I've got a lot of data in Apple's Health ecosystem. I like it. GC claims to sync to it, or at least offers the option to allow it. But neither Activity.app nor Health.app ever show the activities in them. I see a generic "Workout" entry, so there is some communication going on, but "Walking and Running Distance" doesn't update and Activity.app is empty.
This issue is so pathetic at this point. It's totally hit'n miss if my connect syncs something to health - and it's been like that for a year+ - ever since they started saying they would support health.
And later editions have completely stopped syncing data that counts in apple's activity tracker (heartrate, Calories and such).
Being a garmin user for two years now I can only say I have certainly bought my last garmin device.
I have a clear strategy to move to a different platform where the software actually works as advertised. SO disapointed with garmin's software :-(
I'd be interested in your strategy if you're willing to share. I'm having trouble identifying alternatives with comparable features.
I have a clear strategy to move to a different platform where the software actually works as advertised. SO disapointed with garmin's software :-(
I'd imagine Apple wearable products work well with Apple Health. Pity about their battery life, and fitness for purpose for robust athletic endeavours in terms of toughness, water resistance, built-in GPS and heart rate reading accuracy, etc.
Misfit and even the failed Jawbone products are working like charm too. At this point I am wondering whether Garmin simply doesn't care or they have such a broken interface that it is impossible to fix.
Misfit and even the failed Jawbone products are working like charm too. At this point I am wondering whether Garmin simply doesn't care or they have such a broken interface that it is impossible to fix.
It's annoying that Apple Health sync is completely broken in Garmin Connect.
It's even more annoying that Garmin doesn't even care enough to talk about this problem.
My "workaround" is to return the otherwise great Fenix 5 and tell the retailer that the software is broken and get something a lot cheaper that works as intended instead. Garmin will never see another € from me.
I'd be interested in your strategy if you're willing to share. I'm having trouble identifying alternatives with comparable features.
Sorry about the late reply. I sold my Vivosmart HR and purchased an Apple Watch 2 a while ago - very happy with that device!
Luckily i'm into cycling so i'm not missing garmins only real "killerfeatures" - running metrics. So my edge 520 cycling computer will be replaced with a Wahoo Bolt.
Wahoo really really takes their software serious. From a distant I've been SO impressed with the bundle of features, bug fixes and USER REQEUSTED!! Changes they have delivered in the one year their ELEMNT has been available. I have really envied my friend with a ELEMNT the last year, and with the new BOLT available im jumping ship.
My only remaining garmin device is the scale which btw. Became very buggy with the latest 3.0 update.
But i cant afford to change that just yet.
I just bought a new Garmin Watch - Fenix 5s and related to GC writing to iHealth:
- all categories except Body Fat Percentage and Body Mass Index seems to be written correctly
Does anyone managed to make this two categories work?
You'll see in a couple of hours that Garmin Connects Apple Health is completely broken:
Distance, Rest Energy, Activity Energy & Step Count are written to Apple Health for the current day but will be deleted from Apple Health by Garmin Connect the day after - just pay close attention to the daily entries in Apple Health.
Any news on GC working with Apple Health? I don't see it in the Sources list. I've been Running the RunGap app from time to time to make sure everything syncs but it's a PITA to have to always launch my watch, and GC, and then run RunGap to sync across everything.
With my old Forerunner 620, since it wasn't a fitness tracker, I used Strava as a go-between to Apple Health. GCM would write the workout to Strava, then Strava wrote it to Health, and it all looked good.
With my new 935, I'm trying to get the Garmin -> Health to work directly, and it seems to have some weird bugs with how it writes Workout and Active Energy data. Like for instance, I went for an outdoor row this morning that GCM says was 436 calories. In the Health app, if I look at the Connect source then the data from it, it shows that workout for today, with the 436 calories. However, if I look at active energy, it shows those 436 calories as counting for *yesterday*. (When I went for a run yesterday, it recorded those calories for the day before, but now they don't even show up.)
So yeah, the way it writes calories is seriously screwed up.
Edit: can anyone recommend another app that will take data from GCM and push it to Health? Strava only really works for runs, and comes up with its own calorie numbers. And I tried RunGap, but for some reason it wouldn't push any data to Health newer than January.
