Big Screen

DESCRIPTION BigScreen is a ConnectIQ datafield for Edge devices that provides many screens and many datafields in a highly configurable way. The goal is to make better use of the screen resolution, colors and processing power of modern Edge cycling computers, while retaining the familiar grid layout. Essentially, it replaces the Garmin datafield user interface. This is one datafield to rule them all! USER GUIDE The Big Screen user guide can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-7Zajlyc4DDDradUaZ-tOWKJLMn-qLtE7m8tJOh8Xa4 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 this work, please feel free to buy me a coffee. It would be much appreciated! https://buymeacoffee.com/biketelemetry FEATURES The main features are: - Screens and datafields are configured from your phone through ConnectIQ settings. - Screen settings can be saved into up to 10 slots. - Supports up to 10 Edge data screens using clones of the BigScreen datafield. - The layout of each screen can be chosen from a list of standard layouts or customized. - Up to 18 datafields per screen using 6 rows x 3 datafields. - Each datafield can be selected from 70+ metrics. - Datafields use the largest font to fill the available space. - Configurable zones and background colors for Power, HR and Custom datafields. - Short or long labels per datafield with optional icons. - Settings persist across BigScreen updates (but not from beta to product unfortunately) Install the BigScreen datafield using the ConnectIQ app, and add BigScreen to an activity profile. You can find BigScreen inside the list of ConnectIQ datafields. Ideally, install BigScreen on a new Edge screen using just 1 datafield. BigScreen's settings can then be used to subdivide the Edge Screen into as many datafields as you want. Alternatively, BigScreen can work inside any Edge screen layout, and you can subdivide within the limitations of the available space. There are an additional 9 clones of the BigScreen datafield available in the ConnectIQ store. These are called “Big Screen 1” through “Big Screen 9”. You can install multiple clones to get independent copies of BigScreen that can have different settings. They can be installed on multiple Edge data screens in an activity profile so that you can select between them using the up/down buttons on your device. RELEASE NOTES The beta program has finished. Thank you for testing and your feedback. It is recommended that the beta version is uninstalled from your Edge device before installing version 1.0. This will clean up some storage that is no longer used. Note that settings are not preserved from the beta to version 1.0. The beta had a slot-based multi-screen feature. This has been removed, and multi-screen is now supported using BigScreen clones. BigScreen dynamically optimizes the datafield fonts to fit inside the available space. However, screen size and resolution varies by device so not all combinations are usable. Memory availability varies by device and memory usage depends on the configuration, particularly the number of datafields and number of different fonts. If device memory is exceeded the ConnectIQ app will typically fail with a triangle icon, though this does not impact other screens and activity recording. CONTACT US If you have issues, 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 including LapDelta and LapsToGo.

VERSION HISTORY IMPORTANT - If you still have the beta installed (version number of 0.8 or earlier), please uninstall the beta and then install the latest verison of BigScreen. The settings have changed significantly and the beta settings will not work with the latest version. Thanks! Note that the slot mechanism was removed in version 1.7 to save memory for new features. The new behavior is equivalent to always using Slot A, so that your existing Slot A datafields (the default slot) will be automatically preserved. You can use BigScreen clones 1-9 to hold alternate settings. Many thanks and apologies for any inconvenience. 1.7 - removed slot feature to save code/memory space, added course notes premium feature, fix distance rounding, add bullet points to datafield dropdown menu to improve settings UI, horizontal short labels if they do not fit vertically, rewrite of label layout and display code, fix BigScreen9 app name typo, fix longstanding bug where settings updates could be lost, fix BBS power bug, remove screen tapping on touchscreen devices, better label sizing across devices 1.6 - fix stack overflow problem in version 1.5, add configurable datafield for "food units" (aka pizza slices), add paused time datafield, add coasting time datafield, turn off bar ticks when pixel spacing is too small 1.5 - 0W mapped to zone 1.0, added work-in-zone and beats-in-zone graphical datafields (premium), added power, HR and custom bars (premium), add option for no grid lines, rework graphical marker to an anti-aliased triangle, added low/high settings for power, HR and custom bars (premium), reduced margins/spacing to optimize label and datafield sizes, added L and R variations of double layout (D) 1.4 - add navigation fields for destination including ETA, renumbered GPS Signal datafield, add LapDelta premium datafields, added front and rear gear index datafields, improve datafield layout (e.g. larger fonts for time fields), improve algorithm and responsiveness for grade datafield, fix out-of-range zone crash 1.3 - fix separator wraparound in datafield drop-down settings menus, add premium features starting with time-in-zone graphical datafields, performance/memory optimization, separate setting for zone color enable/disable, support 7 HR and custom zones, improve grade algorithm, more consistent label text sizing 1.2 - revise settings strings, improve handling of data drops, simplify navigation datafields, add workout datafields, add tap option for slot scrolling, performance optimization, fix lap datafield bugs, fix crash due to API versions, fix temperature handling, code refactoring 1.1 - 24 hour time, HR/power zone datafields, add LapsToGo, custom zone fix, margin fix 1.0 - first product release of Big Screen Many thanks to the folks who sent bug reports to me. I can't test on all Edge physical devices, so this is very helpful.