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gimporter/gexporter - import FIT/GPX courses from your Android phone

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This is the support thread of "gimporter" (Connect IQ app and widget) and the Android companion app "gexporter".

gexporter and gimporter bring GPX and FIT tracks and places from your Android phone onto your Garmin device: no cable, no upload to Garmin Connect. Free, open source, without ads and without tracking.

Features

  • Share a place, navigate there: share a place from Google Maps, Organic Maps, a chat message with coordinates or any other app to gexporter. The place arrives on the watch: press Start, choose navigation and off you go.
  • Tap a track, it's on your watch: choose a folder with your GPX/FIT files in gexporter (or share files to it), tap a track, then press Start on the watch to follow it as a course.
  • Or open gimporter on the watch and choose from the list of tracks on your phone.
  • See and delete gimporter's tracks and places on the watch from the phone.
  • GPX tracks are converted to FIT courses on the phone, with options for speed, 3D distance, course points and point reduction.

Notes

  • gexporter must be running on the phone.
  • On some devices (like the Edge 1030) you have to disable Wi-Fi on the device so it uses the phone connection.
  • The Garmin Connect app needs internet access on the phone, even though gimporter does not (a Garmin limitation).
  • Oregon, Rino, GPSMAP and eTrex devices receive the GPX track unchanged.

What's new in gimporter 7.4.0 / gexporter 20.3.0: https://harald.hoyer.xyz/gexporter-gimporter/

ConnectIQ App: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/de11adc4-fdbb-40b5-86ac-7f93b47ea5bb

ConnectIQ Widget: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fac50ef3-77b2-466c-9f4f-4dcb2feb49a3

Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.surfsite.gexporter

Source code and issues: https://github.com/gimportexportdevs

  • in reply to rockncrag

    What is producing the POI/waypoint?

    If you have internet access, you can use "sendpoints.us" to create a waypoint and load it using the sendpoints app or my app.

    apps.garmin.com/.../6b770e92-2cc6-437e-8de2-0efae208a455

  • in reply to dpawlyk

    I save gpx file from viewranger or oruxmaps and then send via Gimporter as it doesn't require internet which is not often available in the mountains etc.... I already use the app to send adhoc routes but need the poi/waypoint function too... Your app requires data connect so is pretty useless when you have none...

  • in reply to rockncrag

    I'm well-aware of the problem with needing a data connection. If it was easy to not use a data connection, I (and others) would already be doing it.

    The problem is that Garmin IQ only lets you download route files or open web pages.

    Since the location isn't a route, it would have to be provided as a web page.

    It wouldn't be too hard to update the GExporter android app to provide the location as a "web page". It would be easy to update the GImporter IQ app/widget to read the "web page".

  • in reply to dpawlyk

    I have NO idea what you mean by that or what that has to do with a poi/waypoint save as a GPX file from another program!!!

  • in reply to rockncrag

    Garmin doesn't let IQ apps/widgets do "everything". Garmin doesn't let apps/widgets download GPX (or FIT) files containing POIs or waypoints.

    Apps/widgets can only download route files and it's FIT files for some devices and GPX for others (your device can't download both file types: it's either one or the other).

    The GExporter android app actually converts GPX files to FIT (and vice versa) on the phone to match what format the device requires (this is a very cool feature).

    The only way for an IQ app/widget to get a location is to get it by opening a web page (one that returns something called "JSON").

    So, what the GExporter android would have to do is translate the GPX file into a JSON file and let you pick that.

    That's not too hard to do (I do it in a Windows program that sort of works like GExporter).

    This is also what the sendpoints.us website and the sendpoints IQ app does.

    (This detail is mostly going to be understandable by developers.)

  • in reply to dpawlyk

    Thank you for taking the time to explain as best you can... I do appreciate it....   I think I understand better.... In simple terms the companion app converts it to a format that can be sent to the device this format is a sort of web page.... 

    Again thank you 

  • in reply to rockncrag

    What you want is completely reasonable, obviously.

    It wouldn't be too hard for the GExport Android app to be modified to do it.

    GExporter could be modified to extract waypoints/locations from GPX/FIT files and write them to a file in JSON format.

    It could even use the same format as what the sendpoints app uses.

    The GImporter IQ app could include these files in the list it displays. If it used a particular extension (like *.loc), the app could know to create a location instead of trying to download a GPX/FIT course file.

    That's what I do with my Windows app and my IQ app.

    sites.google.com/.../grouteloader

  • in reply to dpawlyk

    But does your app etc require a data connection eg to be connect to the internet??? 

  • in reply to rockncrag

    No, the IQ apps (GRouteLoader and GExporter) don't require internet access.

    GExporter creates a webserver that Garmin Connect Mobile can access.

  • in reply to dpawlyk

    And it will transfer SINGLE pois created in other apps?? Plus the app description suggests it is more for cyclist  than walking etc.Is this the case? if so why?

    Also I noticed you have a PC app(not the gearth one) but could not find a download link...