Garmin Communicator getting FIT support
March 4th, 2010
After the Garmin Edge 500 came out with its new fileformat, FIT, I tried to get support for the device on the ridewithgps Garmin Sync page. However, using the exact same method Garmin Connect uses in the API, I was unable to get anything to work. Turns out, they blocked third party websites from using that portion of the API. Best guess says it is for bug testing purposes…It’s easier to debug something in a controlled environment you control, rather than hearing grief from all the developers using the API. In any event, they announced a beta developers plugin with support for FIT devices.
Announced in their forums here:
ridewithgps might be one of the first sites to support direct sync with FIT devices!
March 18th, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Thanks for the post – we’d been looking (and swearing!) at this too.
We’ll race you to be the first to support the direct sync – racing’s in our genes :)
(Although if we do spot any other gotchas then we’ll fire them back over to you as a thanks!)
March 22nd, 2010 at 01:11 AM
Hi again Cullen, just to let you know we’ve added FIT file upload on runsaturday, but haven’t yet closed the loop to include the javascript/plugin support (one job at a time). FIT file parsing has been hard work – much harder than the TCX basics! If you hit any problems, then get in touch – we owe you a favour because of these posts! Thanks!