Sync from Garmin Account

[Jean Div]

Hi All

I know that GC can sync from TrainingPeaks, but unfortunately the files come through with none of the 'new' training metrics - Ground Contact Time and Cadence for running, L/R balance for cycling, cadence for swimming. There may be more. I also tried linking the Tapiriik with my dropbox, but ran into the same problem. So I found myself either manually downloading .FIT files from connect, or creating Hazel rules to automatically copy the .fit files from my device when I plug them in to charge. Both felt a bit hacky, and I'm sure that other GC users are running into the same problem.

Then I stumbled upon Peter Gardfjall's excellent script on GitHub - https://github.com/petergardfjall/garminexport. It is brilliant because you can specify the format of the file that you want (.fit, .tcx, etc) and it will sync to a folder. I have my server run a cronjob every 30 minutes or so to check for new files, and the sync the new files only with BTSYNC to the GC auto-add folder. It feels MUCH neater and now I don't need to worry if my 920XT uploads over WiFi, or if my 520 automagically uploads after a ride while connected to bluetooth.

Firstly, just wanted to point this out in case any other GC users were running into the same issue.

Then for a more permanent fix, would we be able to build this into GC so that we can sync to Garmin Connect directly, much like TP currently exists (Upload, Download, Synchronise)..?

Ta,

Jean

[Mark Liversedge]

On Saturday, 30 January 2016 19:25:33 UTC, Jean Div wrote:

Then for a more permanent fix, would we be able to build this into GC so that we can sync to Garmin Connect directly, much like TP currently exists (Upload, Download, Synchronise)..?

Thanks for the heads up on the code, it looks like we could implement GarminConnect sync re-using the approach.

Will create a FR for this, as it look quite possible to do.

Mark 

[Jean Div]

Hey Mark

Just wanted to check.. where is the official maintained list of feature requests for GC..? And is it the right thing to do to just post them as topic to this list?

Ta,

Jean

[Mark Liversedge]

On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:44:58 UTC, Jean Div wrote:

Just wanted to check.. where is the official maintained list of feature requests for GC..? And is it the right thing to do to just post them as topic to this list?

https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/issues

You can post to this list but they won't get into the development queue!

Mark