Features
This section describes the most important features of the SkiTour App Professional in more detail. Here a short summary:
- Session features
- Alert features
- Auto-detection of UP/RUN phase
- Key lock feature
- Sensor history
- Map and track features
- Workout summary
Session features
This section describes the workout session features which are very similar among all of our Garmin Connect IQ™ applications. The current workout session status is indicated by a specific sign. Following table provides an overview about all possible states of a workout session.
| Session status | Visualization | Description |
|---|---|---|
| NOT STARTED | Blinking red border | Workout session (recording) was not started so far. This is the state after starting the app. Press the "START" button to start workout. |
| UP PHASE | Blinking orange border | Workout session (recording) is running and UP phase is active (e.g. when going upwards by lift) |
| RUN PHASE | Constant grey header/footer | Workout session (recording) is running and RUN phase is active. |
| IDLE | Blinking yellow pause sign | Workout session is in Idle Phase which means that the speed is below the user-defined limit. Activity recording is still enabled. |
| PAUSED | Blinking red stop sign | Workout session (recording) was manually paused via menu by selection of "Pause Session". No activity recording is done. It can be resumed at any point in time by entering the menu again and selecting "Resume Session". |
Start a workout session (NOT STARTED)
After starting the app the workout session status is "NOT STARTED" as the session has to be manually started by the user. This can be done by pressing the "START" button. This state is visualized by showing a blinking red boarder every two seconds as illustrates in following picture:
Workout session running (RUNNING)
After pressing the "START" button the first time after app start, the session status changes from "NOT STARTED" to "UP".
UP PHASE
When going upwards e.g. via lift the app is in UP phase. This state is visualized by showing a blinking orange boarder every two seconds as illustrates in following picture:
RUN PHASE
When driving downwards the app is in RUN phase. This state is visualized by a constant grey header/footer as illustrates in following picture:
IDLE PHASE
Whenever the speed goes below a user-defined limit (as configured in app settings) the app automatically enters the "IDLE" phase. This is visualized by showing a yellow pause sign in the middle of the screen and a yellow surrounding on the borders every two seconds. Following picture illustrates that mode:
When the speed goes above the app-specific speed limit, the app enters "RUNNING" mode again.
Manually paused session (PAUSED)
The user can manually pause the workout session at any time if the status is "UP", "RUN" or "IDLE". This can be done by pressing the "START" button. After that a menu is shown where the user can select among following choices by either pressing the touch screen or by up/down or left/right buttons:
| User selection | Description |
|---|---|
| Pause | Workout session is paused. This allows the user to navigate through the data pages. The workout session can be resumed again at any time by pressing "START" button and select "Resume". |
| Resume | Start or resume workout session |
| Save and exit | Save workout data and close the application. After synchronization with your watch or via Garmin Express Software the workout data will be uploaded to the Garmin cloud and will be visible via Garmin Connect. |
| Discard and exit | Discard session data and close the application. Please note that ALL the recorded workout data is lost! |
A paused session is visualized by showing a red stop sign in the middle of the screen and a red surrounding on the borders every two seconds as illustrated in following picture:
ALERT features
Already the FREE Version of SkiTour App Professional provides you basic ALERT features, e.g. to indicate the start and stop of the session recording.
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
In the PREMIUM version of the SkiTour App Professional following additional ALERT features are provided:
Distance alert feature
In order to use this feature, please configure the proper "ALERT1 mode" and "ALERT2 mode" according to following tables:
| ALERT1 mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Disabled | Feature is disabled. |
| Single distance alert | In this mode a distance ALERT is shown once when the user-defined distance (in km or miles) is reached. |
| Periodic distance alert | In this mode a distance ALERT is shown every time when the user-defined distance (in km or miles) elapsed. |
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
Heart rate alert feature
| ALERT2 mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Disabled | ALERT2 feature is disabled. |
| Heart rate above limit | In this mode a heart rate ALERT is shown when the user-defined limit (in beats per minute) is exceeded. If such an alert is shown then you have ~30 seconds time for reduce the heart rate below the limit, else a new alert is shown again. |
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
Phase switch alert feature
In order to use this feature, please configure the proper "ALERT2 mode" according to following tables:
| ALERT2 mode | Description |
|---|---|
| Disabled | Feature is disabled (no user-defined ALERT support). |
| Enabled | Feature is enabled and triggers an alert upon phase change (UP/RUN phase change) |
Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:
Auto-detection of UP/RUN phases
The SkiTour App Professional automatically switches between UP and RUN phase if the user-defined altitude delta is exceeded.
The tracking statistics of the SkiTour App Professional can be divided into following three main sections and some common data which is useful for all sections:
- UP data fields
- RUN data fields
- Other data fields
The SkiTour App Professional offers a huge amount of data fields which can be freely assigned to any place in the data pages in the PREMIUM version.
Note:
Please note that in the FREE Version not all data fields are available.
COMMON data fields
- Current altitude (ALT)
- Current heart rate (HR)
- Current heart rate Zone (HR ZONE)
- Current heart rate in percentage of the maximum heart rate (M HR%)
- Current temperature (TEMP)
- Current time (TIME)
- Current speed (SPEED)
- Current vertical speed (VSPD 30s)
- Maximum altitude (MAX ALT)
- Minimum altitude (MIN ALT)
- Total burned calories (KCAL)
- Total distance (DIST)
- Total elapsed time (ELAPS)
- Total vertical ascent (UP)
- Total vertical decent (DOWN)
UP data fields
- Average heart rate (UP AHR)
- Average vertical speed (UP AVSPD)
- Maximum heart rate (UP MHR)
- Maximum vertical speed (UP MVSPD)
- Total up distance (UP DIST)
- Total up time (UP TIME)
RUN data fields
- Average heart rate (R AHR)
- Average vertical speed (R AVSPD)
- Maximum heart rate (R MHR)
- Total run distance (R DIST)
- Total run time (R TIME)
Other data fields
- Current UP/RUN phase (PHASE)
- Number of splits (SPLITS)
- Total idle time (IDLE)
Screen lock feature
When the session is started, the screen lock feature can be activated by following sequence:
- Press "START" button.
- Scroll down until "Lock Screen" appears in the menu.
- Select "Lock Screen".
When the screen lock feature is active, only the "START" button will be handled anymore, all other buttons or touch screen inputs are ignored.
To disable the screen lock again, please perform following steps:
- Press "START" button.
- Scroll down until "Unlock Screen" appears in the menu.
- Select "Unlock Screen".
Sensor history
In the PREMIUM version the user can enable via app settings that following four charts are shown where the data is derived from the sensor history of the device:
- Elevation history in meters or feet
- Heart rate history in bpm
- Pressure history in hPa
- Temperature history (only internal temperature sensor) in degrees or fahrenheit
Note:
The sensor history is only available on devices with CIQ2 or higher and on devices with sensor history
Below some pictures for better illustration:
Map and track features
This application shows map information on Garmin devices with integrated map features. On all Garmin devices with CIQ 2 and higher it shows the current track as well as a downloaded track from dynamicWatch.
The current track is shown by enabling the map page in the app settings or by downloading a track from dynamicWatch via the watch menu entry "Navigation/Download Track".
When the map page is active following different modes are available which can be selected by pressing the "START" button:
- Current view
- Centers on current view and shows current position as blue marker and current track in black color.
- Optionally the downloaded track from dynamicWatch in red color.
- Zoom view
- Centers on current view and shows current position as blue marker and current track in black color.
- Optionally the downloaded track from dynamicWatch in red color.
- Allows zoom in and out via up and down buttons or respectively swipes up and down on devices with touch screen.
- Track view
- Shows the complete downloaded track from dynamicWatch in red color.
- Shows current position as blue marker if visible (means inside) in the current track.
- Browse view
- Allows different browse modes on devices where Garmin has build-in map features.
Following picture shows some of the offered modes:
Linking the app with dynamicWatch
Visit the dynamicWatch web site and sign up for a new account as illustrated in the figure below:
You can now create a new route for example by uploading a GPX file as shown in following figure:
After uploading the route, click on Back or the X icon to close the edit screen and make sure that this route is marked as your active route (the clock icon is black next to your active route) as shown below:
The SkiTour App Professional uses the Partner App Code system from dynamicWatch to download the routes. Before you can use this system, you need to enable this Partner App Code system. Click on Link your device and then click on Click to enable.
Copy the Partner Access Code to the clipboard
As last step, please add the 7-character partner access code to the app settings of the SkiTour App Professional.
If you later want to revoke access to your account from all partner apps, you can delete the PAC in Link Partner App in Settings.
For further details, please refer to the documentation of dynamicWatch
Workout summary
After saving the workout session a workout summary is shown on devices with CIQ2 and later with following information:
- Duration in the format m:ss, mm:ss, h:mm:ss or hh:mm:ss.
- Number or splits.
- Up time in the format m:ss, mm:ss, h:mm:ss or hh:mm:ss.
- Up distance in km or mi.
- Up vertical speed in m/h or feet/h
- Up average heart rate in bpm.
- Up maximum heart rate in bpm.
- Run time in the format m:ss, mm:ss, h:mm:ss or hh:mm:ss.
- Run distance in km or mi.
- Elevation gain in meter or feet.
- Elevation loss in meter or feet.
- Calories consumption in kcal.