What limits apply to recording long sessions ?

My app records Position data every second.

A client just asked me if the app will run continuously for multi-day events.

So far I haven't been able to find anything describing what limits apply to Session recordings, how an app can check to see if those limits are being approached, and what happens when those limits are reached.

Can someone shed some light on this ?

Thanks

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

The limit is really based on available space on the device, which could be large or small, even for the same model. There is no way to check with CIQ. On some devices it "may" delete old fit files is space is short, but I've never tried that. If the user is set for smart recording (the default on devices), the position isn't actually recorded every second.

When you are talking about multi-day events with GPS, the battery will probably be the first issue

0 Jeff over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks Jim.

I looked into the battery issue before looking at the recording limit question. My device, a FR 245 Music, can have the app running and plug the device in for charging, so periodic charging can keep the app running indefinitely. The app needs GPS data once a second to do it's calculations so the users are instructed to select 1S recording rather than smart recording. If there's a way to select 1S GPS samples and separately specify smart recording, that would be interesting but I haven't seen that kind of option in device settings.

Thanks

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to Jeff

When you are plugged in you won't get hear rate. Also, GPS is always every second with Smart Recording, just not written to the fit file as often.

0 Jeff over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Ahhh... GPS sample time vs Smart Recording is good to know.

Heart rate isn't an issue in this situation.

Thansk

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to Jeff

If you are worried about running out of storage, you want to use Smart Recording. Your app will run the same.

FitContib will impact Smart Recording though.

0 Jeff over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

That's a real help. I changed my recommendation to users based on that.

I don't use FitContrib so there's no issue there.

Thanks again