Name: Big Screen
Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Author: BikeTelemetry

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! 

BETA - If you have the beta installed (version 0.8 or earlier), please uninstall and then reinstall the latest versIon. Settings have changed significantly and this will clear out the beta settings. Thanks!

SLOTS - The slot mechanism was removed in version 1.7 to save memory for new features. The new behavior is equivalent to using Slot A, so that your existing Slot A datafields (the default slot) will be automatically preserved. Instead of slots, use BigScreen clones 1-9 to hold alternate settings.

OLDER DEVICES - Older Edge devices (specifically 530, 830, 1030 and 1030+) consume significantly more memory for ConnectIQ applications due to code size. More recent Edge devices use a more advanced processor with better code density which saves memory allowing more features to be supported. As BigScreen evolves it is becoming more difficult to support these older devices, and the risk increases that these devices will hit out of memory at run-time leading to ConnectIQ application failure. Starting in version 2.0, the plan is to remove the graphical datafields for these older Edge devices, and not add any new graphical datafields on these devices going forward. This will free up device memory and improve stability. This will make it much easier to maintain BIgScreen while still adding features. 

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.
- Supports up to 10 Edge data screens using clones of the BigScreen datafield.
- The layout of each BigScreen can be chosen from a list of standard layouts or customized.
- Up to 24 datafields per BigScreen using up to 8 rows and up to 4 datafields per row.
- Each datafield can be selected from 120+ different metrics.
- Each datafield is automatically sized to make best use of the available space, e.g. large fonts.
- Configurable zones and background colors for Power, HR and Custom datafields.
- Graphical datafields - time in zone, power/HR/custom zone bars, power curve and power graph.
- Acronym or full label per datafield with optional icons.
- Settings persist across BigScreen updates.

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.