Looks like stuff like this has come up here, but not recently, and I can’t find a resolution.
My Garmin 540 is set to have no GPS on the indoor profile, and my Xert workout player app in Garmin Connect is also set to have GPS off (I just noticed the little message about returning to the indoor profile from some GUID-looking profile at the end of a workout).
It’s not a huge deal, but it’s also a pain to try to verify whether RideWithGPS needs my ride to cross the privacy zone boundary before it recognizes that it needs to trim the part close to my house. It would be much nicer to just not have GPS data of the “cracked-out-spider” type that’s dropped on my home address. I don’t even have a location configured in Garmin, and I haven’t had a chance to go for a “real” ride since getting the 540 for use with xert, so it’s never been out of the basement.
I’ve seen some indication that folks used to have to leave and reselect their indoor profile on the Garmin to avoid using GPS, but it looks like that was theoretically resolved, and again, it looks like the Xert Workout Player actually subs in its own profile? Which, again, should be set to GPS off via its settings in Garmin Connect?
I’m repeating myself, so stopping before I circle, but is there a way to stop mapping my basement rides?
Looking forward to intentional GPS and trying out Magic Buckets in the real world tomorrow, I hope, but I’m mostly a basement cyclist these days.
Can you check this thread and see if the solution works for you as well. If so, I’ll get that added to our Knowledgebase. I think I have an updated article drafted for the Xert Workout Player for Garmin ConnectIQ that simply hasn’t been published yet.
The steps there don’t align exactly with what I have available unless I’m missing something, which is always a possibility.
There’s no “Activities & App Management” in Garmin Connect on my iPhone. There is an “Activity Profiles” section, but this only leads to the INDOOR, CYCLOCROSS, MOUNTAIN, and ROAD profiles I’ve selected.
The ConnectIQ app does have settings for the Xert Workout Player, including “GPS Enabled,” but this is already toggled off (I misspoke earlier and attributed this setting to Garmin Connect, not ConnectIQ).
So I think I’ve already done the closest thing that thread points to, to no avail. My expectation is that what looks like a temporary profile created by the workout player should have the GPS-off configuration set via that setting in ConnectIQ, but that appears not to be working correctly. Or there’s a separate reason for GPS data being collected?
One more bit of information to add into this: I did an indoor ride using just Magic Buckets, and it didn’t record any GPS data. I’m thinking that means that it used the Garmin Indoor profile and respected the GPS off setting, but that when using the workout player, the temporary profile created isn’t getting the GPS off setting from the workout player’s Garmin ConnectIQ app settings.
I’ve just turned GPS on in the Xert Workout Player’s settings in the ConnectIQ app, saved, turned it back off, saved, and synced. I have no particular reason to think that it’s a matter of the setting not being written to the app, but it seemed worth a try. Hopefully I won’t get a chance to test it today in favor of riding in the real world…