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Gear tracking doesn't include Commuting as a cycling type

jgforrest

Ideally I'd like to be able to identify gear based on a sensor ID where possible (e.g. by Di2), but until then I want to use the new features by assigning a bike to a cycling type.

Unfortunately while my edge 1050 has Commuting as an activity type, and so does my Epix (albeit called Bike Commute not Commuting), GCM doesn't. It would be helpful to be able to track miles on my road bikes separately from my commuter.

It would also be good to have consistent mapping across devices, its a bit messy at the moment (see below for cycling activity comparison)

GCM Edge 1050 Epix
Commuting Bike Commute
 BMX BMX
 Cyclocross Cyclocross Cyclocross
 Downhill Mountain Biking Downhill MTB
 eBiking ebike ebike
 eMountain Biking emountain eMTB
 eEnduro Mountain Biking E-Enduro MTB
 Enduro Mountain Biking Enduro MTB
 Gravel Cycling Gravel Gravel Bike
 Handcycling
 Indoor Cycling Indoor
 Indoor Handcycling
 Mountain Biking Mountain MTB
 Recumbent Cycling
 Road Cycling Road Road Bike
 Track Cycling
 Virtual Cycling
Triathlon
Bike Tour

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    Found a way round this by setting my Commuting profile as "Commuting" and Road Cycling as "Road", they map to "Cycling" and "Road Cycling" in GCM so can assign my bikes to those activities. Not perfect but OK

  • 0 in reply to jgforrest

    Commuting isn’t handled consistently on Garmin Connect. Or to say it another way: They broke it Garmin style, due to lack of Communication. 

    If you record „Commuting“ on the Edge, Connect will not recognize it as commuting but Strava does. In Connect, you have to change the event type to commuting by hand. I dont know if its also the case with „Bike Commute“ on the watches.

    In general its not good the activity types on devices and the back end dont line up. There is someone still responsible for this and i think Garmin has to overthink the employment status of this person.

  • 0 in reply to BeneGi
    BeneGi said:
    I dont know if its also the case with „Bike Commute“ on the watches.

    On my Instinct 3, Bike Commute works as expected, and saves with the correct activity type in Connect. Don't you have, by hazard, an Edge model older than the Bike Commute activity type? It was in 2022 that the subcategory was added to the SDK.

  • 0 in reply to trux

    I don’t know if it’s because Instinct 3 is supported for gear tracking but on my Epix Gen2 recording an activity as bike commute gets saved as cycling. I had a look at the Garmin courses API and Bike Commute isn’t a supported activity. The API list matches what’s seen in GCM. Not saying you’re wrong, just that maybe it’s a legacy API thing. 

  • 0 in reply to trux
    trux said:
    On my Instinct 3, Bike Commute works as expected, and saves with the correct activity type in Connect.

    I apologize, I was probably not yet properly awake. In fact it only saves with the expected title, but the type of the activity is just Cycling, just as others reported. 

    Respectively, the file saves OK, with the right "commuting" sub_sport ID (48), but current Connect simply does not support this sub sport (yet)

  • 0 in reply to trux

    very interesting. Strava must be using the sub sport ID to class it as a commute. I haven’t seen that in the API (I meant activities API not courses APi in my previous post).