Greetings to beloved community,
Two questions for those familiar with - with Garmin discontinuing inReach SE and SE+ what options do we have in terms of texting directly within devise?
That was the whole purpose of me holding into my old SE. I do not feel great about needing frequent recharge both phone and Garmin. So never used Earthmate app on the trail and learned to do customized texts within inReach itself. One reason I would like to continue with this feature is because something can happen to the phone (they are not as sturdy now as Nokias ones were) and for that matter I had an accident on the trail with my phone falling into the stream and unusable for the rest of the trip. That means with new line of Garmin mini and messenger , just like zoleo you are bound to use an app?
The other questions is your preferred offline weather apps?
Someone on FB immediately jumped in with “text your daughter or partner etc”, but that wasn’t my question. I like to have my independent plan and options.
Thoughts?
I know there are tremendous engineering brains and backcountry loners here :)
Thank you!
Karina Bezkrovnaia

On Mar 11, 2023, at 08:41, Derek Koonce <derek@...> wrote:

?I found OpenSnow and OpenSummit to be great apps for weather prediction, smoke maps, etc. One subscription gets both unlimited. I believe it was $29/yr.

I use the OpenSnow to track the snow fall predictions - the main reason it was put together by some great weather predictors and not your common weather station hack. Brian, who covers the Tahoe region is fantastic in his detailed reports and discusses the various models.

OpenSummit is the summer app that provides weather at numerous peaks. One can even download a map section. This provides snow depths, smoke coverage, and many other overlays.

They do great predictions out 5 days, which is typical. They go out to 10 days as well. Also, they operate world wide as well; though I have not looked at areas such as middle of Siberia or China or Africa, etc.

I have been using both for several years now, and have been very pleased with both apps.

Two Dogs

On 3/11/2023 08:24, Karina Bezkrovnaia via groups.io wrote:
Greetings to beloved community,
Two questions for those familiar with - with Garmin discontinuing inReach SE and SE+ what options do we have in terms of texting directly within devise?
That was the whole purpose of me holding into my old SE. I do not feel great about needing frequent recharge both phone and Garmin. So never used Earthmate app on the trail and learned to do customized texts within inReach itself. One reason I would like to continue with this feature is because something can happen to the phone (they are not as sturdy now as Nokias ones were) and for that matter I had an accident on the trail with my phone falling into the stream and unusable for the rest of the trip. That means with new line of Garmin mini and messenger , just like zoleo you are bound to use an app?
The other questions is your preferred offline weather apps?
Someone on FB immediately jumped in with “text your daughter or partner etc”, but that wasn’t my question. I like to have my independent plan and options.
Thoughts?
I know there are tremendous engineering brains and backcountry loners here :)
Thank you!
Karina Bezkrovnaia

On Mar 11, 2023, at 09:12, Anand Kumar Sankaran <anand.sankaran@...> wrote:

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You can send canned messages out of Inreach Mini, you don't need to use the phone to send those messages.

On Sat, 11 Mar 2023 at 09:10, Karina Bezkrovnaia via <kbezkrovnaia=[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you ? Derek,
So no issues to get all that info offline , right ? I’m not happy with inReach weather reports for that matter.
I have downloaded both apps, just haven’t decided on subscription.
Gaia killed FarOut for me as I always needed to plot my own and see alt options ones out there. So was looking for similar experience with weather. And I’m stationed in Tahoe in Winter and most of the Summer, so that is great to know !

Karina Bezkrovnaia

> On Mar 11, 2023, at 08:41, Derek Koonce <derek@...> wrote:
>
> ?I found OpenSnow and OpenSummit to be great apps for weather prediction, smoke maps, etc. One subscription gets both unlimited. I believe it was $29/yr.
>
> I use the OpenSnow to track the snow fall predictions - the main reason it was put together by some great weather predictors and not your common weather station hack. Brian, who covers the Tahoe region is fantastic in his detailed reports and discusses the various models.
>
> OpenSummit is the summer app that provides weather at numerous peaks. One can even download a map section. This provides snow depths, smoke coverage, and many other overlays.
>
> They do great predictions out 5 days, which is typical. They go out to 10 days as well. Also, they operate world wide as well; though I have not looked at areas such as middle of Siberia or China or Africa, etc.
>
> I have been using both for several years now, and have been very pleased with both apps.
>
> Two Dogs
>
>> On 3/11/2023 08:24, Karina Bezkrovnaia via wrote:
>> Greetings to beloved community,
>> Two questions for those familiar with - with Garmin discontinuing inReach SE and SE+ what options do we have in terms of texting directly within devise?
>> That was the whole purpose of me holding into my old SE. I do not feel great about needing frequent recharge both phone and Garmin. So never used Earthmate app on the trail and learned to do customized texts within inReach itself. One reason I would like to continue with this feature is because something can happen to the phone (they are not as sturdy now as Nokias ones were) and for that matter I had an accident on the trail with my phone falling into the stream and unusable for the rest of the trip. That means with new line of Garmin mini and messenger , just like zoleo you are bound to use an app?
>> The other questions is your preferred offline weather apps?
>> Someone on FB immediately jumped in with “text your daughter or partner etc”, but that wasn’t my question. I like to have my independent plan and options.
>> Thoughts?
>> I know there are tremendous engineering brains and backcountry loners here :)
>> Thank you!
>> Karina Bezkrovnaia
>
>
>
>
>

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anand

On Mar 11, 2023, at 09:37, Henning Rech <whrech@...> wrote:

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Hi Karina,

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with the mini/mini2 you can text directly from the device.

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The user interface to type in a customized text is obviously poor, with just 4 keys, but in case of emergency or with enough patience, it is possible.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=6QHPoAkPk8Ae3k4323WjQ9

Otherwise just keep the SE.

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Henning

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PS: you know that you can use earthmate in flight mode of your phone, just Bluetooth has to be activated. I do not see a big increase in power consumption, especially when you may just activate it once in the evening?

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Greetings to beloved community,
Two questions for those familiar with - with Garmin discontinuing inReach SE and SE+ what options do we have in terms of texting directly within devise?
That was the whole purpose of me holding into my old SE. I do not feel great about needing frequent recharge both phone and Garmin. So never used Earthmate app on the trail and learned to do customized texts within inReach itself. One reason I would like to continue with this feature is because something can happen to the phone (they are not as sturdy now as Nokias ones were) and for that matter I had an accident on the trail with my phone falling into the stream and unusable for the rest of the trip. That means with new line of Garmin mini and messenger , just like zoleo you are bound to use an app?
The other questions is your preferred offline weather apps?
Someone on FB immediately jumped in with “text your daughter or partner etc”, but that wasn’t my question. I like to have my independent plan and options.
Thoughts?
I know there are tremendous engineering brains and backcountry loners here :)
Thank you!
Karina Bezkrovnaia





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Karina,

I don't think ANY of the weather apps mentioned work "offline", i.e. with no cellular coverage.?

Have you looked at asking for a "Premium Weather Forecast" from your InReach?

See here:?

Here is a separate free weather service for InReach that works by you sending a message to a specific address and receiving back a message with a shortened forecast:

Another one I found is OCENS SpotCast, which is not free.? Never tried it.? The responses seem difficult to interpret in my opinion.

On Mar 13, 2023, at 06:30, Derek Koonce <derek@...> wrote:

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I agree, for up-to-date weather, one must have some type of electronic contact with the world. The OpenSummit/Snow grabs ten days worth of information, though beyond 5 days things can change. But it can give a great trend until next cell phone coverage. Just not sure about opening the app and have it use the most recent weather data to display.

Two Dogs

On 3/13/2023 06:08, Jeff McWilliams wrote:

Karina,

I don't think ANY of the weather apps mentioned work "offline", i.e. with no cellular coverage.?

Have you looked at asking for a "Premium Weather Forecast" from your InReach?

See here:?

Here is a separate free weather service for InReach that works by you sending a message to a specific address and receiving back a message with a shortened forecast:

Another one I found is OCENS SpotCast, which is not free.? Never tried it.? The responses seem difficult to interpret in my opinion.

On Mar 13, 2023, at 06:30, Derek Koonce <derek@...> wrote:

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I agree, for up-to-date weather, one must have some type of electronic contact with the world. The OpenSummit/Snow grabs ten days worth of information, though beyond 5 days things can change. But it can give a great trend until next cell phone coverage. Just not sure about opening the app and have it use the most recent weather data to display.

Two Dogs

On 3/13/2023 06:08, Jeff McWilliams wrote:

Karina,

I don't think ANY of the weather apps mentioned work "offline", i.e. with no cellular coverage.?

Have you looked at asking for a "Premium Weather Forecast" from your InReach?

See here:?

Here is a separate free weather service for InReach that works by you sending a message to a specific address and receiving back a message with a shortened forecast:

Another one I found is OCENS SpotCast, which is not free.? Never tried it.? The responses seem difficult to interpret in my opinion.

On Mar 13, 2023, at 09:31, Jeff McWilliams <jeff.mcwilliams@...> wrote:

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Can you point to something on the OpenSnow/OpenSummit that claims you can get forecast data while offline?

I can't find anything like that.? The only reference to "Offline" access is the ability to , along with your phone's GPS to pinpoint your location on the map.
That's not the same as requesting and receiving back an updated weather forecast.

I see what you mean! Then I misread that ! Bummer :(

Karina Bezkrovnaia

On Mar 13, 2023, at 09:31, Jeff McWilliams <jeff.mcwilliams@...> wrote:

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Can you point to something on the OpenSnow/OpenSummit that claims you can get forecast data while offline?

I can't find anything like that.? The only reference to "Offline" access is the ability to , along with your phone's GPS to pinpoint your location on the map.
That's not the same as requesting and receiving back an updated weather forecast.