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The speed for straight single-lane roads like I was on is likely pretty darn accurate.

You can move your mouse over the map to find the cars, or, hit the play button at the top.Īnd in fact, I can then click on any car and see the details of that radar moment, including an estimated takeover speed. Here’s what a file looks like once loaded:Īt first you say, it’s just a map? But it’s a map showing every car interaction there is. In an ideal world, the developer would connect their CIQ app up to the site and it’d all happen in the background, but for now, this is good enough. It’s there you can upload the file and check out the data inside. Once that’s done – head over to – which is the site the developer of the Connect IQ app made to plot the data.

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For that, you’ll need to either connect your device to your computer to get the file, or, download the file from Garmin Connect on the web (after opening the activity, select the gear icon at the right, and then choose ‘Export Original’ to get the. On Garmin Connect, you’ll see the exact vehicle count as a chart within your activity:Īnd yes, even in Garmin Connect Mobile on your smartphone too:īut I hear ya, you want the map goodness you see up above. If you just do nothing, the file will sync to Garmin Connect, and within that file is all this extra radar data goodness. What’s cool here is that there’s two levels of data, depending on how much effort you want to put into it. Save the ride and then let’s head inside. But that’s more of a core Varia radar thing than this app’s issue. Inversely, in denser traffic areas with multiple lanes, it likely slightly undercounts cars because a car 2-3 lanes over could potentially hide behind another car. It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty darn close. It also reduces overcounting cars that by, slow down out of range, and come back again. That makes sense, and reduces false-positives for vehicles that may have turned off before it got to you. There is a specific threshold of 30 meters for a vehicle to count, meaning, it as to come within 30 meters of you, or it won’t register the count. This is how you know the field is working. While riding it’ll show you a simple vehicle count. RTL501: 1st gen Varia radar with ANT+ (looks rectangular) Īnd of course, probably also obvious, you need that radar turned on and paired up to your Garmin.

RTL500: 1st gen Varia radar with ANT+ (looks rectangular)

RTL511: 2nd gen Varia radar taillight with ANT+ RTL510: 2nd gen Varia radar taillight with ANT+

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RTL516: New 3rd gen Varia radar taillight with ANT+ & Bluetooth RTL515: New 3rd gen Varia radar taillight with ANT+ & Bluetooth RVR315: Smaller Varia radar pod with ANT+ & Bluetooth, no taillight So as long as you have one of these units, you’re good to go: Obviously, I just want to be clear, you need a Garmin Varia radar here. This is no different than configuring any other metrics/data fields, so go to the same settings field where you would have added cadence fields, heart rate, and so on: I just stuck it down on one of the main pages. Any data page will do, but it has to be loaded somewhere. Once installed on your device, you’ll need to add it to a data page.

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PRG file on their site, so you should be able to manually install it there. Fear not, the developer was kind enough to publish the. Some devices, like the Fenix 6, aren’t listed for some reason. This part is easy, simply head over to the Connect IQ app store and search for ‘ My Bike Radar’ (or, just search for radar, there’s only a few apps, you’ll find it).

It’s a great example of 3rd party developers being able to do cool $h!t on platforms when companies give them the tools to do it. He was hit by a car (at high speed, from behind) a few years back and after the incident he was curious how frequent the traffic really was on his presumed low-traffic road. Oh – and finally, it’s worth noting that this whole app/site is done by just a single guy. Or, you can just keep on scrolling for the step by step instructions.