Connect IQ data field · Live
The data field, inside your Garmin activities
It is not an app: it is a Sweliv cell you add to the Garmin activities on your watch (Run, Bike, Walk…). You start your Garmin session as usual, the cell streams and shows your viewers.
Before anything else: keep your phone with you, with Garmin Connect open in the background. A Garmin does not talk to Sweliv on its own, cellular models included: the phone is what carries your activity to Sweliv. Without it, the watch keeps everything and sends it as soon as the phone is back.
Getting started
Four steps, once. Every activity after that goes out on its own.
- 1
Install the field
From the Connect IQ store, install the Sweliv field on your watch.
- 2
Add it to a data screen
On your watch, add Sweliv to one of the data screens of the activity profile you use. Hold MENU during the activity, or set it from Garmin Connect.
- 3
Read your pairing code
Open that activity once so the field loads, then go to Garmin Connect: Devices, your watch, Connect IQ apps, Sweliv, Settings. Your code is displayed there. If it is not, the field shows it directly on its own cell, under the word CODE.
- 4
Type it into Sweliv
In the app: Settings, Connect an app, Garmin, Data field. The field switches from the code to your live counter within seconds, without leaving the activity.
The order matters: the code is generated by the watch itself, the first time the field actually runs. Installing the field alone is not enough, which is why it goes on a data screen before you go looking for the code.
What it does
Your routine untouched
You start your Run, Ride or Hike as usual and keep PacePro, ClimbPro, structured workouts, navigation and alerts.
A Sweliv counter
Live viewers, live views, comments or swelikes: what your watch cannot know on its own.
Everything lands in Sweliv
When you finish, the activity arrives with its track, heart-rate curve, power and cadence.
Garmin Connect unchanged
Your FIT file stays in Garmin Connect, so your training load, VO2 max and recovery are untouched.
Questions
What does the field show?
Live viewers, live views, comments or swelikes, picked in its settings. On a large cell the other counters stack underneath the one you picked; on a small one, only your pick is drawn.
Which metrics do my friends see?
By default your Sweliv app settings apply, so a heart rate you hid there stays hidden here. Turn on the first switch in the field settings to decide from the watch instead.
Who sees my live?
Broadcast live and Share my location are on by default in the field settings. You can set a privacy zone around your home, or broadcast without sharing your location: your friends still get your time, distance and heart rate, with no point on the map. The rest is set in the Sweliv app.
What about the walkie-talkie?
It runs in the Sweliv app and on Apple Watch. Connect IQ gives no audio access to a data field, so it is not available here.