Garmin entering the dive industry?

[The Chairman]

...and the info in my last post came directly from one of the developers.

I guess the first one to lock their Garmin out will be able to tell us what's up. That would be a first for me in 48 years of diving. I'm not a good candidate for that experiment.

BTW, I get things wrong all the time about SB. Patrick didn't think you could do this, so he researched it. That's why I provided his quote. If it's wrong, I can show where I got the info.

 

[Rhyno]

I guess the first one to lock their Garmin out will be able to tell us what's up. That would be a first for me in 48 years of diving. I'm not a good candidate for that experiment.

BTW, I get things wrong all the time about SB. Patrick didn't think you could do this, so he researched it. That's why I provided his quote. If it's wrong, I can show where I got the info.

I believe Patrick is correct. What I had meant is that with my data we've found two independent internal Garmin resources that confirmed the same. I'll test this evening and get back with you.

 

[stuartv]

So, let's say I do a dive with the Garmin set to GF30/50. It's my backup. I ignore it through the dive, while I'm paying attention to my Perdix, which is set to GF50/80.

When I get out, the Garmin says I skipped some deco, but the Perdix says I did all required deco.

I want to dive again, so I clear the lockout and then set the Garmin to GF50/80.

When I splash for the second dive, the Garmin will behave exactly as if I had had it set to GF50/80 from the beginning (before the first dive)?

I expect the answer is yes, but it sure would be nice to get confirmation from a Garmin developer or someone who talks to a developer....

 

[The Chairman]

So, let's say I do a dive

Could you be a bit more specific???

 

[stuartv]

Could you be a bit more specific???

30 minute SI between dive 1 and 2... ? Diving air to 100'?

 

[dmaziuk]

Whatever happened to Philippe Khan?

You made me look at The Wiki Of The Thousand Lies. If anyone brings a usable "biometrics" and/or dead-reckoning navigation to a dive computer, my bet would be on him.

 

[tridacna]

You made me look at The Wiki Of The Thousand Lies. If anyone brings a usable "biometrics" and/or dead-reckoning navigation to a dive computer, my bet would be on him.

You're right. I remember when he came up with the concept of the camera phone. I wonder if he got royalties for that? He was my hero for years...

 

[Rhyno]

The lockout is an on/off setting done once, must be before a dive ie you can’t decide in the water you don’t want it.
Once off it stays off until reenabled.

I guess the first one to lock their Garmin out will be able to tell us what's up.

I did some testing in my chamber last night. It looks like the answer is a little from column A, a little from column B.

1.) Signs are pointing to the 'lockout enabled' flag being an on/off setting that is modified once, not once per lockout. I'll update after 24 hours has elapsed, however I have no reason to believe it will reenable.
2.) It does not need to be disabled prior to the dive. I did a ~15 min dive to 100', and blew past my first deco stop, yet followed a stepped decompression roughly 10' above the displayed Deco ceiling. After the dive ended I was alerted and the following screen was immediately displayed. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XZdYWgPLmmzc-GMEhe6pZf9TrCmcQbYh. Afterward I disabled deco lockout and performed a subsequent dive.

I haven't forgotten about the question of multiple dives with disparate GF's. I did some preliminary tests, however I want to wait another 24 hours and retest to get a more complete answer.

 

[RainPilot]

Thanks!

I meant that you couldn't disable the lockout during the dive, ie you didn't notice the issue and splashed in again without looking at the computer.

 

[Rhyno]

Ahh! That makes a lot more sense. I completely misread what you were saying. Thanks for the clarification.