See your dogs location with a glance at your wrist when paired with a compatible Garmin Alpha, Astro, Atemos, or Pro 550 Plus.
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*** Detailed maps have been disabled by default due to issues in the latest version of CIQ. You can turn it on in the display settings / Map+ menu. ***
- New startup status screen
- Dog tracks (upto first 6 dogs depending on device)
- Activity Recording
- Activity data - distance, time, pace, ...
- Auto Zoom - keeps your dogs visible on the breadcrumb map page
- Customizable data pages
- Setup through Menus - no phone required
- Compatible with most Alpha and Astro devices
- Map with dog tracks / location + detailed map on compatible watches (limit 1 on detailed maps)
- Auto Zoom on breadcrumb map page
- Dog distance alerts - customizable tones
- Dog moving/stopped alerts
- Dog odometer
- Dog location/trails on maps - limitations based on device memory
- Movement indication for each dog
- Battery status for tracker and dog collars
- Distance displayed in yards or meters, depending on user settings
- Upto 20 dogs - depending on your Tracker device
- Start page - press "menu" to configure, or "start" to begin tracking once your Tracker is connected and GPS is found
- Press start button again when you are done with your activity.
- A Tracker device (Alpha or Astro) is required.
- Dog colors are configured on the Tracker device itself - note colors don't always 100% match on the watch
- On map pages, you can use the "back" button to zoom on the map.
- Map pages: circles indicate the dog is moveing, squares indicated they are stopped
- Arrows turns green when the dog is moving, red when stopped.
- Multi dog ring - Red/Green shows movement status of furthest dog
- Multi dog ring - For each dog, direction symbol has bold outline when dog is stopped
- Direction arrows are relative to the direction your watch/device is pointing. For best results, hold your watch level in front of you.
- Detailed maps - for best results, before launching Dog Tracker Plus, configure the watch to show "North Up".
- If GPS or the Tracker lose signal, a small red "GPS" or "Dogs' will show towards the top
All settings for Dog Tracker Plus are now done through menu's on the watch. You no longer need to use your phone.
Press the "menu" button on the watch to bring up the menu.
Main Menu
*setting may not be available while tracking or on some devices
- Detailed maps - unfortunately in CIQ 3.1.3, maps have some major issues that are beyond my control. Dog track disapears, zoom in/out requires a page switch. I have turned maps off by default. You can re-enable them in the display Settings under "Map+".
- Please make sure you have the latest firmware for your Alpha/Astro and "settings / Dogs / Broadcast Dog Data" set to On.
- Troubles connecting to your Alpha: it may be due to conflicts with Garmin's Dog Tracker Widget. To fix it:
- Run the Garmin Widget (down arrow from the watch face until you see it)
- Press the Start button to bring up the menu
- Select “forget this device”
- Exit out of the Widget with the Back button
- Tracker still won't connect - you may need to reboot your Tracker device or your watch (power off/on).
Some devices have more issues with this than others.
- Tracker Connected, but no dogs are found - This is a connection issue between your Alpha/Astro
and the dog collar, not with the Dog Tracker App. Make sure you can see the dogs on the hand held.
- menu doesn't work on detailed map page - currently a limitation of the devices
- detailed slow to update and map flashes - currently a limitation of the devices
- Detailed maps only can show one dog track due to device limitations
- Settings all have to be reset from earlier versions.
- There are no labels on the dog list data page. This page will always show the bigger text.
