SkyCaddie LX5 GPS Smartwatch
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Which watch that has auto shot detection are you using?
Garmin approach s60. It automatically detects each shot and asks which club I hit after each swing.
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I have an S60 around here somewhere and I don’t recall that feature, but I don’t think I’d use it if it functions like you said. I don’t like that much interaction with my watch
Does it also allow you to track Fairways and bunkers in the scorecard functionality?
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The hole overview with GPS distance is AWESOME. I had a few layups short of water and got yards to a safe landing area and the distance for the next shot. Snappy and user friendly implementation.
The LX5 is a rock solid watch/hand held hybrid. I only have two criticisms so far but I’m hopeful some settings can fix them. First, the auto setting on the lighting comes up dark at first and adjusts over a second or two based on the sunlight. It’s not a big deal and I think you can disable it (so let’s hold this one because maybe it’s not anything). Two, it vibrates asking if you finished a hole with the auto hole change. But often it asked me as I was walking UP to the green for the first time. It’s the only time it vibrates, so it’s weird. And annoying. I can’t find a setting for it but I really hope I’m just missing it.
That’s about it on the bad stuff. EVERYTHING else was smooth on the first round.
The LX5 is a rock solid watch/hand held hybrid. I only have two criticisms so far but I’m hopeful some settings can fix them. First, the auto setting on the lighting comes up dark at first and adjusts over a second or two based on the sunlight. It’s not a big deal and I think you can disable it (so let’s hold this one because maybe it’s not anything). Two, it vibrates asking if you finished a hole with the auto hole change. But often it asked me as I was walking UP to the green for the first time. It’s the only time it vibrates, so it’s weird. And annoying. I can’t find a setting for it but I really hope I’m just missing it.
That’s about it on the bad stuff. EVERYTHING else was smooth on the first round.
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So my last update got a little buried by a little event that was going on so I wanted to spring this to the top of the new posts. I’ll be adding more thoughts later today’s round (maybe nine, maybe 18).
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Were you able to dive into settings a bit in regards to the lighting?
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The battery life on the watch during a round (even with the highest setting) has been great. It cautions you to make sure to charge before each round, which I've done, and I have never had less than 50% battery after a round. For example, the watch is currently at 66% - I charged it last night and played 18 holes today. Not really an issue, although it may not last two rounds and two days off the charger, if that makes sense.
I wore it as my daily watch for four days and had no issues with the battery during that time. I did stop that trial to fully charge it before the round because I think that is more important of a test. I will say, it isn't my favorite watch to wear every day because its pretty big. And while it does track heartrate and steps, it doesn't sync to any of the accounts that I use to track this information so it was basically wasted long term.
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Honestly I'm not sure, but I have a guess. The good news is that it comes with three years (or 5 if you order that version) of membership with the purchase. My best guess of what happens without a membership is that it won't sync with the SkyCaddie servers, which means no watch updates and no course updates. Again, that's just my guess.
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There is such a drastic disconnect between the hardware of the LX5 (which has been pretty darn good) and the app and computer software on the backend (which is painful at its best). The watch checks nearly all of the boxes, minus a few minor annoyances I am trying to get rid of with settings, but the software feels like windows 98.
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That is super interesting. The watch looks so good. Has a ton of features. Hearing the software is yuck is not ideal. But not the end of the world I guess.
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I agree with this take. You can set the watch to sync and update everything over WiFi, which completely bypasses the bad software (after the initial painful setup process) and I highly recommend that approach.
If you are buying the watch for the features of the watch, it’s a good buy. If you are including the backend score tracking or software features in your reason for buying, that will be a disappointment and I would basically guarantee it.
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So I turned all vibrations off for this round to try to cure the seemingly random vibrations asking if I finished a hole (sometimes before I reached the green). Huge, epic, colossal mistake. The prompts asking if I have finished a hole still happen but without a vibration - sure, whatever that’s fine. But it turns out if you DON’T RESPOND IT DOES THREE LONG VIBRATIONS ASKING IF YOU ARE DONE GOLFING!!! What kind of logic is that?!
Worse yet, it seems based on time so it can happen anytime. Once I was standing over a putt and another I was grabbing a club to hit. The big “All done?” Style question came up maybe 6-7 times today and it was super jarring. No, SkyCaddie, I’m not done after two holes. Just assume I’m playing 18 - when I’m more than 999 yards away from a hole, go ahead and ask.
My guess (based on the stats I see) is that these questions are so it can accurately track your pace on each hole but I don’t care about that as much as not being distracted randomly with a prompt I can’t ignore. The implementation is really close with the LX5 but that part needs to go away and yesterday.
Worse yet, it seems based on time so it can happen anytime. Once I was standing over a putt and another I was grabbing a club to hit. The big “All done?” Style question came up maybe 6-7 times today and it was super jarring. No, SkyCaddie, I’m not done after two holes. Just assume I’m playing 18 - when I’m more than 999 yards away from a hole, go ahead and ask.
My guess (based on the stats I see) is that these questions are so it can accurately track your pace on each hole but I don’t care about that as much as not being distracted randomly with a prompt I can’t ignore. The implementation is really close with the LX5 but that part needs to go away and yesterday.
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Oh no. That would drive me bonkers. It’s not my fault that people are in front of me and it is taking longer on a hole.
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It’s not tied to the time on the hole, but how long the “did you finish hole 7?” prompt sits on the screen but it’s ABSOLUTELY annoying as heck. So it makes you respond to silly prompts every hole or other prompts as it just randomly as it tries to turn off. Man, that needs to change.
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That’s a really big deal breaker right there
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Such an easy fix too, they just have to program it in. Firmware updates are stupid easy to install on the user side so now it’s up to them.