Remove GPS recordings manually?

Why are you recording GPS while indoors is my first question.

This sounds like a self-inflicted problem.

If you go plan to go indoors while recording, pause your activity first and resume once you are outside again

No idea on how your fix the tracks, but prevention is better than cure.

I came back to the Garmin Tempe for ambient temperature recording. Tempe needs GPS on to be accurate. It is strange, but empirically verified by me personally. I accually do not need the GPS track at all, since I am using a foot pot anyway. And I am considering doing data analysis not in Garmin Connect, but with Max Candocia s .fit to .csv tool, where all data is available.

In the .fit file, is it possible to remove the GPS track, which is inaccurate, and get accurate distance measurement only from the foot pod by manually calculating it from purely foot pod data?

Peter Gamma 04 said:

Tempe needs GPS on to be accurate

In my experience Tempe records indoor activities with GPS off just fine. However as to accuracy, I have three of them and they are all a bit off (max. deviation 1.5 degrees C). 

Have you tried setting the foot pod to 'distance always' and 'speed always' to override the GPS as source of this data? 

No I did not, brilliant idea. Is this option watch specific or works with all watches? I made tests with the Tempe indoors. With GPS off, I had big fluctuations of the temperature, and barometric pressure. With GPS on, temperature was stable and reasonable. According to info in the forum here, GPS has to be on for the Tempe to be accurate .

I've had no issues with the Tempe recording with GPS off, both with my Fenix 6X Pro and with my Edge 830 with a ConnectIQ field

Peter Gamma 04 said:

According to info in the forum here, GPS has to be on for the Tempe to be accurate

In another thread you claimed that tempe needs calibrated altimeter to work properly, which is obviously absurd. Now you claim it's GPS?

Peter Gamma 04 said:

According to info in the forum here, GPS has to be on for the Tempe to be accurate

Well... that is incorrect.  Almost every day I record multiple Indoor Biking activities without GPS and with Tempe sensor.  Watches used were fenix 6xPro, epix (Gen 2), and tactix 7.  In all cases the recorded temperatures were accurate with no "big fluctuations."

HTH

Peter Gamma 04 said:

Who removed it?

Nobody removed it. The info is still there. I can see it.

Peter Gamma 04 said:

These where precious information, which can be verified and reproduced.

You seem to be the only one, who can reproduce it, although even you cannot decide if it's the altimeter or gps that is required for the tempe to work.

On of my Tempes is used for 24/7 outdoor temperature recording on an old Android tablet that has no baro sensor and no GPS. No accuracy issues at all.

A Tempe is just a simple temperature sensor with ANT+ wireless connectivity. It only sends data, it cannot be calibrated and does not depend on anything, except for a working battery.

If a Garmin watch does not receive data from a Tempe for a couple of minutes, it defaults to the internal temperature sensor, and back to the Tempe once it receives that again. This leads to large fluctuations. As with all BLE and ANT+ sensors, they are tiny transmitters using extremely low power and reception of their signal is attenuated by increasing distance or even thick layers of damp clothing.

Tempes can break like any device, if you drop one or moisture gets in (it is waterproof but the seal is not super great) then it may get damaged. If it is wet inside leave the the battery cover off and let it dry out for two weeks.

Replace the battery, keep the sensor dry and in range of the watch and it will be fine, unless it was broken already, then buy a new one quickly because they seem to be going out of fashion.