How to install the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer

The Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer for Garmin can be used to track your burn and intake in real time during your bike ride. In this article we explain how you can install the data field on your Garmin.

Compatible devices

The Carbohydrate / Burn Intake Balancer can be used on a number of Garmin Edge cycling computers with touchscreen:

• Edge 1040
• Edge 1030 (Plus)
• Edge 840
• Edge 830
• Edge Explore 2

Other Garmin Edge device are not compatible because either their firmware is too old (e.g. Edge 820) or they don’t have touchscreen (e.g. Edge 540). Garmin smartwatches are not compatible either because data fields on those devices are not allowed to handle input from the device user.

How to install the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer data field

1. Make sure you have the EatMyRide mobile app. To use all the functionality of the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer you need EatMyRide Premium.
2. Make sure you have the Garmin Connect IQ app installed on your smartphone. Then download the data field from the Garmin Connect IQ store.
3. Garmin puts your download in a queue. Sync your Garmin device until the Connect IQ app states that the app is downloaded.
4. To activate the data field on your Garmin device, first open the menu on the device. Select Activity Profile and Add/edit a data field. Add the data field by clicking Add new to add a new data fields screen, and clicking consecutively ConnectIQ and EatMyRide Balancer. This data field has to be fullscreen.

Now the data field is installed. The only thing left to do is to make sure the data field uses the correct information. To do so, you need to sync your profile and nutrition products from the mobile app to the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer data field:

1. In the EatMyRide mobile app go to Home > Garmin and select the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer app. Click on Sync data with the app. You will see all your devices which are available via Garmin Connect. If you have connected your device via Bluetooth, it will be marked as Connected.
2. Select the connected Garmin Edge device. Now your profile data will by synced to the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer app.
3. To configure the nutrition products for the Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer, again go to Home > Garmin apps > Carbohydrate Burn / Intake Balancer and select Configure nutrition products.
4. Add the products you want to get on your Garmin and remove unnecessary ones. Click Save. Follow the instructions on the screen to sync the data to the app on your Garmin device.