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Recognizing duplicate activities from different devices

Garmin Connect should be able to recognize duplicate activities from two different devices. For example, when I bike, I record on a 965, and a 1030 Plus. If I save both activities on the devices, they both synch to Garmin Connect and give me faulty training metrics. Connect should be smart enough to figure this out. Strava can recognize when I have ridden with another rider. Why can't Garmin recognize when I have ridden with myself?

0 Dr Phil over 1 year ago

Strava will also show multiple activities when multiple devices are used to record at the same time. That said, Garmin could do better. The device set as Primary Tracker should be the only one used for computing training metrics, ignoring any others.

0 e7andy over 1 year ago

Which data should be used if you log with both? The data can be very different.

Why do you log and save on both devices? Just skip saving on one of them.

0 petergrasse over 1 year ago in reply to e7andy

I record on both devices because I can. During the ride, I can see two data screens quickly, and things happen that can screw up the data on a device. I hate losing the data from an epic ride to gremlins or fat fingers. Its easier to verify the data is good in Connect, and by then, its too late.

Connect should recognize based on start and stop times and gps track that the activity may be a duplicate, and hold processing until a user has selected which device's data to use in calculations.

0 e7andy over 1 year ago in reply to petergrasse

All processing and calculations are done on the device before it is uploaded to Garmin Connect. Garmin Connect is just a viewer of the data. When you see the data in Connect it is too late to select which device's data to use. What you do in Connect will not affect what is already calculated on the devices.

This scenario is a very special case which would require major changes in how the devices process data so I can't see that Garmin would spend any time and money implementing it. But send a request to Garmin: https://garmin.com/ideas

I sometimes double log since problems can occur and I often do tests of different functions, but I only save on one device. Stop on both. Save one. If everything was ok then just dicard the other. If you want to be extra careful you can sync the first and look in Garmin Connect. Is everything fine, then discard the other.

0 petergrasse over 1 year ago in reply to e7andy

Is Garmin Connect really just a viewer? In the Physio True up feature, data is sent back to devices. Health stats calculated in Connect based on data from all devices.

0 e7andy over 1 year ago in reply to petergrasse

The devices calculate the values and sync them to Garmin servers. After that Physio TrueUp will sync those already calculated values from Garmin servers to the devices. All those values will work without a connection to Garmin servers.