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

This is the support thread of "gimporter" and the android companion app "gexporter".

Imagine you are on the go and want to upload a course to your Garmin device to follow the track. As of now, this involves uploading the gpx file to the Garmin web site, somehow create a course from it and then select "Export to device" in the mobile app.

Here comes gimporter. Download your FIT and GPX courses with the "gimporter" ConnectIQ app from the "Download" folder of your Android device.

Notes:

Keep the Android app open, while downloading!
Oregon and Rino devices download the unmodified GPX track. No point reduction or speed recalculation is done yet
On some devices (like the Edge 1030) you have to disable WiFi while using the app

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: https://github.com/gimportexportdevs

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webvan over 7 years ago

Thanks, looking forward to the new version!

Backslashhh over 7 years ago

Thanks, looking forward to the new version!

Android app version 7

Backslashhh over 7 years ago

Ah yes, the gpx I used had no speed to forcing wasn't necessary.

Too bad about the start/end shifting, amazingly I have yet to find an easy solution for that. One that works is to cut and then paste with mygpsfiles.

How about editing the GPX track in Locus Map? With the new gexporter feature, that it can receive shared files, it should be quick and easy.

webvan over 7 years ago

Android app version 7

That was fast, got it and working, thanks !

NHvZ over 7 years ago

Should be fixed with V5.1

Tnx it works fine now.

hotdogpartysausage over 7 years ago

Hi I've just updated to V5 on my E1000. The courses certainly load quicker. Good work. The course point limit on the E1000 appears to be somewhere in the region of 35922

I don't know if it was intentional, but course names are now truncated to 15 Characters, where the E1000 can have considerably more, 49 in fact. Although the number of characters displayed varies depending on the screen being viewed.

20 on the course list screen
29 on the selected course menu screen
26 on the selected course settings screen
49 on the course name editor

Fixed with V5.2 (needs Android app version 5.1)

Hi Thanks for restoring the long file names.

A couple of things to report on the E1000 with V5.2

1. The start button no longer loads the track list, but the menu button works fine.
2. The text on the track list seems to be misaligned vertically compared to the buttons. Hopefully it's noticeable in the screen capture below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxFGncAUrXvRX1JTR3NEWHY5blE/view?usp=drivesdk

Thanks HD

Backslashhh over 7 years ago

Hi Thanks for restoring the long file names.

A couple of things to report on the E1000 with V5.2

1. The start button no longer loads the track list, but the menu button works fine.

But you can touch it now to start :-)

2. The text on the track list seems to be misaligned vertically compared to the buttons. Hopefully it's noticeable in the screen capture below

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxFGncAUrXvRX1JTR3NEWHY5blE/view?usp=drivesdk

Thanks HD

This is nothing I can fix. It's the standard Garmin ConnectIQ Menu, which is to blame.
You can file a bug at https://forums.garmin.com/forumdisplay.php?623-Connect-IQ-Bug-Reports for this.

hotdogpartysausage over 7 years ago

Hi Thanks for the feedback.

Yep the menu icon is fine for loading the tracklist. When I saw the Press Start/Menu prompt I thought either would work so I pressed the start button, which worked on the previous version. When that didn't work I tried the menu icon which worked fine. I guess this is something you've implemented to support different devices.

I'll raise a bug request for the menu issue and let you know of the outcome.

Keep up the good work. HD

Backslashhh over 7 years ago

Hi Thanks for the feedback.

Yep the menu icon is fine for loading the tracklist. When I saw the Press Start/Menu prompt I thought either would work so I pressed the start button, which worked on the previous version. When that didn't work I tried the menu icon which worked fine. I guess this is something you've implemented to support different devices.

I'll raise a bug request for the menu issue and let you know of the outcome.

Keep up the good work. HD

I don't see the strange menu behavior on my edge 1000. Does the filename begin with some invisible/unprintable characters?

Backslashhh over 7 years ago

Widget was just approved in the connectiq store. Might take some hours to appear.