Re: [Gpsbabel-misc] Temperature & heart rate data from Garmin Edge, FIT format

[H.Fos <gp...@po...>]

Hi Guys,
For what it's worth I just tried using Garmin Training Center (GTC) for 
my Forerunner 10, GTC reports info as being loaded but nothing shows.

Seaching garmin about this problem I discovered that Garmin no longer is 
supporting GTC and expects users to register with My Connect and upload 
there data to view it.

Tough if you don't have an internet connection.

GTC will Import saved TCX files.



Harry




On 9/10/2013 3:08 AM, Don Huston wrote:
> Hello FionnAjn,
>
> GPSBable is a great converter program but here is another way to get 
> the files you want with all the fitness data.
>
> Install the freeware Garmin Training Center.
> Add your device to the program and you can then directly upload your 
> Edge files (with all the fitness data) into the program.
> Then right click your track and "Export" to a New Folder on your 
> computer named "Fitness Tracks" or whatever.
> You can choose TCX (it will have all the fitness data).
> or GPX (no fitness data) or do it twice and get both.
>
> A hint.
> Rename the file starting with the "year-month-day-hour-min-sec".
> Then they will stay in exact chronological order in the folder.
>
> Don Huston
>
>
> At 05:06 AM 10/8/2013 Tuesday, Fionnán wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm using GPSBabel 1.4.4 on Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS to convert FIT files 
>> taken from a Garmin Edge device to GPX format
>>
>> The command I use to do this is:
>> gpsbabel -i garmin_fit -f infile.fit -o gpx -F outfile.gpx
>>
>> This works very well, however the resulting GPX file only has 
>> information about elevation, time, speed and GPS coordinates.
>>
>> I was wondering if it was possible to also extract the heart rate 
>> and  temperature data from a FIT file, I saw a mention of this 
>> functionality in the docs:
>>
>> http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_garmin.html 
>> <http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_garmin.html>
>>
>> "...while we do extract data such as heart rate and temperature from 
>> tracks on the sporting models like Edge and Forerunner, GPSBabel is 
>> not a fitness program at its core and does not support features like 
>> workouts or calorie/fitness zone data..."
>>
>> This also seems to have been discussed a few years ago here:
>> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.comp.hardware.gps.gpsbabel.general/month=20081001/page=2 
>>
>>
>> I would greatly appreciate any advice at all, I don't necessarily 
>> need to export this data to a GPX file, although it would be handy.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Fionnán
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