Upcoming Elevation Problem and Help Needed...

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Joel Cohen

• April 23, 2021 12:15

I setup a custom profile and one of the data screens includes a) ascent b) grade and c) the upcoming elevation graph.

The ascent metrics and grade metric display but the upcoming elevation graph never displays anything. 

Worth noting, the same custom profile has a "map" data screen which properly displays the my location while I am riding so a) the GPS must be working and b) the upcoming elevation should also be working.

Would appreciate help to get the upcoming elevation working.

Thanks!   

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  Yves Sabourin

  • April 23, 2021 12:41

  You have to ride a planned route in order the elevation graph to shows up.  

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  Joel Cohen

  • April 23, 2021 12:44

  @ Yves, much thanks for the fast response, it is greatly appreciated.  I will test that the next time that I ride.

   

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  Yves Sabourin

  • April 23, 2021 12:58

  When you are not riding a planned route,  I think the device should show an incoming elevation anyway based on your current direction.   This would be a nice enhancement. 

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  Joel Cohen

  • April 23, 2021 13:40

  @ Yves, agreed as this is what I expected to on this morning's ride which is precisely why I asked the question!  Especially given that the GPS functionality knows where you are!

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  Jami

  • April 23, 2021 18:20

  Hey Joel and Yves!

  To confirm what Yves said - yes you must be on a route of some sort for the Karoo to know where you are going and provide that data.

  I can see where you're coming from, but if you do not have a route loaded, it does not know if you are remaining on the road that you're on or turning in 100m so it is unable to tell you what ascent to expect, unless it assumed you weren't going to make any turns for the next few km. Then it would be aggravating because it usually wouldn't be correct since most people don't just stay on one road the whole time.

  I hope that helps to explain it a bit!

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  Joel Cohen

  • April 23, 2021 20:12

  @ Yves, much thanks for the explanation which makes perfect sense.  That said, I have added a number of routes and will test it out!

   

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  Yves Sabourin

  • April 23, 2021 20:19

  I understand that the Karoo can not figure out where your going when you ride without a route.  However, if it could assume your going straight and reset incoming elevation data every time you make a turn that would be better than nothing. 

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  Joel Cohen

  • April 23, 2021 20:31

  Agreed noting that is what I expected it to do but know understand why it did not do so!

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  Donald Newlands

  • May 02, 2021 05:24

  I agree it would make a lot sense to show the current ride profile when a route is not available.

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  Christian Renner

  • November 14, 2024 08:52

  Absolutely agree on this. I find it a very poor implementation that the upcoming elevation field is empty when you do not have a route loaded. Either simply fall-back to the history elevation in this case or make a prediction (Wahoo is doing the latter, maybe Garmin as well). Either would be acceptable (with the prediction being my favorite). Otherwise, it kinda means that I would need different ride profile for following a route or not (in order to prevent a more-or-less pointless data page).

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