[Closed] Planning ride on iPhone and downloading to garmin - how do you do it?

It can be done, but not, I think, from Strava.

Download the EasyRoute app and make your course. It seems to route quite well for biking.

When you've made the course, tap the "share" button and select "Open GPX in other app" then select Garmin Connect.

Save the course in Connect and then sync your 810; and if all has gone well, the course should appear.

See DCRainmaker's guide for the full details.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/01/quickly-creating-devices.html

iirc there's a "Download to Device" button in Connect that you'll need to hit. The above solution sounds good though

^^^^ That is right, I'd forgotten that step. Download to device in the top right corner of Connect will flag the course to transfer, then sync the 810.

Excellent, thanks so much. I’ll give it a whirl now.

Hmm. I'll give that a go, too. The only way I've found to do it until now (at least with a vaguely useful planner) is to use Komoot (which has a good iOS app and an IQ app), but downloading via their IQ app means paying—which is fine, but I already pay a RideWithGPS subscription and I don't want to spend much for functionality I'll only use very occasionally.

To be honest, for the sort of routes I'd ever want to plot in the field, the Explore is actually capable enough on its own (since it's way quicker and more responsive than the 810 et al).

OK, so EasyRoute seems to broadly work. (Why don't more apps provide that export feature?) But try as I might I can't get a sensible route out of it. Even if I tell it to route for driving, it wants to take me off-road at every opportunity. Am I doing something wrong?

Change the Route Type to biking (by the edit icon, the 4th one along the bottom of the screen)

Yeah, tried changing the "route for…" option (I'm on iOS BTW) but it just loves off-roading no matter what I select. I think it wants me to buy a Land Rover.

Worked well for me. That follow roads icon, bottom, second from left needs to be on 3 lines rather than one line. Follow roads rather than ignore roads. I now have a lovely route on my 810, just need to find the motivation to climb 1600of ascent rather than sit on a sun bed and drift in the water!

After a little more fiddling it seems that if I tap to extend the route then it can be persuaded to stay on roads. However if I drag the route, it seems it always chooses the most off-roady route it can.

Which is a shame, because "fix the end points then drag things into place" is what I've always found to be far and away the easiest way to plan a good route.

Ooh… don't cancel the "Fetching elevation" process. It really goes haywire after that 😀

There is a connect IQ app called RouteCourse. The blurb: “download routes to your Garmin Edge, Fenix 5 or Forerunner 645/935 watch directly from Strava, Ride with GPS, Google Maps, MapMyRide or Garmin Connect, or create a route in seconds in our mobile-phone-friendly Planner.”

I’ve only used it to copy routes from Strava but it works really well. Make sure both your Garmin & iPhone are updated though.

I use Routecourse for getting RWGPS routes onto the Garmin. It works, though it’s a bit flaky (seemed more reliable on the Edge 1000).

But the route “planner” in the app is essentially useless, so it doesn’t fit what the OP’s asking for.

Yes, you can plot a route on Strava (website not app) on the phone though (which works ok), and use RouteCourse to load it onto your Garmin. Presumably can do the same with RWGPS site.

Yeah, in theory you can, but much as I'm a fan of RWGPS on a desktop it's completely and utterly unusable on a phone. Hadn't occurred to me to try the Strava website, I might give it a go 🙂