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EXPORT CSV link no longer working within Activities Page?
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I sync my (non-bluetooth) garmin once a week or so, and then I export all the data from my rides into an additional spreadsheet (so I can better manipulate/graph/explore the data). However, the EXPORT CSV button appears to no longer be working from the main Activities Page? Is this a bug that is getting fixed?? I really need to be able to export my own friggin data.
@ouzel: You don't get to decide what goes into the content of the CSV file, even though Garmin Connect provides the option/feature of exporting what it will to an output file of that format. For the data/information you're after, you should be exporting the activity to a TCX file, and then (you're on your own in) extracting the data from the output and creating a CSV file from it, if you want a customised CSV file to suit your individual requirements.
I don't want anything customised really, I just want everything (i.e. all data fields in a recorded activity) exported as a CSV. I can then work with the comprehensive CSV file to extract and process what I want. I don't think that this is a big ask. The Wahoo Fitness App manages it pretty effortlessly, for example.
However, as suggested in the below, one can export the *.fit file from Garmin, and plug it into the Golden Cheetah software. The latter looks pretty comprehensive, and can export all the activity as CSV fields on the 1 s level. So I can work with that until (if ?) Garmin ever implements a full CSV export :-)
FIT files from activity files (from running, cycling) can be displayed very nicely by GoldenCheetah, it's primary focus is for cycling, but it handles runs and swims and other activities very well too. It runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Just one caveat: if you use a HRM-Swim or Tri for swimming, the heartrate data that was downloaded from the HRM, will be in the FIT file, but GoldenCheetah can't display it (it's possible though, but requires programming). There are other programs: FirstBeat athlete was discontinued, but perhaps FirstBeat Individual (Windows only) is an option. Those are the offline solutions, there are more options online, Strava and other sites can import FIT files. For displaying the monitor files there is no software that I know of, I had to write my own.
