PulseLink — GPS Group Safety & Activity Sharing
· v2.6.0
About
Apart, but never out of touch.
PulseLink connects your Garmin watch to the people and places you care about. See who is where on a GPS compass radar, follow how everyone is doing with live heart rate, steps and distance, keep an eye on home through a spare phone, and get a nudge on your wrist when someone reaches or leaves a place that matters. It is your watch face all day, and everyone's live screen the moment you head out together.
MAIN FEATURES
- Create a group and see everyone's heart rate, steps and distance on one screen.
- The compass radar shows where each member is, with direction and distance. Save a place, share it with the group, and get a notification when somebody arrives or leaves.
- A live camera on your wrist. Turn a spare phone into a fixed camera and keep its view right on your watch face. Share it with the group, with motion detection built in.
- Your own photos on the watch face too. Store up to five and switch between them with one touch.
WHERE IT FITS
- Keeping an eye on family. A parent's daily walk, a child's way to school. You are told when they arrive and when they leave.
- The stray alert buzzes your wrist as family moves away, at 100m, 200m, 500m, 1km, 2km, 3km, 4km, 5km, 10km, 20km and 50km. It tells you as they come back, too.
- Trail and running groups can check the distance and direction to everyone as the pack spreads out.
- Watching a pet while you are out. Even in a dark room, night vision shows you how they are doing.
- Cheer on a friend during a marathon. Runners can answer with one tap using template messages.
FREE FEATURES
Joining a group, the compass radar (one saved place), the stray alert, the watch face (one background image), messages, weather details, body graphs and more. Try the full version first with a 14-day trial. See the website and manual for details. https://easymoat.com/pulselink/
GETTING STARTED
Your watch's own Device ID is your identity. You use the same ID to open the web tools that send the live camera and background images.
FULL VERSION
$9.99 per year, from https://easymoat.com/pulselink/ Cancel any time and keep using it until your term ends.
COMPATIBLE DEVICES
36 Garmin AMOLED watches with a 360x360 px screen or larger (Forerunner 165/265/570/965/970, fenix 8 and fenix 8 Pro, epix (Gen 2) and epix Pro, Venu 2 / 3 / 4 / X1, Vivoactive 5 / 6, MARQ (Gen 2), D2, Approach S50 / S70).
GOOD TO KNOW
- Your watch needs an internet connection through the Garmin Connect phone app.
- Live sharing of heart rate, steps, distance and location requires the sharing settings to be ON.
- The altitude and pressure graphs use a barometric sensor (Vivoactive 5 / 6 do not have one).
- The live camera needs an iPhone or Android phone you can leave plugged in.
Apart, but together.
What's new
V2.6.0
Alerts
- Arrive and leave alerts (new). You are told the moment a Crew member reaches or leaves a saved place.
- The stray alert has been rebuilt. Eleven fixed distances: 100m, 200m, 500m, 1km, 2km, 3km, 4km, 5km, 10km, 20km and 50km, with an alert every time someone crosses one, moving away or coming back.
- Camera motion now arrives as a banner too, and the red stamp on the image is gone.
Watch face and compass
- The home rows are chosen as slots, Row 1/2/3. The default is Self, Weather and Physical, all three on, with every Share switch on as well. Rows that are out of range or duplicated are repaired at startup.
- Center on for the radar. Put a saved place or a Crew member at the center instead of yourself. You appear as a white ring marked You, and tapping it cycles its label (distance, You, mark only).
- Long-press a marker to center on it. Long-press an empty spot to strip every marker down to a plain mark, including labels you set one by one. One press clears a crowded radar.
- Places can be entered as coordinates (Enter coords), so you can save a spot you are not standing in.
v2.4.7
Battery Saver (new)
- The watch face can now dim itself after a set time with no input, leaving just the clock and the date on a black screen. Choose Off, 5, 10 or 20 seconds.
- Saver Wake decides how you bring it back: Motion uses your watch's own wrist gesture, Tap waits for a tap or a button. Either way, taps, buttons and alerts always wake it.
Camera
- A camera that stopped after being left unwatched now starts again by itself as soon as someone looks at it, from the watch or from the Viewer. A camera you paused by hand stays paused.
Refinements and fixes
- The Crew screen now fills in the moment you enter it. Your row and your crew's rows no longer stay blank until the next update.
- Image source is now a simple tap cycle between your slots and your camera. For members, the screen the leader shares is what you see by default, and you can switch to your own slot or camera from there.
- The date area at the bottom of the screen has a larger tap target, so cycling between the home, Crew and compass screens is easier to hit.
V2.4.6.1
A tap-first control scheme:
- Tap the date at the bottom of the screen to cycle through the three main screens: home, Crew screen and compass.
- Tap the weather bar for the weather details, tap the physical bar for your body metrics, and tap anywhere else for the You menu.
- Long-press a bar to change its color.
- Swipe up or down on the watch face to switch its image.
Body metrics (new):
- Tap the physical bar to loop through five screens: heart rate, Body Battery, stress, steps and floors.
- Heart rate, Body Battery and stress are shown as graphs. Steps and floors show today's value and goal, plus bars for the last few days.
Camera:
- Swipe down on the watch face camera image to look back through the last 5 shots. While viewing an older shot the capture time turns blue and shows how many steps back you are. Swipe up to return to the latest.
- You can now switch between the front and back camera remotely from the web — on both the camera page and the Viewer.
Compass radar:
- The maximum range has been extended from 200 km to 1000 km.
- Marker labels can show the distance, the name, or nothing (marks only). Tap the screen to switch all markers at once, set them one by one in Radar menu, Marker labels — or simply tap a marker to change just that one.
- The START button now opens the Radar menu.
Refinements:
- Link up now shows the signed-in account at the bottom, so an empty setting is obvious at a glance.
- The Rim marks hands are thicker for better legibility.
- Halo (outline) coverage has been refined to only the elements where it helps.