{"id":85,"date":"2022-06-04T08:39:17","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2022-06-04T08:39:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-04T07:39:17","slug":"garmin-express-why-so-bad-garmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/?p=85","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Express &#8211; why so bad Garmin?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Garmin Express is the software required to upload workouts from my Garmin 500 GPS tracker. The tracker is excellent and I have some other Garmin hardware and that is also well designed and functions reliably and as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, why Garmin, do you not do something about your awful software? When I first used it, probably about 8 years ago, it was ok, but a series of &#8216;upgrades&#8217; as made put it in a downward spiral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Just sitting there, waiting for connection it uses a <em>huge<\/em> amount of CPU. As it is on my laptop, this makes it a battery-eater if I forget to close it.<\/li><li>The login prompt loops. You have to learn that it has logged you in after the first attempt, so close the prompt and continue.<\/li><li>It is stuck in an update loop. Perhaps that is the hardware, but the software says it was successful every time!<\/li><li>The above update <em>must<\/em> be attempted every time you connect the device.<\/li><li>It constantly re-ticks its own option &#8220;Always keep Garmin Express running in the background&#8221;. So I keep finding it started when it shouldn&#8217;t be, eating my laptop battery.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I would have thought that a large and wealthy company like Garmin could afford a few quid to get its key software in order? Or has shareholder profits become the only thing that matters in business?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garmin Express is the software required to upload workouts from my Garmin 500 GPS tracker. The tracker is excellent and I have some other Garmin hardware and that is also well designed and functions reliably and as expected. So, why Garmin, do you not do something about your awful software? When I first used it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-shareholder-profits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.lidstone.me\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}