Big Heart

If you want "big heart rate" this is the datafield for you! This datafield displays your heart rate data using the biggest possible number size to fill up the available space. Optionally, the background color will change according to your current heart rate zone. Install the app from the ConnectIQ app and add the BigHeart datafield to a screen profile. You can find BigHeart inside the ConnectIQ list when adding a datafield. In your screen profile, choose the nunber of datafields that you want and select BigHeart in the biggest available space. This will make the heart rate number easy to find and easy to read. No space is wasted on a label or units. The datafield automatically adjusts to the number of digits in your heart rate output: 1-3 digits. Please see the "what's new" section for a description of the available settings and features. Edge computers are almost always used in a portrait orientation. But it is also possible to mount the Edge cycling computer rotated by 90 degrees to give a landscape orientation. If you set up a screen profile with a single datafield, BigHeart will then give you the biggest possible heart rate nunber!! Even if you are using portrait mode and multiple datafields on the screen, BigHeart will still be able to make your heart rate number bigger and stand out better on the display. Some things to note for landscape mode: 1. Look down at your mount - if there are two small screws facing upwards, you can undo them and rotate the inner part of the mount by 90 degrees. This changes the tab alignment so that you can mount your Edge rotated. You want the Edge power on/off button at the top right (from the cyclist's perspective). 2. None of the other datafields, screens or Garmin menus will be rotated, so keep that in mind! 3. The Edge screen is POLARIZED, so if you also wear polarized sunglasses you won't be able to see anything on the display in the rotated orientation. Sorry, this just doesn't work. If you have questions, feedback or ideas for other features, please send an email to [email protected] Also, please take a look at our other apps at https://lapdeltapro.com BUY ME A COFFEE? I've been using Garmin devices for a long time and started writing ConnectIQ apps to provide some missing features that I wanted for my training and racing. I think they will be useful to other Garmin users so I've been releasing them through the ConnectIQ store. If you would like to support and encourage this work, please feel free to buy me a coffee. It would be much appreciated! https://buymeacoffee.com/biketelemetry

VERSION HISTORY 1.0 - first released version of BigHeart SETTINGS The following options are available through the settings page on the ConnectIQ app: 1. Screen Orientation: you can choose between: (a) Portrait: the standard Edge orientation. (b) Landscape: if you want to mount the Edge in a sideways orientation. (c) Automatic (default): the datafield will choose the mode automatically based on the aspect ratio of the datafield on the screen. This is the default since it generally does the right thing. 2. Smoothing (1-60s): heart rate can be smoothed (averaged) over 1 to 60 seconds. The default is 3 second smoothing. 3. Display Mode: this switches BigHeart between light mode and dark mode: (a) Automatic (default): BigHeart will follow the device's setting. (b) Light Mode: BigHeart will use light mode regardless of the device's setting. (c) Dark Mode: BigHeart will use dark mode regardless of the device's setting. 4. Show Heart Icon (default enabled): this enables or disables a small heart icon to indicate that this is a heart rate datafield. 5. Heart Rate Zones: this determines whether BigHeart changes the background color to indicate the current heart rate zone: (a) Off (default): heart rate zones are disabled. (b) Percentage of Maximum HR: heart rate zones are enabled, and the Z1-Z7 maximum values are specified as a percentage of Maximum HR. This is convenient since the percentages can be set up once, and then only the Maximum HR number needs to be adjusted if that changes. (c) BPM: heart rate zones are enabled, and the Z1-Z7 maximum values are specified in BPM, and the Maximum HR value is ignored. 6. Alternative Colors (default disabled): when enabled, background and font colors are modified as preferred by some users. 7. Maximum HR (1-250BPM): specifies the Maximum HR in units of BPM (default 180BPM). This is used only if "percentage of Maximum HR" is enabled. 8. Z1-Z7 Color: the color of each heart rate zone can be selected independently using drop-down menus. The default settings are gray, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and purple (from Z1 to Z7). Different shades are used for light mode and dark mode. 9. Z1-Z7 Maximum: the maximum heart rate for each heart rate zone is specified here (range is 1-250). These can be interpreted as percentages or BPM based on the "Heart Rate Zones" setting. The default values are intended for use as percentages of Maximum HR. You can interpret the zones as follows: Z1 color is used until the Z1 maximum is hit, then Z2 color is used until the Z2 maximum is hit, and so on. More precisely, the heart rate zone is the lowest numbered zone where the current heart rate is less than or equal to that zone's maximum value. If you want to use fewer zones, use the lower numbered zones only and set the maximum value for unused higher numbered zones to 0. Note that the Garmin device's color palettes are limited, particularly on Edge devices prior to the 550, 850 and 1050 generation. The color mappings have been chosen to be the best available. It may be necessary to increase screen brightness to improve legibiility, or switch to the alternative colors settings.