Garmin Connect opening to all Garmin fitness devices

Garmin Connect will open it's doors to all Garmin fitness devices on May 26, 2009.

In a nutshell, here's what we're looking at:

• Garmin Connect will accept activities tracked by all Garmin fitness devices - running and cycling
• Garmin Connect is ready for the upcoming Forerunner 310XT and FR60
• A good portion of activities have been migrated from MotionBased to Garmin Connect
• The most recent activities have been migrated first as they're likely more pertinent to customers
• The remaining activities will continue to migrate over the summer
• Garmin Connect will accept activities tracked by outdoor and road devices later this summer
• Garmin Connect will be available in 14 languages
• Garmin Connect is compatible with Windows XP/Vista and Mac OS X 10.4+
• Garmin Connect officially supports production releases of IE 7/8, Firefox 3 and Safari 3
• Garmin Connect uses the same username/password as MotionBased

You can find more detailed information on the Migration Update page at MotionBased.

BTW... Garmin Connect will be down from 7AM - 6PM (Pacific Time) on May 26, 2009 while we make these changes.

Comments

[Mike]

"The remaining activities will continue to migrate over the summer"

Which summer? 2013? Given your track record, I am expecting a stuff up.

[Clark Weber]

Actually Mike, it will be this summer -- 2009.

[Mike]

Well, you missed that one again. Here on the southern hemisphere, the 2009 Summer has already passed.

Anyway, I only believe it when I see it but I would bet my money against you guys.

[Geoff]

GarminConnect is seriously lacking in information - heart rate splits, splits for ascent / descent / flat etc. I much prefer the Motion Based interface and available information. The only new gimmick is the player. Is it possible to elect to continue with Motion Based after the migration?

[Clark Weber]

Mike,

My bad. You did get me. Let me clarify...

95% of all MotionBased activities will be migrated by the end of June 2009. The remaining 5% will migrate over the next few months. It's hard to provide an exact date or month, for that matter, because some of those activities are either monstrously large or have errors in the data which require troubleshooting.

Our hope is that we will get the last 5% moved over by the latter half of Summer in the Northern Hemisphere -- hopefully August 2009 at the latest.

[Clark Weber]

Geoff,

Heart Rate and Power zone splits are missing from Garmin Connect. They are on the product roadmap to go out this year. We also plan to introduce a Hill splits feature that will be much more robust than MotionBased. You can imagine a Hills tab on the Splits page where we break down the data in tabular format.

We are introducing a more powerful Reports feature on May 26 which is a major upgrade over what resides at MotionBased and Garmin Connect today.

[jimmedy]

Well I was all excited about uploading my runs to connect rather than motionbased from my 305 but i get js errors when selecting to upload from a list (which i assume i need to do because i don't know if all my events are over from motionbased yet... and I don't want runs from my 305 to be doubleups when they finally move over)

SubID: 6
File: IOU_USBLINKIMPL.CPP
line: 754
Windows Error Code: 6
The handle is invalid.

Line: 386
Char: 3
Code: 0
URI: http://connect.garmin.com/resource/communicator-api/2.3-SNAPSHOT/garmin/device/GarminDevicePlugin.js

[Clark Weber]

Jimmedy,

We will look into this problem on our server logs. We have not seen this one before.

In the meantime, you can upload all of the activities from your 305 instead of from the list if that gets the activities over. You can delete activities on an individual basis for duplicates or you will be able to bulk delete activities with our next release of Garmin Connect -- late July time frame.

Once you have your activities over at Garmin Connect or MotionBased, I recommend deleting activities stored on your device. It will improve the upload performance from device to Garmin Connect. I suspect this could be the problem where you have one activity that has bad data being rejected by Garmin Connect.

[jimmedy]

I tried to do the full upload but that came up with the same error.
the error seems to come up as soon as i click upload... probably before it has a chance to actually look at the garmin.
feel free to email me on my supplied email address if you have any questions or want me to try anything.

[Chris]

Yaaay It happened!!

[Lynn Eisert]

Can someone answer this?
Just purchased a Forerunner 205. How do I get street names loaded into it?

LE

[Kathryn Krieger]

Hi Lynn,

The Forerunner 205 does not have the capacity to load street maps. The Edge 605/705 and the hand held devices are able to accept street maps.

kk

[ijuju]

great !
thanks !

can we expect the mb gravity web service for correct altitude smoothing implemented in garmin connect ?

[Clark Weber]

We are working on smoothing algorithms to improve elevation gain/loss reported at Garmin Connect. It won't be MB Gravity, but it will have a similar effect.

[Karthik Thirumalai]

I am trying to upload my activites from 305 to Garmin Connect and stuck at "reading activity from device" forever. Has anyone else seen this error? What is the workaround?

I tried both upload from list and upload new activities option and same result with both options.

[Clark Weber]

Make sure you're not using Garmin Communicator Plugin 2.7.1 which is incompatible with Garmin Fitness devices. You should be using version 2.6.4 until Garmin makes a patch to fix the bug in 2.7.1. - http://www8.garmin.com/products/communicator/

[Andreas]

Hi all,

today, 09/06/16 both Webservices are not available in Germany:

http://www.motionbased.com/
Zero Sized Reply

http://connect.garmin.com/
Service Unavailable - Zero size object
The server is temporarily unable to service your request. Please try again later.
Reference #15.595fb1cd.1245150439.31421e5

I bought a Garmin Forerunner because a webservice was announced - when will it happen to be reality?

Thanks
Andreas

[Clark Weber]

Apologies for the unplanned downtime of Garmin Connect and MotionBased on Tuesday, June 16 from 1-7AM (CDT). There was a major power outage at the location of our servers. We're up and running again.

[jimmedy]

The upload new activities function within garmin connect seems useless to existing users.
It only recognizes activities that have been uploaded via garmin connect as doubleups, so any activity I uploaded to motionbased it tries to upload again via connect.
With the manual selection having a de-select all checked activities (as they're all checked by default) would let me just upload new ones but it is still a pain.
Will this be fixed in the future? or will it always try and doubleup my old events?

[Kathryn Krieger]

Hi Jimmedy,

With the migration of data you will get duplicates if you keep your history on your device. I advise deleting old activities from your device.

kk

[Paul (I love my Garmin!)]

Thanks for posting... does this include my Garmin Forerunner 305? Because I just purchased one from a gps ratings web site and would like to get this new feature.

[Clark Weber]

Garmin Connect supports the Forerunner 305. Have at it.

[Garmin user]

There is no Croatia in it?

[Cables]

Hi,
Thanks for this update.The garmin-connect seems necessary to have with the fitness devices,after reading its features and capability to deliver for the users.