Recording Boulder

Hi all,

I am about to write my first app for Garmin watches. It is to record my boulder sessions.
I know there are already apps doing this but as far as I know they all require me to start and stop every single boulder and need to set grades. Way to much to push and press during an activity. My goal is that the app recognises when I am in a boulder and when I finished it. The app is mainly to count boulders and their height and may be a few more things. I nearly finished the basic tasks: I see when I am bouldering and when I am resting. I count the boulder and see their hight. I have a little chart, displaying them during the session.

All my questions are related to the following session configuration:
_activityRecording = ActivityRecording.createSession({
:sport=>Activity.SPORT_FLOOR_CLIMBING,
:subSport=>Activity.SUB_SPORT_BOULDERING,
:name=>"Bouldering"
});
a) Start / Stop Boulder
When I use this configuration, whenever I start the app, it immidiatly starts counting boulder and because I don't plan to use buttons the boulder stops when I stop the app. How can I programmatically start and stop boulder during a running session?
b) Hight of a boulder
When starting an activity, I see the altitude. But when starting at an altitude of lets say 400m then a boulder hight of 2 to 3 meters is not realy visible in the default views of CIQ web portal. In case of a) and I can manage every single boulder, is there a way of setting my own properties for this?
c) Custom FitContributions
When I work with the session settings from above, custom fitcontribution fields aren't displayed in CIQ web portal. But when I use :sport=>ActivityRecording.SPORT_GENERIC for session settings, they are perfectly shown.

Any help is appreciated
Thanks in advance

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0 1173236 over 1 year ago in reply to FlowState

Ok, thanks for the update.

In this case I will postpone my app. Thanks for all participating in this conversation.

0 jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to 1173236

I started with the record sample from the 6.4.1 SDK, and added onBack logic to do an addLap.

Then set the sport to rock climbing, leaving the sub sport empty.

And in Garmin Connect I see laps on the map, as well as in the summary:

Adding bouldering as a subsport, I see the laps on the map, but not in the summary

So the data is in the fit file, just not shown for bouldering

So if you leave off the subsport, you should be close to what you want

Here's the two variations:

        //_session = ActivityRecording.createSession({:name=>"rocks", :sport=>Activity.SPORT_ROCK_CLIMBING});
        _session = ActivityRecording.createSession({:name=>"boulder", 
            :sport=>Activity.SPORT_ROCK_CLIMBING,
            :subSport=>Activity.SUB_SPORT_BOULDERING
            });

So your issue is what's shown in GC and not what's recorded on the watch

0 1173236 over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

You are right and I appreciate your time and effort. The only thing wich is annoying is how the activity looks like in the Garmin app on my android.

0 jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to 1173236

If I look at the "Phoenix rocks" activity on my Android phone, I see the laps summary data I posted from the GC website.

0 1173236 over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

I can see this in my app too. Also my custom fileds are visible. And in the phone app I have it too. The last thing I am not happy with is how the activity is shown as you can see in my last post. 'Kilometer' and 'Geschwindigkeit' (Speed) are nonsense. You think I should ignore it?