m463
8 hours ago
Why can't we just connect a garmin watch (or edge or gps) to our ai machine, have it extract all the data with MTP or garmin format, and keep it local. Then ask questions.
Honestly I've been wondering if in the near future I can basically have a big machine and some sort of "ingest" program.
Then keep connect my devices to it, where it will backup all the data, and mine the backups for information I want.
Mine my iphone backups for text messages or contacts
mine all my devices for photos or videos
mine my watch or bike computer or gps or whatever else for where I've been and how I've exercised.
instead, everyone wants your data and imposes themselves in the middle.
zknill
2 hours ago
GPS traces recorded on a watch can be pretty noisy. If you stand in the same spot for a while, you're not going to get the exact GPS position recorded for the entire time you're there. The same happens when you move, it's not a smooth trace.
Strava (and I assume to some extent Garmin) apply some smoothing to these raw GPX traces to try and improve the path, or remove some of the noise.
You'd be missing out on this post-processing by taking the data raw. Ofc you can implement something similar yourself, but I wanted to point out that these platforms are doing a little bit more than just displaying the GPX trace.
cgsmith
5 hours ago
This is similar to what I did. Just download the gpx and analyze that. Skips the Garmin API.
exabrial
6 hours ago
doesn’t Garmin support completely local synchronization with their devices still?
m463
5 hours ago
they do - and this is why I buy their stuff.
but a lot of these folks are uploading everything to garmin connect and letting it have your data and do the work.