Concept2 Forum

Are there any plans with the Concept2 software to have syncing abilities with 3rd party apps such as MyFitnessPal or Garmin Connect?

This would be nice, since it doesn't look like we will be getting ANT+ FE-C or a IQ Connect app (that writes data) anytime soon.

Now that we have CSV export with Ergdata iOS, it should be simple to create a FIT file to pass to Garmin Connect.

Did some work on manually creating a .FIT file for import into Garmin Connect, but there's still some limiting factors:

The Concept2 ErgData iOS export to CSV does not include power or interval data. This limits the usefulness of the .FIT file we can make.

The timestamp in the CSV is only the number of seconds since the start of the first stroke. We would need the full date and time to create a .FIT file.

Now, The Concept2 Logbook itself has both the datestamp and interval data, but we would have to pull it manually and insert it into the program that creates the .FIT file for each separate activity (as it is not included in the CSV). And there's no way to get power data, as it doesn't appear to be collected by ErgData iOS.

In the end, we could do it (except power), but it would need manual input for every activity. Concept2 could do it much easier/faster from the Logbook.

On iOS ErgData app can update HealthKit and MyFitnessPal can pull from workouts from HealthKit.

Painsled allows you to upload a tcx file or csv file.

Livio Livius wrote:Painsled allows you to upload a tcx file or csv file.

We want download, not upload. And even then, Painsled is Android only, requires PM5 (because Bluetooth Smart), and doesn't sync to Logbook.

And even if we had a CSV from Painsled, it would still need the proper datestamp to make a .FIT file.

carlosr wrote:On iOS ErgData app can update HealthKit and MyFitnessPal can pull from workouts from HealthKit.

I have absolutely zero interest in going through HealthKit (or multiple apps) just to get to GarminConnect, but I would be interested to see if this crazy path yields proper interval/power/stoke data. Have you tried it?

KevinConcept2 wrote:

Livio Livius wrote:Painsled allows you to upload a tcx file or csv file.

We want download, not upload. And even then, Painsled is Android only, requires PM5 (because Bluetooth Smart), and doesn't sync to Logbook.

And even if we had a CSV from Painsled, it would still need the proper datestamp to make a .FIT file.

Painsled is also iOS/iPhone and correct it doesn't sync yet with Logbook. As you already can manually upload the tcx file from Painsled to Garmin Connect it should be possible to have a direct sync function. Also the csv file contains a datestamp.