Garmin

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K5 Gus 3 Jan 4:09pm, 3 Jan 2025 6,313 posts	0 K5 Gus It knows you were in Run mode, and it was counting the steps, and will know your average stride length on a run ?
Flatlander 3 Jan 4:17pm, 3 Jan 2025 3,401 posts	0 Flatlander I haven't looked into this in great detail, but might solar flares affect the Garmin satellites? There was a strong X1.24 flare at 11:39 GMT this morning.
Nellers 3 Jan 4:24pm, 3 Jan 2025 44,427 posts	0 Nellers What Gus said. I have the 735xt and it also has an indoor run mode for treadmills which bases pace/distance off an average stride length (or possibly some algorithm which links stride length to HR if available perhaps) and is usually fairly close to what I feel like I'm doing, so if it's not got a GPS signal it will be able to give a pretty close estimate based on that.
Bazoaxe 3 Jan 4:56pm, 3 Jan 2025 27,846 posts	0 Bazoaxe It was about 11:50 I went so that’s close flatlander and might explain why it didn’t connect initially. A good shout on the steps being part of the calculation.
flanker 3 Jan 5:29pm, 3 Jan 2025 21,360 posts	0 flanker Flatlander wrote:but might solar flares affect the Garmin satellites @Flatlander Assuming you mean GPS satellites rather than Garmin ones, yes, they can. It's one of the reasons (although the main one is that GPS is highly vulnerable to malicious interference) there's now a push to develop other solutions such as quantum navigation and visual positioning (VPS). These also should be more accurate and not subject to regional variances in accuracy or be impacted by things such as adverse weather, architecture, or EMR. [Warning: it's a deep rabbit hole :-)]
Flatlander 3 Jan 6:47pm, 3 Jan 2025 3,403 posts	0 Flatlander @flanker Yes, I did mean GPS, but I used "Garmin" because we are on a Garmin thread. Thanks for the information about developments. (Yes, I know about those kinds of rabbit holes ). Whenever there are strong solar flares, I get a message from my solar panels inverter that there it has had a problem, which is what made me think about the connection with Bazoaxe's Garmin problem.
larkim 7 Jan 1:08pm, 7 Jan 2025 26,363 posts	0 larkim Not strictly Garmin, but thought this was interesting - I wonder how the runners of the affected areas cope! flightradar24.com
3M 8 Jan 12:07am, 8 Jan 2025 25,494 posts	0 3M I'm guessing air defence systems don't lock on to Garmin watches in those areas, at least!
fetcheveryone 8 Jan 11:52am, 8 Jan 2025 31,450 posts	0 fetcheveryone Garmin Connect appears to be 😵 at the moment.
Oranj 8 Jan 12:16pm, 8 Jan 2025 4,410 posts	0 Oranj Yep, all down connect.garmin.com