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How to add my personal type of activity in G.Connect?

Sup4you
over 5 years ago

I want to add my personal type of activity eg. Kitesurfing into G.Connect app but can't find a way how to do it. There is no Kitesurfing in standard activity list in the app. Why support did not open this option in the app? How to explain them that I need to have this chance due their designers sucks! Anybody have this experience? 

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  • 0 over 5 years ago

    I don't know what watch you use, but on most Garmin watches, you can add a new activty type and name it as you want. It is not on Garmin Connect, but on your watch, where you have to do it. Just look for "Add New"  or "Add +" at the end of the list on the Activity screen (typically, after pressing the GPS button).

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Thanks for advice. I know how to add new activity in watch. My question was about G. Connect App. Not about watch.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Sup4you

    Well, there is no need for it - if you add a new activity type on the watch, it will appear automatically in Garmin Connect, either in the respective category you used for the cloning, or in the category "other" if you created it from the scratch (not by cloning an existing activity)

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    I can't do it even edit all my sessions. There is no option to choose "Kitesurfing"  in activity list. I can't edit it and enter what i need. I can only choose "Other" as my activity.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Sup4you

    In Garmin Connect, when you change "Activity Type," scroll WAY DOWN to "Other". They're in alphabetical order - "Wind or Kite Surfing" is near the bottom, just above "Wingsuit Flying."

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Otto-Destruct

    No way bro! In my russian version of G.Connect there is NO Kitesurfing. I can not even switch language in the app! So maybe in English version Kitesurfing exist, but not on Russian! WTF!!! Who are the designers of the App? Show me their faces!!! I want to see the heroes of the day!!!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Sup4you
    Sup4you said:
    how me their faces!!! I want to see the heroes of the day!!!

    Show us yours first Smiley

    Sup4you said:
    I can not even switch language in the app!

    Is there any law in Russia forbidding it or what? I can change the language from Russian to English and back without any problems (in User Settings)

    Kitesurfing is translated as Виндсерфинг instead. Just use that, or switch to the English version if you can't stand it. Or write a local override replacing the word with the right one.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    Ok dude! But...i am doing both Kitesurfing and Windsurfing! Does anybody know that this is two DIFFERENT disciplines? If Garmin Connect app pretend to be most useful, convenient and user friendly app for their users it MUST be correct in translations or become a real user friendly. Out dispute can be easily solved if you as a responsible person can add this little improvement like a chance to add MY OWN type of activity, based on MY OWN sport preferences. Or just try to explane me how at the end of the year I can get real statistics for my Windsurfing sessions and for my Kitesurfing sessions if they marked "windsurfing" for both? Should I use pen and paper in 21st century to split data by hand? Wow! Greate!!!

    BTW! Where in App settings you hide language changes menu? I need help!

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Sup4you
    Sup4you said:
    Or just try to explane me how at the end of the year I can get real statistics for my Windsurfing sessions and for my Kitesurfing sessions if they marked "windsurfing" for both?

    Just tag them in the Activity name, and then use the search box to filter by the tag. Or use one of the otherwise unused categories for the Kitesurfing. Or use the Event Type for the tagging and filtering (see the filters under the Advanced button). The application cannot include all 8,000 existing sports.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to trux

    I did it in my Garmin Instinct watch. I made "Kite" activity in the watch and use it to record my sessions. But in the App they did not appears as "Kite". Never...