Garmin

A Garmin watch can carry your firing solution to your wrist, the same way an Apple Watch or a Wear OS watch does: throw a widget from the results grid and it appears on the watch.

Garmin works a little differently from the other two, and the differences are worth knowing before you set it up.

What you need

1. The Garmin Connect app on your phone, signed in and with your watch paired to it. Everything Dopeology sends to the watch travels through Garmin Connect, so it has to be installed and running in the background. This is a Garmin requirement, not something the app can work around.
2. Dopeology on the watch, installed from the Connect IQ Store. It is a separate listing from the phone app, so installing one does not install the other.
3. Select your device in Dopeology, on the Connect Devices screen, under Watches, in the Garmin section. On iOS this hands you over to Garmin Connect to pick the watch and then returns you to the app.

The Garmin section lists three things, and the throw button on a widget only appears once a device is selected and connected:

Row	Meaning
Device selected	You have chosen a watch in the step above.
App installed	Dopeology is on that watch, from the Connect IQ Store.
Connected	The watch is in range and Garmin Connect can reach it.

What you can send

Phase one covers the two read-only screens:

• Target Card: one card at a time, with the range, the dial, and the wind bracket. Swipe or use the up/down buttons to move between targets; the phone follows your selection, so the card you are reading on the wrist is the target highlighted on the phone.
• DOPE Card: the range table as a scrollable list, with the row nearest your current range highlighted, and transonic and subsonic rows tinted as they are on the phone. Swipe or use the up/down buttons to move through the table; the highlight follows your current range as the phone recalculates.

The Shot Timer and PRS Stage Trainer are not on Garmin yet. They run their clock and haptics on the watch itself, which is a larger piece of work on this platform; they remain available on Apple Watch and Wear OS.

Reading in the field

The watch card is a reduced view of the phone card, not a copy of it. On a round watch face read in sunlight, through a glove, fewer numbers at a larger size beats a faithful mirror, so the watch shows the range, the dial and the wind, and stops there.

A long DOPE table is shortened before it is sent, because Connect IQ limits how much data a phone may push in one go. The rows kept are the ones around your current range, which are the ones you are reading.

A wide DOPE table is narrowed as well, on the watch itself. The table keeps as many columns as the screen can show at a readable size, starting from the left, so range and dial survive on the smallest watches. When columns have been left off, the last column heading ends with a >; the full table is on the phone.

The last card sent is stored on the watch, so it is still there when your phone is in a pack or out of range. When the watch app starts it asks the phone for the current card, so opening it after a change on the phone brings it up to date.

If nothing arrives

• Check Garmin Connect is installed, signed in, and has not been force-closed. It is in the path for every message.
• Check the Garmin section in the user menu. Whichever row reads No is the step to fix.
• Open the Dopeology app on the watch. It asks the phone for the current card on start, which resolves most cases where the watch has been out of range.