The "ActiveLook Datafield" is an advanced plugin that installs directly on your Garmin Edge 1040. It automatically connects to your ActiveLook powered eyewear and pushes your live data into your field of view.
Information is displayed in the eyewear as data screens; each data screen contains from 1 to 6 forms of data, provided by your Garmin device.
Each of your data screens can be customized combining more than 40 metrics.
You can navigate through the data screens by waving your hand in front of the gesture sensor on your eyewear.
Then:
1- Set aside some time.
Installing a datafield on a Garmin device may take a few minutes and, candidly, can be a challenge. Please plan to take between 5 and 15 minutes to complete the process.
2- Ensure your ActiveLook eyewear are up to date.
The first update, setup, and adjustment of your ActiveLook eyewear is done using the ActiveLook mobile application. Connect your Garmin device only after you've completed set-up of your eyewear with the ActiveLook app.
Open the ActiveLook mobile app, (download link here)
Turn your eyewear on, (refer to guide, if needed).
If your eyewear are not automatically detected, go to the 'glasses' tab of the app and click 'search for new glasses'. Then follow the guide.
If an update is available for your eyewear, it will automatically push through. This can take a few minutes.
IMPORTANT: Disconnect the mobile app from your eyewear; to do this, force-close the app on your mobile phone. Next, turn your eyewear off and then back on. Now your Garmin device is free to connect to your eyewear.
3- Synchronize and update your Garmin device and app.
Your Garmin Bike Computer and the Garmin Connect app must both be updated with the latest version and communicating with each other.
Turn on your Garmin device and pair it with your Garmin Connect mobile app.
It is not working ? : This happens. Garmin has a special guide for this. Please check Garmin help here.
Check for a green dot on the Garmin device (top nav).
The Garmin Connect app will download software updates automatically behind the scenes while your device is connected to the app on your mobile phone. Once downloaded, updates will install automatically or prompt you to install them. Click here to get all the details regarding updates from Garmin.
4- Download the ActiveLook datafield on your Garmin device
In the Garmin Connect app, access the Menu:
On Android :
On iOS :
Scroll down, then click on Connect IQ Store.If Connect IQ is not installed yet on your phone, you will be prompted to install the Connect IQ application. Proceed with installation.
Search for "ActiveLook" via the search bar at the top of the screen.
Select ActiveLook - Datafield.
Select Download.
As your Garmin is synchronized with your Connect application the installation should proceed immediately.
You still need to activate the datafield in your selected Garmin activities to have it working. Here is how :
5- Activate the datafield for a Garmin Activity
To enable the ActiveLook data field, select it in any of your Garmin activities (sport applications).
Open the Activity for which the data field will be used: running, cycling, both, or something else.
Then select the Activity screen on which you want to display (and therefore activate) the ActiveLook Datafield.
To do so, on your Garmin Edge :
Select "MENU button" > Activity Profiles.
Select a profile.
Select Data Screens.
Select a data screen.
Double-tap a data field to change it.
In the field selection menu, scroll down and click on Connect IQ.
Choose ActiveLook DataField.
Select Done.
Now start the corresponding activity ("Cycling", here).
Turn your eyewear ON, it should automatically connect to your Garmin device.
Congratulations, you did it.
Not working ? Try a reboot of your Garmin device. it sometimes helps. More trouble shooting tips in last section here below.
This completes the basic connection process, however additional steps are possible to configure your data displays.
6- Configure your data screens
You can create up to 6 data dashboards, composed by combining 1 to 6 of the available metrics. There are more than 40 metrics available, follow the link to learn more.
By default the following screens are defined :
Cycling activities:
Screen n°1 : (1) Elapsed Time + (2) Distance + (4) Heart rate
Screen n°2 : (12) Speed + (18) Cadence
Screen n°3 : (6) Average Heart Rate + (14) Average Speed + (20) Average Cadence + (24) Average Ascent Speed
Screen n°4 : (5) Max HeartRate + (13) Max Speed + (19) Max Cadence + (22) Total Ascent
Screen n°5 : (0) Display Off
Running activities:
Screen n°1 : (1) Elapsed Time + (2) Distance + (4) Heart rate
Screen n°2 : (1) Elapsed Time + (2) Distance + (12) Speed
Screen n°3 : (10) Power 3" + (18) Cadence + (15) Pace
Screen n°4 : (0) Display Off
Default / other activities:
Screen n°1 : (1) Elapsed Time + (2) Distance + (12) Speed
Screen n°2 : (15) Pace + (4) Heart Rate + (2) Distance
Screen n°3 : (10) Power 3" + (18) Cadence + (22) Total Ascent
Screen n°4 : (0) Display Off
Edit your data screens
Open your Connect IQ application (warning: not 'Garmin Connect' application)
Select 'My device'
Then 'My Data fields'
Open ActiveLook Datafield
Choose 'Settings'
Edit, as shown below the 3 screen variables (Default / Running / Cycling). Indicate the combination of data you like, separated by comas, and without space.
See following examples :
(1,2,4)(1,2,12)(10,18,15)(0)
Will display :
Screen n°1 : (1 = Elapsed Time, 2 = Distance, 4 = Heart rate)
Screen n°2 : (1 = Elapsed Time, 2 = Distance, 12 = Speed)
Screen n°3 : (10 = Power 3", 18 = Cadence, 15 = Pace)
Screen n°4 : (0 = empty screen, display Off.)
The "Glasses name" DataField parameter
It is recommended not to edit this field: the ActiveLook Data Field will automatically register here the first pair of ActiveLook eyewear it has connected to.
Still, you may need to *erase the glasses name* in the following cases :
Your Garmin device has paired to the wrong eyewear.
You have new ActiveLook eyewear (congrats !) and need to reset the registered eyewear.
To do so, simply click on the registered 'glass name' and erase it.
7- Using Laps on ActiveLook
The ActiveLook Garmin Datafield can display your lap-specific metrics into your ActiveLook eyewear.
To do so, simply select the Lap variables you need (field number 33 to 43) and integrate them as part of your Garmin data screen: See how to edit your data screens, and list of available metrics here.
The corresponding metrics are reset when a new lap is started, whatever the new lap is manually triggered, or through Garmin auto-lap feature. Lap metrics are also reset at the start of a new step of your workout plan.
When a new lap is triggered, the data of the previous lap will be kept displayed, frozen for 10 seconds before being replaced by the metrics of the new lap.
8 - How to use the Triathlon or Multisport mode ?
In order to get your ActiveLook eyewear connected both for your Cycling and Running activities, you need to activate the Datafield inside *both* Cycling and Running activities on your Garmin watch. See above how to activate the datafield in a given activity.
The 'Triathlon mode', as well as Multisport mode would launch the corresponding activities sequentially, and enable our datafield in each of the activities in which it has been activated.
Note that you can configure different set of screen for each activities, as described in above section.
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