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Export/Import TCX - Only Running/Biking allowed

Former Member over 15 years ago

Although Garmin Connect allows sports to categorized with many different types; the import and export via Garmin Connect doesn't.

During import, if the .tcx has a sport attribute of anything different than "Other","Running" or "Biking" it gives an error.
On Export, independent of what category you have given to the activity, the .tcx downloaded will have an activity sport of either Running, Biking or Other (anything different than running/biking is changed to Other during the export).

0 philschaefer over 2 years ago

Apparently, this is still the state of things 13 years later... Now with the world filled with indoor virtual workout environments and people like me using the Garmin watches on all kinds of sports, is there any way to bring this run//bike/other limitation a litttle more up-to-date and provide ways to import and export data that can describe the actual activity taking place?

0 trux over 2 years ago in reply to philschaefer

You can try requesting it from Garmin at Share Ideas | Garmin, but I doubt anything would change. The TCX file is a very old deprecated file format, since many years replaced byt the FIT format (export as "Original"). Practically all 3rd parties connecting to Garmin, use the FIT protocol. So there is not a lot of hope Garmin would be willing to spend any resources on the long abandoned format.

0 seilogramp over 2 years ago in reply to philschaefer

philschaefer said:
Apparently, this is still the state of things 13 years later... Now with the world filled with indoor virtual workout environments and people like me using the Garmin watches on all kinds of sports

What exactly are you trying to do? Which watch do you have and which sport(s)? A lot has changed with Garmin since this thread was started, so maybe there is more to this issue you're having.