Garmin Watch + inReach Remote Control
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- A quick set up between your Garmin watch and Garmin inReach can allow you to remote control your inReach and hit SOS if you get separated from your pack.
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The Garmin inReach series offers outdoor enthusiasts a crucial safety tool, ensuring connectivity and emergency assistance even in remote locations. By pairing your Garmin inReach device, such as the inReach Mini 2, with a compatible Garmin watch, you can enhance your safety features significantly. This integration allows users to control the inReach device remotely from their Garmin watch-whether it’s a Fenix or an Epix model. Users can send preset messages, check for incoming texts, toggle tracking on or off, and even initiate an SOS, all directly from their wrist.
Setting up this functionality is straightforward and only takes a couple of minutes. The process involves enabling the 'inReach remote' setting on your inReach device and pairing it through the 'sensors and accessories' menu on your Garmin watch. Once paired, the devices communicate using ANT+, providing a reliable connection within a 50-foot range.
The compatibility between Garmin devices, including the Garmin Fenix and Garmin Epix, enhances user experience by adding layers of usability and safety. These watches not only display essential hiking metrics but also allow access to inReach features through a special data screen or a widget glance when not in an activity. This seamless integration ensures that adventurers can focus on the trail while staying connected and safe. Garmin recommends enabling live tracking or opting for an unlimited tracking plan to send automatic location updates, which can be vital in emergencies where the user cannot manually send an SOS.
For those invested in outdoor adventures, leveraging the combined power of Garmin inReach with a Garmin Fenix or Garmin Epix watch is a game-changer, providing peace of mind with advanced safety features accessible right from your wrist. 
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Any other inReach or Garmin watch tips that you guys have and want to share with the community?
Is this for the inReach 2 as well
@@jacksyoungest5194 Yup works with Mini 2 - bit.ly/3QmDO3i
Thanks for an excellent video! In addition to sending preset messages, custom messages can be sent from a watch. This is done by selecting “New Message” from the messages menu on the widget. Thanks again for your great work.
@@jacksyoungest5194 yup
Love this. Upgraded to the GPSMAP 67i and never knew about this connection. A fantastic addition for when I am bikepacking and if I crash and end up away from the bike (what the GPSMAP is attached to). Thanks so much!
My compliments on your acting skills! 🙂 This is why I clip my Garmin securely to my person and not my equipment.
I have a lot of respect for you putting these videos on. You're informative and succinct , don't ramble on like some, and you provide an important public service re safety with these devices that Garmin doesn't do. Thank you from down under
Big big thank you, I appreciate that
Yeah seriously thanks a lot. Garmin is so lacking in education.. it’s clunky but you help navigate it all
Huge!!! Thank you so much for this!!!
Great information 🙏🏻
Great video, Thanks! Always wondered how to connect the Mini2 to the Epix.
Good job
Hello everyone! 👋🤠
Awesome tip and works with original inReach Mini also!
Slightly different menu flow and need to turn on ANT+ if it’s not already on.
Using original inReach Mini and 47mm Epix Gen 2 (non-Pro).
Oh thank you for your reply, this is almost the same combo I want to us but I have the pro model.
Thanks. I never knew about this feature. I have a Inreach Mini II. When I checked it the Inreach Remote feature was already enabled. I then connected it with my Fenix 5. This is a great safety feature, since I attache my Inreach to my backpack. I sometimes will throw the backpack up.down a rock or ledge to climb up/down, so if I fall it's nice to know I can send out an SOS or help message if needed.
If you pair your Mini 2 to Messenger app on your iPhone, the Mini 2 can send presets, messages, track points, etc over your iPhone's internet connection. Could be helpful for demos, depending on what you're trying to show.
Thanks!
WHOAAAA big big big big thank you! I couldn't do it without you, and appreciate it 100000000%
Haha well right now I don’t need anything to buy at REI so I figured I’d just put some $$ forward some other way. We hike the same trails so I appreciate what you do.
@@nedstory1250 I can't tell you how much I appreciate it, it helps out a ton. Hope to see you out there one day!
@@Hikingguy speaking of Garmin, is there any reason I should trade in my in reach mini for the new version? I’m not feeling it but I’m not tech oriented.
@@chili1593 nah the new one is better but the core inReach stuff is the same, no reason to upgrade if what you have is working for you
Great video as usual! I always watch and appreciate your videos - I’ve got a Fenix 6 pro solar and use this feature. Worth upgrading to the Epix?
Yes, that’s a great thought, and I had tried it out with an edge unit a couple of years ago, but it was all just cycling focused. It does work for trails and I think Garmin could probably make a handheld in the same form factor.. But there’s no activity type for hiking, so you have to do mountain biking, which is OK. I like where your heads at though.
Awesome. I'll set mine up later today, wonder if it works on the older large InReach models? Thanks for the video.
Here's the list:
Alpha® 200i
GPSMAP® 66i
GPSMAP® 67i
GPSMAP® 86i
GPSMAP® 86sci
inReach® Messenger
inReach Mini
inReach Mini 2
Montana® 700i
Montana® 750i
Very much appreciate and value your videos and info. Heading out next week for 350 miles on the PCT and battery drain is always a concern on longer more remote hikes. Any speculation or knowledge of the increase in battery useage when synced with a watch? Thanks again for everything!
It's a great question - since the battery lasts so long and I'm never draining it down too low, I haven't really noticed a difference. But I found this on the Coros website:
The latest Bluetooth chipsets, like the ones used in the COROS Heart Rate Monitor and PACE 3, are designed with energy efficiency in mind. In contrast, ANT+ connections consume more power due to the following reasons:
ANT+ broadcasts data at an unnecessary 4-8 Hz (4-8 times every second), while Bluetooth broadcast is maintained at 1 Hz.
Bluetooth only consumes power when the connection is enabled, ANT+ requires data transmission to always be turned on and can't be shut off.
Thanks for that follow-up.
Great video! I'm going to try this on my next trip. Also, it's time to ditch the factory screen protector on you watch grandpa 🤣
The cover is an anti-glare protector so that I don’t get a reflection when I shoot video. I didn’t do a good job about cutting a perfect circle though.
@Hikingguy Oh, I see. Was just giving you crap.
Excellent. Does it work with the original inreach mini?
Works with original Mini also! I just set it up…slightly different menu flow and need to turn on ANT+ if it’s not already on.
Using original inReach Mini and 47mm Epix Gen 2 (non-Pro).
Thank you very much. I was wondering if I could save some battery on my watch. Is the inreach able to communicate the position with the watch, so I can turn off gps for one of the devices? Would this make sense?
Yea makes sense but not possible unfortunately. Hoping in the next inReach the connection is Bluetooth Low Energy.
@@Hikingguy That's unfortunate. But thanks for your reply 😊
Is it possible to pair Inreach2, Epix pro and iPhone simultaneously, or can the watch only pair with one device at a time?
They can all be connected at the same time
A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own and will use modern smart phones?
Yes, indeed! Some of us are still hip! :)
I don't see a way to enable ant+ on the InReach Mini
support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=mOS1zzSopx0nP3G24d81v7
@@Hikingguy I figured it out. I was already connected from my Fenix 7X Pro to my iReach Mini 2. I didn’t know I could use my watch, thanks for the info.
A curious question: Are there people over eighty years of age who are very elderly people who own and will use modern smart phones???!
My mom does
My Garmin instinct wont reliably stay connected to my phone. So I’m thinking I would never trust anything that says Garmin on it with my life.
Or don't trust your phone
@@Hikingguy Guess you have a point there. Lol
@@dustyroads834 Ha yea, well in my experience, I've had trouble with some of the Garmin cycling computers syncing with my phone, but my watches sync fine with the same phone. It really could be either, so hard to say. When I have issues I try turning Bluetooth off/on for the phone and trying again. Sometimes I have to close out the Connect app too. Again, never with my watches, but sometimes with my Edge computer.