twowheelstom wrote: ↑Sat Mar 08, 2025 3:06 pm
here i googled which bluetooth device should I pair to my GPS first, my phone or my headset, and Google AI says this
When pairing Bluetooth devices with your GPS, pair the headset to the GPS first, then pair your phone to the GPS. This ensures the GPS processes music, navigation, and notifications, and avoids potential conflicts.
I am surprised that AI was able to come up with a good answer - given all of the rubbish answers that it must have trawled.
Yes - pair your headset to the Zumo first. I have a cardo edge and it has a roller wheel on the side. When it says pairing, it will pair as the first phone, the second phone or a GPS. If I leave the roller allown, it pairs as the first phone. If I roll it back, it pairs as a GPS. If I roll it forward it pairs as the second phone.
I roll it forward so that the GPS is paired as a second phone. That may seem illogical. Two reasons:
1. Using 2nd phone leaves the first phone available for when I need to use the Cardo app in order to make some changes. That way, I don't accidentally overwrite the pairing with the Zumo. I always destroy this pairing when I have finished with the app. I don't want the Zumo connecting to my phone.
2. I pair it as a 2nd phone and not as a GPS becasue the Zumo doesn't act like a GPS. As far as the headset is conecerned it looks like a phone - because all of the phone capabilities have been paired with the Zumo.
Once paired, play some music on Zumo - you mayneed to select the source and you may need to adjust the volume on the mixer, and you might alwo want to check that in the Zumo volume settings, the volume has not been muted.
Then on the Zumo - start a route so that it issues some instructions. Check that you hear them OK. The mixer has different volume levels for navigation, music and for audible beeps.
Then pair your phone to the Zumo. With the headset already paired - it will see the headset as the phone - but the pairing ahs to be done ont he phone itself. Allow it access to whatever it wants.
Once that is done you should have music and headphone cions lit up in the BT settings for your headset. You should have the handset lit up for your BT connection to your phone. Try calling yourself from another phone.
With that done, if you want traffic and text messages etc to come through the the Zumo, you need to download and install the Smartphone Link app. This is produced by Garmin and is free. If you want weather there is a one-off fee of not very much money £3-4 Ditto PhotoLive - but that stopped working on the XT so is probably not worth paying for. It shows images from the traffic cameras at certain junctions.
It takes a little while to set up Smartphone Link - the Zumo and the phone need to be BT together and byt the time you have sorted on out, the other has stopped listening. It also requests a passcode and suggests 0000 or 1234. In fact the passcode is sent to the Zumo and is a 6 digit number which you have to type in.
To access the features of Smartphone Link, you have to use your Garmin account - you might have set one up for your XT.
I've just (eventually) succeeded in reinstalling my Smartphone Link on my old phone to work with my old 595. I kept going back and forth. Once I deleted the BT pairings and started again. That - as it often does - works.
But do the first things first. Get phone calls coming through. Then if you need help - I can (probably) take you through the Smartphone Link set up - or I may have writtne some notes about it at the time. I'll have a look. I don't remember.
I am such an introvert
