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More precisely: "inReach SOS and messaging continue to work." "inReach SOS and messaging have been fully functional and remain so." This is reassuring becaus
by 205guy 6y ago
More precisely:
"inReach SOS and messaging continue to work."
"inReach SOS and messaging have been fully functional and remain so."
This is reassuring because people who go to remote places and rely on the inReach satellite SOS and messaging have not been affected. If they had been affected, they would've been cut off with no explanation--for example unable to relay status to family, or to request an early pickup. While not in itself life-threatening, it would cause a lot of unnecessary worry and possibly unnecessary rescues.
I had wondered if their satellite messages was affected. Obviously, a message goes from the unit in the field to a ground-station, and then to the recipient's regular messaging or email. The question is whether it touched one of Garmin's servers to do that, and if that server was affected--apparently not.
- notacoward 6y agoI'll bet there's a PM somewhere who had to fight like hell to keep those systems separate and is feeling pretty damn vindicated right now.
- NotSammyHagar 6y agoFound a pm, ha! Whoever it was, good job. It's astounding that companies don't seem to have real recovery systems, this keeps happening.
- phatfish 6y agoThere must be some regulations that need to be met to run an SOS service? I bet if those didn't exist the SOS service would be down now as well and peoples lives would be in danger. The rest of their services clearly had as little spent on them as possible to "maximise shareholder return".
- labcomputer 6y agoFrustratingly, you still can't sync data with the Garmin Explore app, which means that you can't sync data with the actual inReach device (sign in is broken). You can send SOS and tracking points, and send/receive messages. But you can't get new courses and/or maps onto the device.
- canekong 6y agoThat is largely a luck and legacy thing. inReach is an acquisition by Garmin. They haven’t made significant changes to hardware and software besides rebranding things and adding integration to their newer units, e.g. I can trigger SOS from my watch. In fact the billing is completely separate.