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Guide for getting spotify to sync on Vivoactive 3 on 1 out of 10 days

9044450
over 5 years ago

Hi all,

See below the steps I follow when I need to sync a playlist from Spotify to my Vivoactive 3:

  • Make sure you have a happy day ... you are not stressed... did not have a setback at work, no fights with your spouse; make sure you are in the mood that nothing can brings you down
  • I only get it to work using the hotspot on my phone (android), so not home wifi

Before every playlist:

  • restart your garmin
  • disable and enable hotspot on your phone
  • make sure you got an exceptionally good 4G connection
  • and syncing the playlist of choice works 1 out of 10 days...

Today I was able to sync two playlist on a single day... one of the best days of my life....

On a slightly more serious note:

  • If you are buying the Vivoactive 3 music for spotify... ehm ehm.... dont. Just choose between awesome sport watch (like garmin) or awesome productivity watch (like apple, samsung)
  • For the Garmin team... you got excellent engineers... get in contact with spotify and re-engineer this thing.. this clumsy "using a wifi connection to sync" is not working at all.

Update:

  • managed to do another playlist; if you find a spot that it works, stay on that same square meter for subsequent spots... Even if its the toilet...
  • 0 over 5 years ago
    9044450 said:
    For the Garmin team... you got excellent engineers... get in contact with spotify and re-engineer this thing..

    As far as I can see, the Spotify widget was developped by Spotify engineers, so perhaps it would me more appropriate posting these comments on their support forum.

    And BTW, the Spotify feed to Garmin watches does work with WiFi (on compatible watches, including the Vivoactive 3), so if it does not work for you, I'd check out whether the local WiFi network was properly added to your watch settings. You can find the instructions in the Vivoactive 3 user manual here: https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/vivoactive3music/EN-US/GUID-575CE1BC-7F3C-4024-AD75-51A64A4F0B72.html

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Thanks for the manual; not needed as this works, yet very very instable. I know it works on WIFI.

    Regarding "who developed".. I am sensing that I am touching a nerve at you. Sorry for that.... However .. it is Garmin who advertises with this capability, selling products with this capability as distinctive feature... and even if Spotify developed this, it is and should be an equally high drive from Garmin to get this stabilized. 

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 9044450
    9044450 said:
    I know it works on WIFI.

    What I meant is that you can connect directly to a WiFi Access Point with high througput and good signal, instead of using your phone's WiFi hotspot over 4G. Perhaps the syncing would be stabler and quicker. Did you try that?

    9044450 said:
    I am sensing that I am touching a nerve at you

    No really, I'am not affiliated to Garmin :-)  So feel free to go on with the invectives, if it helps you to relax.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux
    trux said:
    What I meant is that you can connect directly to a WiFi Access Point with high througput and good signal, instead of using your phone's WiFi hotspot over 4G. Perhaps the syncing would be stabler and quicker. Did you try that?

    First thing I tried obviously...Even less table.. 4G is very good around here. Use if for netflix, live tv etc etc.

    trux said:
    No really, I'am not affiliated to Garmin :-)  So feel free to go on with the invectives, if it helps you to relax.

    :-D Am very relaxed. Was able to sync three playlists yesterday!! Am on the moon now!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to 9044450
    9044450 said:
    4G is very good around here

    It is not necessarilly the problem of the 4G, but of the route Spotify » 4G » phone » WiFi hotspot » watch. As you do not know where the bottleneck really is, eliminating as much of the route as you can, to detect it, is crucial for finding the bottleneck. Although the limitation may be due to the WiFi of the watch, due to the speed of writing on the internal flash memory, or even due to the Spotify widget software, it can be also because of numerous other reasons, absolutely out of control of Garmin. Unless you have a clear evidence that the fault is on Garmin's side, accusing them of wrongdoing may or may not be right. However, the presumption of guilt is the rule here on the forum (although in majority of cases completely unjustified), so you are defnitely not an exception, and it is no big deal.