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Garmin Connect and the Alpha 100

Garmin: I'd like to add the Alpha 100 to my Garmin Connect app to log mileage on two dogs. Why haven't you added this device to the available devices to sync? Whistle has an app to log dog activity but I prefer your gps dog tracking systems. Do you plan to add that function to Connect?

0 trux over 5 years ago

Just a note: you are here on the community forum speaking to other Garmin Connect users, your post may easily not become seen by anyone from Garmin.

I cannot speak for Garmin, but the obvious reason why the dog tracking device is not possible to add to Garmin Connect is simply because GC is designed to track your own activity, not the activity of your dogs, so it would completely mess up your statistics. Doesn't Garmin offer any dedicated application for the Alpha 100 device?

0 8139759 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Unfortunately, Garmin does not have an activity app for the Alpha 100. The Instinct watch has out the box pairing with the Alpha. For my application, it would be wonderful if they took it one step further to have multiple hiking logs in Connect, for myself and for my dogs. Whistle has multiple logs so it can't be that complicated, it's a matter of coding for multiple Garmin devices suppose.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to 8139759

8139759 said:
Whistle has multiple logs so it can't be that complicated, it's a matter of coding for multiple Garmin devices suppose.

No idea what is Whistle, but how exactly you wish it worked? Merging their data (distances, steps, calories, pace, HR, etc) and stats with your own ones, or keeping a separate sub account for each of your dogs? Merging their GPS tracks with yours into a single map, or again adding a separate map for each of you dogs somewhere? All of that would require important changes not only in the application strucure but also in the structure of the central database. It would be a pretty major project costing millions. Would be easier and safer to make it from the scratch as a dedicated application, but I am afraid that for that the market is too small, and it could never be cost-effective for Garmin.

0 8139759 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Garmin is in the business of tracking dogs. There is a large market of hunters and hikers. By building in the pairing of the Instinct and the Alpha they must see some application. I gear up with about $1,500 worth of Garmin products daily and would love further syncing capability. Seems like this exchange is a dead end. Thanks for talking the time to comment and I wish you a wonderful 2020.

0 solitone over 2 years ago in reply to trux

I’m resurrecting this 3 year old thread just to say that as of 2022 Alpha devices are still not supported in Garmin Connect app. I have a brand new Alpha 200i K, with inReach functionality, worth 800 €, dog collars excluded, that I use for tracking my dogs as well as for hiking, and I’d love to sync my activities (not necessarily my dogs’) with Garmin Connect, but there’s no way to pair the Alpha with that app. I need to sync my activities to a different app that suppors the Alpha, Garmin Explore, then I need to export an activity from Explore, and manually upload the GPS file to either Connect or Strava. It would be way easier to sync activities directly to Connect, or to have a way to sync activities from Explore to Connect, similarly to what you do with Connect syncing to Strava automatically.