Import Fitbit Data to Garmin

2552399 16 days ago

Can anybody PLEASE help me. I have tried calling and emailing Garmin support, and I have tried contacting Fitbit support. They're just not able to help me, but keep asking same questions back and forth or telling me to contact the other. I have tried everything, looked everywhere online for help on this issue but nothing works.

I have exported all my data from fitbit, and I got the files in correct format (CSV) but I keep getting error message when I upload to Garmin. I don't know what else to do, as I have tried everything and followed all instructions and tips I have found online. Maybe some of the advice worked 3 years ago, since this has been a problem for a while, but you would think that they would solved this issue by now. It seems like the issue has been solved for Android, but not iOS, and I have iOS. So anybody, please help? :)

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2552399 14 days ago in reply to trux +1

Yes, I have only tried files that supposedly are supported for import. Maybe I am choosing the wrong files from the fitbit export, which was a lot of folders. I tried many files at once, but also one at…

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0 trux 15 days ago

What exactly are you trying to import to Garmin Connect? The import is limited to activity files (one file per activity, not activity lists!), to weight data, and the daily activity data (Calories, activity minutes,...). As far as I know, on Garmin's side it still works as it used to. If you get a problem with a specific file, please post a sample of a few lines of the CSV or TCX file from Fitbit here.

0 trux 15 days ago

As for the activity TCX files, you can try adding the Author tag to the tcx file, or use the conventer at Home - Fitbit to Garmin Converter↷ as advised in the thread TCX import is failing - Garmin Connect Web - Mobile Apps & Web - Garmin Forums

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0 2552399 14 days ago in reply to trux

Yes, I have only tried files that supposedly are supported for import. Maybe I am choosing the wrong files from the fitbit export, which was a lot of folders. I tried many files at once, but also one at a time. I made sure to put the correct measurements/units etc as the file, but just to be sure I tried all the options. I focused on the CSV files, but I also tried to convert the JSON files to CSV to check if that made a difference.

For example, let's look at steps. I choose the CSV files from the "Physical Activity Google Data", and a few lines from that looked like this:

timestamp,steps
2022-09-01T04:29:00Z,6
2022-09-01T07:31:00Z,4
2022-09-01T08:57:00Z,4
2022-09-01T08:58:00Z,11

Then from the converted JSON to CSV file, it looked like this:

dateTime,"value"
2022-04-01 22:45:00,"0"
2022-04-01 22:47:00,"0"
2022-04-01 22:51:00,"0"
2022-04-01 22:55:00,"0"

Not sure about TCX files, I don't think I got that from the export but it might be in one of the folders.

0 trux 13 days ago in reply to 2552399

None of the examples you have shown is a FitBit CSV format for Daily Activity. The original format looks like this:

Activities
Date,Calories Burned,Steps,Distance,Floors,Minutes Sedentary,Minutes Lightly Active,Minutes Fairly Active,Minutes Very Active,Activity Calories
"2024-03-28","0","8425","7.5","0","0","0","0","0","0"

The first two lines are fixed, and there can be multiple lines with the actual data.

As I already mentioned, you can use the Fitbit to Garmin Converter - it will save you plenty of hassle and time