VivoFit & Garmin Connect - New Features

I would like to see it be able to partner with other data services such as runkeeper and My Fitness Pal something that I can enter foods into and then I can check if my caloric intake is jiving with my caloric output.

I'd like the ability to merge activities based on time. If my vivofit records and activity, and I'm also wearing my gps watch, or tracking gps via a phone app, chose both activities and merge to collect steps, heart rate, and map all in one activity, instead of having to pick between two different activties.

I agree on the activity issue. Right now if I wear my GPS and vivofit the activity effort is counted twice. That throws off my daily totals. I would suggest that specifically recorded activities overwrite passively recorded information such as steps. I could wear only one at a time, but that loses stats such as cool down times, walking to the car etc. I can't even edit the step information to compensate.

I'd also like to identify increased activity times recorded by vivofit as formal activities without having the HR monitor. For example, scheduled walks, pickup games, etc. It would be best to be able to mark activity time on the device or afterwards on connect ala the segments interface.

I like the device... waiting for the software to catch up.

I'm thinking positive on the future of including the ability to sync with My Fitness Pal or Endomondo. Until then, I wish I could simply go into the Vivofit activities and manually enter something along the lines of 60 minutes of road biking avg 17 mph. I know it's totally manual and all but it would be better than nothing at this point.

A small, fun suggestion:

The Fitbit Force vibrates and displays a flashing "10,000" on the screen to celebrate when you reached the Fitbit goal of 10,000 steps each day. It was a small but motivating reward for reaching the goal. It would be nice if the Vivofit did something like this when the auto-goal was reached daily.

It would be nice to have the Vivofit flash "goal" several times and maybe have the red bar segments do a flashing dance sequence too. Despite the limits of the Vivofit display, flashing "GOAL" several time would still be possible using a nine (9) for the letter "g" etc.

I agree with the comments about merging activity and step data, I don't have a Vivofit yet but I use the Jawbone UP and my Garmin FR and I am able to merge the data automatically in the UP app, ie my Garmin activity shows in the app and the UP step data shows with the activity, I think it just uses the start time and duration to synchronise the two. Garmin Connect should definitely be able to do this with multiple Garmin devices. I'm excited about having two Garmin products but would be really disappointed if the data was less useful than what I have now.

I agree that I would like to see it have a means to motivate water consumption like link data from waterlogged app, nutrition with myfitnesspal or lose it apps, and weight and blood pressure info from Withings devices. I would also like to know that I could keep it on when I am running with my Garmin watch and that it would be able to take the over all data and edit out a vivofit data when it detects duplicate data. I'm assuming this last request is the most difficult and would prefer the other data integration first.

Other thing I would like to know is the training calendar going to move over to the new Garmin Connect website. I would like to plan my workouts and have it download to my eCalendar.

I concur with the issue of combining data from a Vivofit and a GPS tracking watch. Vivofit's are designed to never be taken off, so runs will be double counted.

While the obvious solution is to have Garmin Connect be able to suppress the steps information when receiving other information, a different approach would be to update the software on the Vivofit to pause the steps counting. Then, when it's time for the training run, just click the button until Pause appears. When the run is over, click the button again.

Changing the web site would require that the Vivofit supply steps data on a minute by minute level. I suspect that the data is only agreggated on an hourly basis, whcih means the web site would have to toss out all step data for any hour that a running gps watch was used. If you run a mile, that's ten minutes of extra steps. But to delete those ten minutes, there's another fifty gone, too. (Worse if the run crosses an hour boundary.)

As such, I think a Pause function on the Vivofit would be more useful.

This is exactly what I need as well; integration to Runkeeper and My Fitness Pal. I knew Garmin didn't have this when I purchased my Vivofit and it almost kept me from purchasing it. I'm trusting that Garmin will correct this quickly or I will likely have to go back to my Fitbit. I'd rather charge once a week and be integrated with the apps I use versus not.

I would like the Vivofit to be able to pair to Garmin Footpods (or any ANT+ Foodpod for that matter) and have that info displayed on Garmin Connect. That will help with step count accuracy as well as distance covered.

Also, the calories calculated on the Garmin Connect website are faulty. I confirmed via bmrcalculator.org that what Garmin calls BMR is actually BMR + assumption of low activity/office worker sedentary "staying alive" calories.

That was fine to start with... but when I changed my weight by over 5lbs several days ago I've noticed in the Garmin Dashboard that my BMR has not reduced a single calorie. This indicates a bug... My Garmin "BMR" should be over 30 calories lower now...