It’s been a while, but I’ve finally found some time to work on pygarmin and garmin-sync again. This has resulted in a new version of garmin-sync, 0.3. Not much has changed since 0.2; the biggest changes are in pygarmin itself. In general, this version should work better for people who had trouble getting it to work in the past.

You can download it at https://launchpad.net/garmin-sync/+download

New features include:

• More robust USB communication
• Possibility to get debug information, to help fix problems
• Might work with Forerunner (testers needed)
• Fixed bug 135717 (Missing data point for Forerunner)
• Fixed bug 154081 (Some value errors when running garminsync.py)

I’m hoping this release will make garmin-sync work with the Forerunner series, and not only with Edge. If you have a Forerunner, please give it a try, and tell me whether it works.

If you have problem getting your GPS to work, please run garmin-sync with -d usb.packet and send the output to me. That will help me debug what’s wrong.

The first version of GarminSync didn’t work too well. It did download the runs from the GPS, but the resulting .tcx files were not valid, so they couldn’t be uploaded to motionbased.com. Also, if there were pauses in the run, some track points weren’t included in the exported. I’ve now fixed all the issues, and I’ve managed to upload all my recorded runs to motionbased.com.

Download 0.2 of GarminSync and give it a try. It still has some bugs, but it should be usable. If you find something that doesn’t work, you can file a bug, and I’ll try to fix it.

I have been working on a program that can download data from my Garmin Edge 305 GPS in Linux, and now I’ve finally got something that’s work. The program is called GarminSync, and you can download it from Launchpad.

Please try it out, but don’t expect too much from it. My main focus has been to get something working, now I’m going to focus more on getting it somewhat stable. There are a tons of bugs, for example it sometimes doesn’t work to download the data, and you have to simply try to run it again, and/or reconnect the GPS. But at least it’s able to download the runs from my GPS and export them to TCX files. It should be possible to such files to MotionBased, but it seems like the format is slightly wrong. At the moment I can’t get the GPS to work in VMWare, so I haven’t been able to get a correct file to compare with.

GarminSync is written in Python, so it probably works on other platforms than Linux as well, but I haven’t tried yet.