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Need help from real people for my project
Hi 👋 guys and girls :) i would need your help! I would need some fit files (garmin activity) for hiking, walking, running? You are probably asking yourself why, I’m building an app for macos which would give you an easy to read data from those analytics. I have only cycling activities thats why im asking you for your help. No data will be shared with any 3rd parties! You can also poke me on DM to get even more overview of the project.For testing purposes l’m missing those activity types. Thank you for your time reading this and maybe even helping me out!
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Not sure if you've seen it, but the official Garmin FIT SDK ships with a bunch of sample .fit files you can test against right away, and the SDK docs describe every activity type so you can at least build the parsing before real files show up. Also worth telling people exactly how to get you the files: in Garmin Connect on the web you open an activity, hit the gear icon and choose Export Original, which gives a zip with the raw .fit inside. Most people don't know that (I just learned it myself recently), so spelling it out will probably get you more responses in this thread. Good luck with the app, always nice to see native Mac projects for this stuff.
Hi mate, thank you for the info. I’m not using the garmin sdk at the moment. But once again thank you for the comment, I appreciate it! BR
So you want people to give you their personal data, for free?
Nobody said that. But like ive stated in the comment below. I found I way and I dont need it anymore :)
Thank you for the notice, but was sure it does 😂 You have a point, they would recieve a one year premium for free. I didn’t meant to DM me about the app itself but if someone would send me the fit file that way would be safer. Thank you for pointing out those things :) i appreciate it. Quick update: at the moment I don’t need any activities, because I changed the logic and found a way to create fit files from my workout. So now I have multiple types for testing! BR
You might not need to rely on donated personal files. Garmin’s FIT SDK includes example activity files and tools for encoding and decoding FIT data. There are also public FIT test-file collections with running, walking and hiking samples. They will not replace real-world edge cases, but they should be enough to build and test the first version without asking strangers to send private activity data.
Yeah was also thinking about that, but now I moved in a little different way. Because I don’t want to be restricted to garmin fit files :) have changed the logic and now im able to test other types :) but thanks for the info and purposal <3 BR
Hi, could you provide instructions where can I get these files? I don’t have a lot of them, but I have garmin can record my walks if it works for you I also have some gym sessions recorded
Hi 👋 you get those files from website garmin connect - activity - export as file and save it as activityxxx.fit :) if you need additional info I can provide it later in the evening
You know Reddit doesn’t use hashtags. I’d be wary of someone asking for favors on a platform they didn’t take a minute to learn how it works. Will people who contribute get something in return? Free copies of the software? Why do we have to use DM - why don’t you just put the details right here?