Swim Data in Activity.Info

Hi,

Is it possible to get swim information from Activity.Info, in particular distance?

On the Vivoactive, the native Swim App asks for Pool Size (Indoor) and then by counting lengths, can determine total distance. However I am getting a distance of zero, which makes sense if it's treated like a run or cycle. So for it to be possible, it would need to set/know the pool size which also can't be done.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Chris

Former Member over 10 years ago

The swimming info should work for data fields that are running in the native swimming app.

The info will not work in other contexts (Applications) because it is not possible to enable the native swim processing in an activity started by an Application.

chrishares over 10 years ago

Thanks Brian, that's what I had confirmed.

Do you know if adding the native swimming data to the Activity.Info is on the Roadmap?

Thanks
Chris

Former Member over 10 years ago

Do you mean adding the ability to use the swim processing (lap detection) for activities in ConnectIQ apps, or adding additional swimming metrics to Activity.Info?

I don't really know anything about plans for either of those things.

chrishares over 10 years ago

Hi Brian,

It was for either, but higher priority for the swimming metrics (like distance and lengths completed). I understand you would need to (somehow) set the pool length.

Thanks
Chris

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

We have this on our longer-term road map for investigation. It's unlikely these features will be added soon, but I'm sure they'll be available at some point in a future Connect IQ release.

Efflon over 10 years ago

I this the reason why my app does not record any swimming distance when recording a pool swimming activity (.FIT). My belief where that the distance calculations would be just the same as for e.g. running.

Former Member over 10 years ago

This is my experience as well. Now, if I will have to develop my own swim distance recognition algorithm, how would I push the data to the .FIT file?
Kind of pointless to have a activity recording type where nothing is recorded..

I'm plan to write swim app for 235(there is no native swim app) too.It will analysis accelemeter data to calculate strokes and laps.I'll appreciate it if someone send some .FIT file of swim to me. email:[email protected]

Former Member over 8 years ago

The team has determined this isn't a priority at this time and has closed this ticket.