Once you have the Surf Tracker App on the watch it’s actually a data screen. So, you need to create a new Sports profile – I called mine ‘Surf’. Once you’ve done that, edit the data screens for that sports profile and make the first data screen layout into the layout with a single data field. You then need to select the Surf Tracker Data field to be displayed here.

Hope that makes sense.
Al.

Ive hade some wave sup sessions (when the ice has finally left here) and tried the function and seems to work, but as you say a bit awkward. As software developer myself i understand it would be very easy to improve the format 🙂

Another thing I noticed, it seems like I dont get as many big spikes, like 200kph max speeds.
Do you know if they have improved the filtering of unrealistic data?
Seems so…

I have tried that… To save a txt file with your wave data in it you just need to create a textfile in the /GARMIN/APPS/LOGS folder on your device, This text file has to be called the same as the Big Wave Dave app program file. So, the best way to find out what to call this txt file is to remove the Big Wave Dave App from yur Fenix 3, then take a look in the /GARMIN/APPS folder on your Fenix 3 device (you can do this by simply browsing through the drive that mounts on your computer when you plug it in via USB.

Next, reinstall the Big Wave Dave app and find the new App file that has been created in the /GARMIN/APPS folder. It should be around 8Kb in size and is named with a random sequence of numbers and letters. Mine is 418EC811.PRG.

Armed with this knowledge I then create a blank .txt file in the /GARMIN/APPS/LOGS folder on my Fenix 3 and give it the same name but with the .TXT suffix. e.g. 418EC811.TXT
All of the data from the Big Wave Dave app will now be written to this file which you can browse at your leisure

The data in it will look something like this

1 15:26 18 24.8 91.2
2 15:42 14 22.8 71.2
3 15:49 21 24.2 111.2

each line is a separate wave with the data arranged as follows;
Wave Number, Time of Day, Wave Ride Time (sec), Wave Ride Max Speed(kph), Wave Ride Distance(m)

Kind of interesting but it is a little crude. Mind you it wouldn’t take much programming to make something useful from the data, and it would be nicer if it could be presented in a better, graphical format but I don’t know of anyone who has done this yet.

Al.

I think it’s Called ‘Big Wave Dave’.

Al.

Quick question. I can’t seem to find the app you are using in the IQ store. What is the name of it?

Thank you.

/Nikolaj