can (and how) you add a field to the dashboard display on 62S?

[+cadtenchy]

On my 62S I am using the dashboard selection to look for caches. This has compass, distance to cache, and number of caches found on it.

 

Googling it seems I can customise it, but I cannot find out how. I only seem to find a sequence of presses to select it.

 

I would like to lose the caches found and replace that with the estimated accuracy.

Can it be done, and if so, how please?

[MtnHermit]

You can put any allowed field in any location. Simply move to a field, press enter, select from the list of fields, press enter again, that field now replaces what you had. Repeat until you've customized the entire screen. Save as a profile and do it over for another profile.

[+cadtenchy]

You can put any allowed field in any location. Simply move to a field, press enter, select from the list of fields, press enter again, that field now replaces what you had. Repeat until you've customized the entire screen. Save as a profile and do it over for another profile.

 

how do you move to a field? In what screen?

With the map up with dashboard, none of the keypresses I can find take me to the fields. The cursors nav me around the map and hide the dashboard?

[+janandsteve]

I would like to lose the caches found and replace that with the estimated accuracy.

Can it be done, and if so, how please?

I dont think this can be done. You cannot alter any of the fields 'within' the actual 'dashboard'.

Replacing the 'dashboard' with datafields could help and then you can have displayed whatever you want.

 

Here is my setup which you may find useful to tweak as you see fit....

 

I have the full UK Garmin GB Discoverer maps loaded at 1:50K scale ( incl routable roads and POI data ) and the full uk coast with the uk bits from Bluechart Altantic ( incl tide data ).

 

Applicable to Geocaching I use 3 different profiles - Car / Geocaching / Recreational.

 

Recreational is a north-up facing map, so that I can see all cache locations easily without them spinning round all time like if I used track-up maps. This helps me plan if I am out - Basecamp and routes are the way to go for home planning.

 

Car is used with a 'recalculate on road' function, so the GPS gets me to the nearest road location for me to begin my search. This is only useable with routable maps like I mention above. I find this function useful and quicker than programming my car sat nav with coords - yes i could bring that in and load caches into that, but that just seems a waste when all are in the 62s unit.

 

Geocaching is the main profile used once at the starting point.

 

I flick between the 3 profiles as required, but please note my thread here: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=263825&st=0&p=4532770&fromsearch=1entry4532770

 

There is a profile software issue that I notified Garmin about and they agreed it was an issue - still waiting for them to confirm when it will be incorporated into a future software release.

 

Within the geocaching profile I have the following page sequence setup....map/compass/trip computer/elevation plot

 

Map screen, showing OS map, with a geocaching dashboard. When not navigating, this shows me the nearest cache location with its small compass at the top. It also shows me the cache distance and how many caches I have found.

 

compass page - compass showing bearing large, with 4 data fields at the top - time to next, dist to next, off course, gps accuracy. I think this may be where you see 'two direction arrows on the geocaching compass' - you have the geocaching dashboard setup on your compass screen, where I have 4 small data fields. The choices are almost endless, so it is all down to what works for you.

 

trip computer - 10 small data fields setup here. speed, trip odometer, moving time, elevation, stopped time, time of day, moving avg, eta at dest, overall avg, sunset. The main use of this screen is to see if i will get back before sunset. Note that I use eta at dest and not eta at next as I make use of routes and want to note what time i will get back. ( I use the GPS for other purposes than geocaching )

 

elevation plot - I have current elevation on the trip computer page, so my main use of the elevation plot page is to 'monitor' weather. I have ranges of 0.5mb and 45min - that way I can see what the pressure is doing at short time scales therefore can decide if the weather will get worse etc. I also have 2 small datafields at the top - ambient pressure and barometer.

 

Its all about personal preference and the choices are almost endless. The above is what works for me, something else may work better for you, but I hope the above helps. Remember to save your profiles on your PC in case of probs - they are located at F:garmin/profiles. Custom maps are also worth backing up from f:garmin/custommaps. Have a look at the free Garmin Basecamp software - thats excellent to manage waypoints routes tracks etc.

Edited February 26, 2011 by janandsteve

[+Maingray]

I would like to lose the caches found and replace that with the estimated accuracy.

Can it be done, and if so, how please?

I dont think this can be done. You cannot alter any of the fields 'within' the actual 'dashboard'.

 

What 'e said. I would like "caches found" to be data you can add to any data field though.

 

I use a very similar profile set up to Janandsteve. The recent Garmins are very customizable.

[+janandsteve]

What 'e said. I would like "caches found" to be data you can add to any data field though.

Am I missing the obvious.... where did he say that?

My understanding was he was asking to remove the field in the geocaching dashboard that tells you how many you have found - you cannot alter this data field, only set it to the No you have found - you cannot change that bit of the screen to read gps accuracy, which was my understanding of the question. Correct me if I am wrong.

 

Having 'caches found' as a data field that you can place on any screen would be a good idea though.

 

The recent Garmins are very customizable.

AGREED.

Edited February 25, 2011 by janandsteve

[+pierrega]

Tank you janandsteve for the config of your geocaching profile. It is very helpfull for me.

Just 1 thing, the link in your message don't work, can you update this link ?

 

Your experience is much better than the Garmin manual....

[+cadtenchy]

I would like to lose the caches found and replace that with the estimated accuracy.

Can it be done, and if so, how please?

I dont think this can be done. You cannot alter any of the fields 'within' the actual 'dashboard'.

Replacing the 'dashboard' with datafields could help and then you can have displayed whatever you want.

 

Here is my setup which you may find useful to tweak as you see fit....

 

I have the full UK Garmin GB Discoverer maps loaded at 1:50K scale ( incl routable roads and POI data ) and the full uk coast with the uk bits from Bluechart Altantic ( incl tide data ).

 

Applicable to Geocaching I use 3 different profiles - Car / Geocaching / Recreational.

 

Recreational is a north-up facing map, so that I can see all cache locations easily without them spinning round all time like if I used track-up maps. This helps me plan if I am out - Basecamp and routes are the way to go for home planning.

 

Car is used with a 'recalculate on road' function, so the GPS gets me to the nearest road location for me to begin my search. This is only useable with routable maps like I mention above. I find this function useful and quicker than programming my car sat nav with coords - yes i could bring that in and load caches into that, but that just seems a waste when all are in the 62s unit.

 

Geocaching is the main profile used once at the starting point.

 

I flick between the 3 profiles as required, but please note my thread here: http://forums.Ground...1

 

There is a profile software issue that I notified Garmin about and they agreed it was an issue - still waiting for them to confirm when it will be incorporated into a future software release.

 

Within the geocaching profile I have the following page sequence setup....map/compass/trip computer/elevation plot

 

Map screen, showing OS map, with a geocaching dashboard. When not navigating, this shows me the nearest cache location with its small compass at the top. It also shows me the cache distance and how many caches I have found.

 

compass page - compass showing bearing large, with 4 data fields at the top - time to next, dist to next, off course, gps accuracy. I think this may be where you see 'two direction arrows on the geocaching compass' - you have the geocaching dashboard setup on your compass screen, where I have 4 small data fields. The choices are almost endless, so it is all down to what works for you.

 

trip computer - 10 small data fields setup here. speed, trip odometer, moving time, elevation, stopped time, time of day, moving avg, eta at dest, overall avg, sunset. The main use of this screen is to see if i will get back before sunset. Note that I use eta at dest and not eta at next as I make use of routes and want to note what time i will get back. ( I use the GPS for other purposes than geocaching )

 

elevation plot - I have current elevation on the trip computer page, so my main use of the elevation plot page is to 'monitor' weather. I have ranges of 0.5mb and 45min - that way I can see what the pressure is doing at short time scales therefore can decide if the weather will get worse etc. I also have 2 small datafields at the top - ambient pressure and barometer.

 

Its all about personal preference and the choices are almost endless. The above is what works for me, something else may work better for you, but I hope the above helps. Remember to save your profiles on your PC in case of probs - they are located at F:garmin/profiles. Custom maps are also worth backing up from f:garmin/custommaps. Have a look at the free Garmin Basecamp software - thats excellent to manage waypoints routes tracks etc.

 

thanks for a great reply. to be honest I find the manual very lacking indeed, and I consider myself pretty tech minded, usually finding my way round by playing.

anyway...

You did interpret my Q correctly, the dashboard is so nearly what I want changing the one field would be ideal.

I'll play with the compass fields and see how I get on.

 

Just to clarify, when I am in my geocaching profile, and say in the map screen with dashboard, I can customise the number and content of the pages that cycle around when I press page or quit button, and without that affecting other profiles?

[+janandsteve]

Tank you janandsteve for the config of your geocaching profile. It is very helpfull for me.

Just 1 thing, the link in your message don't work, can you update this link ?

 

Your experience is much better than the Garmin manual....

Hi Pierrega

Thank you for the feedback - glad the config was some use to you.

Thanks for pointing out that the link didnt work - it got corrupt when I cut and paste the above from one of my posts on another thread.

I have updated the link in my original post above and it should now display correctly.

Regards

Steve

[+janandsteve]

thanks for a great reply. to be honest I find the manual very lacking indeed, and I consider myself pretty tech minded, usually finding my way round by playing.

anyway...

You did interpret my Q correctly, the dashboard is so nearly what I want changing the one field would be ideal.

I'll play with the compass fields and see how I get on.

 

Just to clarify, when I am in my geocaching profile, and say in the map screen with dashboard, I can customise the number and content of the pages that cycle around when I press page or quit button, and without that affecting other profiles?

Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I agree, the manual is very poor. I too just play around and teach myself.

We just cross posted at the same time :-)

I made a mistake in my post above - see my last post to Pierrega - the link didnt work - it got corrupt when I cut and paste the above from one of my posts on another thread. I have updated the link in my original post above and it should now display correctly. With regards to your point '...and without that affecting other profiles...' check out that link - unfortunately Garmin have a problem ( confirmed by them ) with profiles and therefore changing one field in one profile does in fact change a field in others - which it shouldnt do. Here's the link for you to have a look at: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=263825&st=0&p=4532770&fromsearch=1entry4532770 Hope this helps you a little bit more. Regards. Steve

[+cadtenchy]

thanks for correcting the link. I'll have to watch out for that.

 

My primary use will be caching, but I will use the gps for double checking location in hiking whiteouts/bad weather, and for track data on pc after. so if I set up Ok for caching that's the main thing.

[+Maingray]

What 'e said. I would like "caches found" to be data you can add to any data field though.

Am I missing the obvious.... where did he say that?

 

I meant you I was agreeing with you, I use much the same profiles as you

[+webactive]

I recently bought the gpsmap62sc - thanks to janandsteve for your advice on how to setup. Too many options.

any further tips on all the settings would be great, as there are so many - I too bought the gpsr for geo caching.

cheers

matt