Garmin Connect to Strava auto-uploader

You probably want to use CopyMySports.com instead.

This Python-based tool uploads all rides from a Garmin Sync account to Strava, preserving all data except temperature (including speed, elevation, heartrate, cadence, power)

Setup

First copy config.py.sample to config.py and fill out the values.

Then run the following commands routinely:

python -m garminsyncier grab
python -m garminsyncier mail

The first grab command should be run maybe every 10 minutes or so, to avoid annoying the Garmin Connect API.

The second mail command can be run more often, maybe every 1 minute. It checks a directory for no files, and exits if none are found.

How it works

The grab command downloads any new rides from Garmin Connect as a .tcx file. These are placed in config.download_dir.

A ride is considered "new" if there is no file named ${ride_id}.gpx or ${ride_id}.tcx in either the download_dir or sent_dir

The mail command takes any .tcx or .gpx file in download_dir, and mails them to upload@strava.com (or any other address, really)

As long as config.your_email matches your Strava account address, the ride will appear like any other.

I ran the grab command every 10 minutes (avoid annoying Garmin's API), and the mail command every 1 minute (it's very quick

Note that Garmin Connect tcx export does not include the temperature data (which Strava may support in a <gpxtpx:atemp> tag on each track point). The GPX format does include this data, but excludes power. You can change format trivially in garminconnect.py (should really be a config option)

Why?

I was attempting to cycle from Adelaide to Perth, and wanted to upload the rides each day onto Strava...

Leaving things quite late, I tried the now-defunct GarminSync a few days before I left, but didn't trust it (mostly I didn't know how long it takes to spot new rides, and there was no logging when it last tried and so on)

..so I wrote my own, simple and robust version if it in an evening.

I ran it on a Rackspace "cloud server" VM, with the code, the logs, the download_dir and sent_dir all located in Dropbox.

The code worked perfectly - I could check if it had uploaded the ride using the Dropbox iOS application, comment on the ride with the Strava application, and share the ride with family and friends on Facebook. All in the middle of rural Australia. Hurray for technology.

(Oh, I made it as far as Ceduna after 4-and-a-bit days, before deciding to head back)

Does it still work?

Probably.

It worked as of 2013-07-20, running on Python 2.6. It does not require the now-dead Strava API v1 or v2 (nor the private v3)

The code itself is quite simple. The only parts likely to break are:

• Garmin Connect's API. They are barely documented, and many of the endpoints have multiple versions, all of which have varying levels of usefulness. The API's have been around for a while, and multiple old versions still active and working.
• The upload@strava.com functionality might get removed, while this is unlikely, I would have said the same thing about removing any public-access to their proper API, but oh