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Garmin LiveTrack

Put a Garmin watch or bike computer on your trip’s map. Add your address in Garmin Connect, then turn on Auto Start on your Garmin for each activity you use.

LiveTrack is Garmin’s own live sharing. Your watch sends its position through the Garmin Connect app on your phone. Once AdventureLive is one of your LiveTrack recipients, Garmin emails us the link when you start an activity, and we put you on your trip’s map.

1. Get your LiveTrack address

In AdventureLive, open My trackers and choose Get my LiveTrack address. It’s yours alone: 10 letters and numbers starting with l, then @live.livedot.me. It’s the same address in Windline, RunFast and AdventureLive, so you set Garmin up once for all three. Choose Copy.

Added an address starting with a before? It keeps working. You don’t have to change anything.

2. In Garmin Connect, on your phone

1. Tap More at the bottom right, then Safety & Tracking, then LiveTrack.
2. The first time, tap Set up LiveTrack and agree to Garmin’s terms.
3. Under recipients, tap Add, choose to type an email address, and paste your address. Save.
4. If you see an Auto Start switch, turn it on.
5. Leave any LiveTrack passcode off. We can’t read a session that has one.

3. On your Garmin, once for each activity you use

Garmin keeps Auto Start on the device, for each kind of activity (Hike, Bike, Run…), so turn it on there too:

• Edge: ☰, then Safety & Tracking, LiveTrack, Auto Start.
• Watch: start the activity, open its LiveTrack option and choose Auto Start.

From then on LiveTrack starts by itself every time you start that activity, without you touching your phone.

4. Keep your phone with you

Bluetooth on, and Garmin Connect allowed to run in the background. LiveTrack goes out through your phone, unless your watch has LTE. That’s it: start your activity as you normally would.

When you’re on the map, and when you’re not

• Only during your trips. You’re on the map only while one of your AdventureLive trips is running: from an hour before a leg starts until it ends. Your trip’s link must be on.
• Everyday activities stay private. With Auto Start on, Garmin emails us every activity, including your Tuesday run. If no trip of yours is running, we ignore it: nothing is shown and nothing is read.
• Followers see our map, not Garmin’s. We never pass on Garmin’s own LiveTrack link, which shows more than you chose to share.

Without phone signal

LiveTrack needs your phone to have signal. Out of signal, your dot stays where it was last seen, with “Seen … ago”. For places with no signal, carry an inReach or a SPOT too. You can link it in My trackers as well, and the freshest position wins. There is always one dot.

Stopping it

To stop Garmin emailing us, remove the address from your LiveTrack recipients in Garmin Connect. To stop us reading it, choose Remove next to LiveTrack in My trackers. Windline and RunFast keep using the same address.

LiveTrack is not a rescue service and has no SOS. If you might be in danger, call your local emergency number, or use your inReach’s or SPOT’s SOS.