Hydration and nutrition on Karoo

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Eduardo Aguilera

"Is there any possibility of having reminders or notifications for feeding and hydration on Karoo?"

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    Ali

    There is no integration or an exclusive feature on the Karoo.

    However, you can still work this out in a couple of ways.

    • You can set an Auto-lap timer for every 20 minutes or you can set reminders on your phone for every 20mins that will show up on the Karoo 2 drawer once you have your phone connected.
    • You can set alerts on your phone for Nutrition or Hydration, and those notification can show up on your Karoo 2 if you they are paired.
    • You can add POIs as Nutrition reminders at certain distances based on your avg. speed and those POIs will notify you on the Drawer.
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    Kevin Williams

    Or you all could just add one. Not sure why it is that difficult that it necessitates the constant resistance. The Karoo is better than the Garmin 1050 in every way except eat/drink alerts. It shouldn't require any sort of workaround, or phone reminders. I don't understand the reluctance to add a feature that so many ask for. 

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    Eduardo Aguilera

    Is there any intention to add this feature?? I seen that for K2 was asked for, but is it really a feature in develop whether for K2 or new third generation?

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    Paulo Almeida
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    I just add POIs as Nutrition reminders at certain distances based on my Speed avg. and here i want Drink or Eat and those POIs notify-me on the Drawer, it works, but is true a better way is see it in a new Drawer that can show this type of alerta.

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    Vinapp

    Hi all, i am working in a Extension with nutrition, hidratation or others alarms with new SDK. I share it soon.

     

     

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    John Pfennings

    Hi @vinap sideloaded your app but where can I make an account as I need to register?

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    Fraser Hocks

    Yea must say a basic time or calorie count alarm would be nice.  I always forget to eat while riding. My very basic Lezyne GPS had one, seems odd that a high end GPS like the Karoo 3 doesn't.

    Vinap, I loaded the Vin app, but the alarms didn't sound when I set one.  Am I missing something in the setup? 

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    Vinapp
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    Hi Fraser, you must sideload Vin HkE and configure alarms, not Vinapp.

    https://github.com/maduwatas/Vin-HkE#hke-installation

    Alarms configuration: https://github.com/maduwatas/Vin-HkE#alerts

    Latest version 1.3.4: https://github.com/maduwatas/Vin-HkE/releases/tag/latest

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    John Pfennings

    https://github.com/timklge/karoo-reminder does it in a effective simple way

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    Fraser Hocks

    Ah my apologies. Once I tested it on the bike and running the Vin app alerts worked perfectly.

    Thanks for that John, might give that app a try as well 😎

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    Vinapp
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    great!!

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    Kevin Williams

    There are two apps here. Any feedback on which one works better or is easier? Thanks.

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    Fraser Hocks
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    Iv installed the Vinapp first off. Seems really good, but way more in there than a simple reminder set which I was looking for.

    I've since installed the Karoo reminders app that John suggested. Obviously only used it for a couple of rides, so far but find it really good. Works a treat.

    Only improvements I'd suggest are:

    An option to have a position of the banner (currently only shows at the top of the screen). Would be nice to have a top middle and bottom of screen option.

    Only three different sound options for alarms. Would be nice to have a few more sounds for different alarms. Iv got a hydration, food (calories) and max heart rate alarm set, so that's all the sounds used.

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    Kevin Williams

    Both these extensions work really well. You can just use VinApp as an eat/drink alarm without bothering with any of the other stuff. I am a fan of pink, haha, so I have a slight preference for the TimKlge app. But either of these really round out the Karoo feature set. For the life of me I don't know why this wasn't already part of the feature set on the device. Very useful and removes the only thing that (for me) made the Garmin 1050 attractive. I am so forgetful about eating and drinking on the bike. Always have been.

    A big thanks to both developers. 

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