![]() With all the prep work taken care of we head out for a ride. On the Edge you can enable or disable given/cached segments if you don’t want them to trigger. During the ride itself it isn’t real-time, nor is it pulling up random segments based on your exact location during the ride. And of course your best effort too.Īgain, all of this is pre-loaded prior to you pressing the start button on your ride. The leaderboard info will include the segment leader (KOM), as well as information about the efforts of those that you follow. This of course also includes the segment length.Īdditionally, you’ll get leaderboard information. Well for starters, you’ll get elevation information about the segment as well as a map of the segment. Obviously, not all devices have WiFi, so that’ll vary by device.Īnytime your device connects on one of those three avenues it’ll download the segments to your device. This provides the highway that your Edge device needs to download that package from Strava. This can be done in one of three ways: Bluetooth Smart (via your phone and Garmin Connect Mobile), WiFi (via WiFi network), and USB (via Garmin Express software). Next you take your Edge device and connect it to Garmin Connect. ![]() Now that we know what segments will show up, Strava essentially puts that in a FedEx package for Garmin. The area of interest is defined by what you’ve set in your profile. Usually less than 20 segments – they’ve said they’re aiming for quality over quantity. Meanwhile, the third one is where Strava does some calculations behind the scenes and comes up with a handful of segments that are interesting in your area. This means that if you’ve got those segments that are marked as favorite or ones you want to do better on, it’ll mark those for Garmin to send to your device. The first two are fairly straight forward. In between those two acting as a middleman is the Garmin Connect platform.įirst, starting on the Strava side it’ll prepare segments to load onto your Edge device with the following conditions:Ī) Any segments you’ve starred (favorited)Ĭ) A small collection of dynamically curated segments from your city So how does it work from a technical standpoint? Well, first off you’ve basically got two pieces at work here: The Strava site, and the Garmin Edge unit. Given the screen real estate of the Edge 520 is the smallest of all of the supported units, it’s fair to assume the experience will be pretty similar on the larger units.įinally, before we get into all the details, it’s worth noting that the Live Segments functionality is only available to Strava Premium members. I’ve spent a bit of time with the Edge 520 using the functionality on a handful of segments nearby me, so I’ve got the gist of things. ![]() All of these devices will get an update in Q3 (so between now and the end of September) that enables this functionality. ![]() While one might have assumed this would only be added t o the just announced Edge 520, this is actually coming to a host of devices – including the Garmin Edge 510, Edge 810, and Edge 1000. This functionality allows you to race against various Strava course records to try and beat them, all while giving you updated status each second of the way. In addition to all of the Garmin new devices that have been announced today, they also announced support for Strava directly on your Edge handlebar unit. You can use Garmin Express (desktop app) or the Garmin Webupdater (also desktop app) to install these. Note: As of August 25th, 2015 Garmin has now released firmware updates for the Edge 510, Edge 810, and Edge 1000.
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