Has anyone else had issues with this an incident detection giving false positives? Pretty much every ride I’ve done this year has had an incident detection been triggered when I’ve stopped at lights a T junction or just anytime I’ve slowed down quickly.
I don’t remember it being an issue last year so I assume an updated version of the firmware (in fact the only time it triggered was when I broke my ribs in a crash on a holiday trip and I was scrambling to stop it from texting my wife and causing her to worry).
I’ve turned it off completely on my 1030 and 830. Mountain biking it would go off constantly and on my road bike it would go off when I stopped at an intersection.
Seems Garmin needs to go back rework the algorithm in terms of how crashes are detected.
Never while riding and I travel on really beat up and bumpy roads. I’ve had the 530 since August and have been mostly training outside. Connected sensors:
power meter (Stages gen3)
heart rate monitor (Garmin dual-band)
speed
Varia gen1 radar
Bontrager Flare RT rear light
The only false positive was last week when I flipped the bike upside down to fix a flat, and a 25mph wind gust knocked the bike over.
Not on a 30 series device but latest firmware update on my 520 has caused 3 false positives, slowing quickly for junctions, one of which could not be cancelled. Might try going back a firmware if it happens again.
I have a 520+ and have the same issue. At least once per ride when I pull to the side of a single track trail to let someone pass it goes off, especially if I hit the brakes hard. I’ve disabled it in some of my ride profiles but need to disable in the rest.
My 830 has given two actual-positives and one-false positive. The first two were proper crashes, though there was no cell signal for the first but fortunately friends were near as I broke several ribs (that I was in another country meant my wife, the emergency contact, was in no real position to help). The second was on a trail and I crawled back to the bike to see it counting down and stopped it. I was only a couple miles from home and it was perhaps 6a and I didn’t want my Garmin to wake the wife. The false-positive was a hard stop for a red-light on the road bike. So far so good.
Funny story, I went on a ride with my brother a while ago, we both have a 530. His alarm went off when riding over a cobbled section. 10 minutes later, I crashed into a car (was close to a full stop at the point of impact, but still). My incident alarm didn’t go off. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
My 1030 went off 4 times yesterday. I must remember to turn it off again.
I wasnt even quickly stopping. A couple of times gently slowing triggered an incident.
I don’t have a speed sensor fitted, so I might try that.
I’ve only had 1 crash and it didn’t go off!!
