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Limitations of Garmin Edge Strava integration

Jonas H
over 1 year ago

As a new owner of an Edge 840, I have been quite disappointed with the limits on Strava integration.

  • Only 100 segments synced. I could maybe have excused that 15 years ago, but there's just no excuse for that sort of limitation with devices as powerful as they are now. I have 100 segments starred just within 10 km of my home alone. What sort of comically low limitation is that. Push that to 5000 and be done with it. This essentially makes Strava segments feature worthless to me.
  • Only new routes get synced. Why? Just give me all my routes.
  • Route updates don't get synced? Would any reasonable person not expect that to happen when I press the "Sync" button? If a route has been updated since last sync, update it, obviously.

None of this should be complex - competitors get all of these right. Is there any hope any of this will improve?

At least syncing to Strava seems to work as expected, so that's nice I guess.

  • 0 over 1 year ago

    When you star a route on strava, it will be synced to garmin

  • 0 over 1 year ago
    Jonas H said:
    Route updates don't get synced? Would any reasonable person not expect that to happen when I press the "Sync" button? If a route has been updated since last sync, update it, obviously.

    How is garmin supposed to know, if a route was updated since last sync?
    besides, if I'm not mistaken, it is strava, who does the Garmin API call. Not otherwise. 
    So you should complain to strava support...but yeah, strava will do nothing, despite your subscription:)

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Artem

    By watching the routes for changes (comparing the local route with the updated_at field of the route and updating if the route has been updated). Again, competitors manage all of this flawlessly. None of this is a Strava issue, but rather Garmin-specific deficiencies.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Jonas H

    as said before, Garmin pulls nothing from strava, it only allows strava to send routes to garmin. 
    It's not an issue, but ONLY STRAVA can do here something.
    cause only strava can push changed route to garmin, only strava can know, taht a route was changed, not the other way around. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Artem

    What are you basing this on because that's not how the Strava API works. And again, other manufacturers manage this just fine, so how could it be a Strava issue?

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Jonas H

    All the documentation is online, RTFM!

  • 0 11 months ago

    I'm with you. The segment limitation is total garbage. 

  • 0 9 months ago in reply to Artem

    I have developed applications for the Strava API. Have you?

  • 0 9 months ago

    This Strava segments limit has been raised in many other threads.  According to most posters there, this is a limitation imposed by Strava, not Garmin.

    You don't need to sync manually anymore and this is now much quicker than before. The best way to sync an update is to delete it on the device first. I guess this is a design decision by Garmin to limit data and battery use.  Incidentially, Komoot works the same way: if you've installed the Komoot app on your device the syncing is entirely under Komoot's control so they've apparently made the same design decision.