been in the habit of just exporting my routes and copying them via a wire to NEWFILES on Garmin to retain directions etc.

    BUT - today whilst creating an event/race on Garmin, I imported a route into Garmin Connect on Web, and noticed it had retained all my manual directions I added on Plotaroute. (the arrows became something generic, but the text labels were retained)...looking at the Map on my Watch after the event has synced, I can see the direction text labels are retained there after a sync too.

    Does this mean we can now do a totally wireless sync of Plotaroute routes that INCLUDE our manual directions? 😊 (and just need to use manual copy to NEWFILES if we want the extra features of direction arrow and other pop-up icon support?).

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    plotaroute admin   Monday 17 Apr 2023 08:39:55

    Hi Adam - the Garmin API doesn't enable us to send coursepoints with turn arrows, so custom directions cannot be transferred using the Garmin Sync feature I'm afraid.

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    Adam Rykala   Saturday 15 Apr 2023 18:08:06

    I've noticed that if I use the custom directions as waypoints for Up Ahead. -- it works a treat if i download the route as a FIT file and copy to /Garmin/NewFiles it works a treat, but if you use the starred sync option the names of the Up Ahead points are replaced with their types..

    So if for example I plot a route and create a Up Ahead point for a Summit called Pen Y Fan - using the direct FIT copy works a treat, but if I use the Garmin Premium Sync in Connect and on the watch it shows with a name of Summit

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    Mark Sibert   Tuesday 20 Sep 2022 21:26:23

    Well darn.  I just upgraded to premium and was hoping to use this feature.  But having the Garmin directions instead of my own is not useful to me.  I may still play with it a bit to see if there's any benefit at all.  I know the Garmin APIs are woefully inadequate, so not blaming the developers here at all.  Having written ConnectIQ apps for Garmin devices myself, and knowing how slow they are to fix things, I wouldn't count on the behavior changing any time soon (if ever).

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    Peter Höglund   Friday 13 May 2022 14:46:46

    If its a Garmin watch you have, export from plotaroute with fit file format and you will get longer names on waypoints (course points).

    Copy file to watch with cable to newfiles folder or if you have an Android mobile, use gexporter ciq to wirelessly transfer it.

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    plotaroute admin   Friday 13 May 2022 07:28:12

    I'm not sure what you mean by "Key waypoints" Darren. Do you mean waypoint names. These are truncated to ensure compatability with GPS devices. 

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    Darren Giddins Thursday 12 May 2022 22:43:21

    Hi. is there a character maximum for Key waypoints? My route displays correctly on plotaroute but after exporting the Route as a GPX file, I find that on the device the route is there but the Key waypoints are only a few characters long.

    N.b I tried exporting the file as a TCX file and then exporting it from Garmin connect but even then the Key waypoints are stripped out. The original creation was in OS maps online, a UK based programme that has recently changed the quality of their GPX export files annoyingly!

     

    Cheers

    Darren, 

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    plotaroute admin   Thursday 22 Jul 2021 21:52:07

    Hi Philip - you need to be on your My Routes page (select My Routes from the menus). There is a star symbol that you can click on in the list of routes, assuming you're  using the desktop site. On the mobile site you'll need to select the route from the My Routes page first, then you'll get some options that include the star.

    We have further details in our guide on How To Sync Your Routes to Garmin.

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    Phillip Charlton Thursday 22 Jul 2021 19:42:48

    so I paid for the premium version to easily transfer courses to my Garmin 1030. The directions indicate to star a course...but I only see a heart. Help. 

     

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    plotaroute admin   Thursday 18 Jun 2020 08:38:18

    Thanks for this feedback Johan. Unfortunately Garmin's API doesn't currently offer any way for us to send our own route directions, but we're hoping that this will be something they add in a future update. In the meantime, you would need to use the manaul file transfer methods to transfer any directions saved with your route. 

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    Johan Lundberg Wednesday 17 Jun 2020 09:47:36

    Love the Garmin integration but to be really useful for me there needs to be a way to get rid of the directions that garmin adds to all imported files.

    The manual way to do this is to export the cousrse as a fit file and maually add it to the watch, and bypass the creation of directions. leaving the manually added POI/Nav points

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