{"id":19620,"date":"2023-03-07T15:01:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=19620"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:19:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T20:19:38","slug":"garmin-edge-530-wifi-connection-weirdness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/07\/garmin-edge-530-wifi-connection-weirdness\/","title":{"rendered":"Garmin Edge 530 WiFi Connection Weirdness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I tried to connect my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/en-US\/p\/621224\">Garmin Edge 530<\/a> running the latest firmware (<a href=\"https:\/\/forums.garmin.com\/sports-fitness\/cycling\/f\/edge-530\/316477\/new-edge-530-version-9-73-now-available\">v9.73<\/a>) to my home wireless network, and couldn&#8217;t get it working. my friend Nick dug up a solution, so I wanted to share it here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem I had is that when trying to find the network to join, either in the <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.garmin.com\">Garmin Connect<\/a> mobile app or right on the device, my WPA2-secured wireless network would be shown as <em>Unsecured<\/em> and I couldn&#8217;t join it. No matter what I tried, on device or in app, switching around network types, names, security, or bands, the Edge 530 always saw it as <em>Unsecured<\/em>. The one thing I didn&#8217;t try was making a non-secured network, but that&#8217;s not an option for me.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-260x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-886x1024.png 886w, https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-768x888.png 768w, https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-1329x1536.png 1329w, https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image.png 1464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Turns out you can work around this by using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garmin.com\/en-US\/software\/express\/windows\/\">Garmin Express<\/a> desktop app then going into the 530, <em>Tools &amp; Content<\/em>, <em>Utilities<\/em>, then under <em>Wi-Fi Networks<\/em> manually adding the network with appropriate security, password, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After saving settings and ejecting the device it joined my wireless network, as confirmed on the device, in the DHCP leases, and on the APs themselves. Now it&#8217;ll automatically sync rides whenever I get back home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Something else odd is the Edge 530 truncates 32-character SSIDs. My network at home is <code>Smart Meter Surveillance Network<\/code>, which is 32 ASCII characters long. This is <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Service_set_(802.11_network)#Service_set_identifier\">the maximum allowed by 802.11<\/a>, which is 32 octets, or 32 sets of 8 bytes, or 32 ASCII characters. For some reason in much of the Garmin UI it&#8217;d drop the last character, truncating to <code>Smart Meter Survellance Networ<\/code>. Thinking this was the problem I first dug into network name as a problem but eventually found a shorter SSID didn&#8217;t help. Also, this isn&#8217;t the first device I&#8217;ve had with SSID length problems (see <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/14\/bypassing-reolink-ssid-length-limitation\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"19134\">Bypassing Reolink SSID Length Limitation<\/a>); thankfully in this case it only seemed to be a display issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I tried to connect my Garmin Edge 530 running the latest firmware (v9.73) to my home wireless network, and couldn&#8217;t get it working. my&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2023\/03\/07\/garmin-edge-530-wifi-connection-weirdness\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Garmin Edge 530 WiFi Connection Weirdness<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","category-cycling","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19624,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19620\/revisions\/19624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}