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Import Fitbit data

Former Member over 7 years ago

I'm a huge fitbit charge and now charge 2 user since 2014. Considering the Fenix 5x but wanted to see the dashboard for data. The Fitbit dashboard is one of the best, so wanted to see how connect compared.

I do not have the Fenix yet so I exported one month of fitbit data in CSV format and selected the correct setting on import but it fails to import. Just says error occurred try again later.

Any tips on importing data and or anyway of seeing dummy data to get an idea of what the dashboard looks like.
TIA
harry

0 Simbilis over 7 years ago

I'm a former Charge and Zip user with two years of accumulated data. I had exactly the problem you did, and had an incredibly frustrating interaction with Garmin support trying to get it fixed.

I found a message (https://forums.garmin.com/forum/into...63#post1231363) from Pickle_64, who had discovered that editing the Fitbit CSV exports and rounding all values to no more than 2 decimal places resulted in files that Garmin Connect will accept.

If you have as much data as I did, and don't mind using a 3rd party export site for your Fitbit data (http://fitbit-export.azurewebsites.net/) and a crappy Python script from me (https://likhite.net/FitbitToGarmin.py), then the linked script will rewrite the fitbit-export site's data into something Garmin Connect will (probably) accept. I did 1 year at a time, so as not to tempt fate.

Good luck!

Sim

Edit: You can see my step data as imported - everything prior to 9/5/2017 - at https://connect.garmin.com/modern/profile/Simbilis

0 Pavlis over 4 years ago in reply to Simbilis

Hello,

please, could you reupload the file FitbitToGarmin.py again?

Thank you very much!