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over 2 years ago

WERETECH-8595

Activity name for SPORT_SWIMMING gets overwritten with 'Swimming'

For every other activity, the name defined in ActivityRecording.createSession({}) is what shows in Garmin Connect, but when using SPORT_SWIMMING, it just shows 'Swimming', this is a shame because SPORT_SWIMMING also seems to be the only sport that can be used without having steps counted and added to the days step counter. Ideally, there would be a way to turn step counting off for any sport, in the very least SPORT_GENERIC should be this way so that it can be more customized.

tjthejuggler
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  • over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    The whole point of the app I'm making is to count juggling throws which I am doing with the accelerometers so putting the watch in my pocket won't work. If I turn off activity tracking then I won't be able to keep a record of how much I/the user juggle each day, and every time the app is used, the user will need to go change the watch settings before and after. The issue is that there doesn't seem to be any option for an activity that doesn't record steps other than swimming(and possibly biking). Certainly this is just an oversight, and hopefully will be fixed soon, or maybe there is an option that I just have not found yet. Hopefully someone from Garmin will see this thread and resolve the issue. For now I am just going with the option to not use my watch for swimming, and so I will know that for me the activity labelled 'swimming' is actually juggling. The downside to this is that it is too tacky a solution for me to contribute the app to the community by putting it in the app store.

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  • over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    The whole point of the app I'm making is to count juggling throws which I am doing with the accelerometers so putting the watch in my pocket won't work. If I turn off activity tracking then I won't be able to keep a record of how much I/the user juggle each day, and every time the app is used, the user will need to go change the watch settings before and after. The issue is that there doesn't seem to be any option for an activity that doesn't record steps other than swimming(and possibly biking). Certainly this is just an oversight, and hopefully will be fixed soon, or maybe there is an option that I just have not found yet. Hopefully someone from Garmin will see this thread and resolve the issue. For now I am just going with the option to not use my watch for swimming, and so I will know that for me the activity labelled 'swimming' is actually juggling. The downside to this is that it is too tacky a solution for me to contribute the app to the community by putting it in the app store.

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