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People who rely on maps would have them downloaded onto their navigation devices. Nobody needs Garmin to be up 100% of the time.
All wearable devices should implement local-host functionality and capability by default, failure to do so it's not acceptable from the perspective of Murphy's Law [1], [2]. [1] Local-first software: https://localfirstweb.dev/ [2] Murphy's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
Unlike the Apple Watch, or Fitbit (Google), the Garmin watches function properly without being tethered to a phone. You can setup a watch without a phone and without ever activating the online services. They are here only for backup and additional features like social sharing. You can also backup locally with open source software if you want. That's why I chose one and it's one of the best products I ever had.
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Unlike the Apple Watch, or Fitbit (Google), the Garmin watches function properly without being tethered to a phone. You can setup a watch without a phone and without ever activating the online services. They are here only for backup and additional features like social sharing. You can also backup locally with open source software if you want. That's why I chose one and it's one of the best products I ever had.
This makes me wanna buy from garmin. Do they embrace opensource tools or are they reverse engineered and Garmin just does not fight them?
People who rely on maps would have them downloaded onto their navigation devices. Nobody needs Garmin to be up 100% of the time.
Well, nobody needs anything 100% of the time besides oxygen. But if you pay a lot of money for a watch because it has certain features backed by services, I would definitely hope that I can actually use them when I want to.
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Unlike the Apple Watch, or Fitbit (Google), the Garmin watches function properly without being tethered to a phone. You can setup a watch without a phone and without ever activating the online services. They are here only for backup and additional features like social sharing. You can also backup locally with open source software if you want. That's why I chose one and it's one of the best products I ever had.
Yup, I have a Garmin Fenix 8 AMOLED. It's an excellent watch. I run for 6-8 hours a week and I only need to charge it once a week. It is very hard wearing and has so many capabilities I don't know where to start. It even has a flashlight with red LED for during the night. With Garmin connect down I can just grab the FIT file from the watch and upload to Strava manually or perform my own analysis locally.
... Sorry, what type of file is it? Just a CSV?
All Garmin Connect services are currently down. This affects most (all?) Garmin fitness products such as the popular Fenix watches. The Garmin Connect app seems to be completely useless without the Garmin Connect servers being up. It is not even possible to see local data on the phone. I guess this also means that at some point in the future when Garmin discontinues the servers an enormous amount of watches becomes u…
> The Garmin Connect app seems to be completely useless without the Garmin Connect servers being up. It is not even possible to see local data on the phone. Not the case, I can see all the local data from my watch in the app and still sync the two, just missing cloud backups and online specific functionality
All Garmin Connect services are currently down. This affects most (all?) Garmin fitness products such as the popular Fenix watches. The Garmin Connect app seems to be completely useless without the Garmin Connect servers being up. It is not even possible to see local data on the phone. I guess this also means that at some point in the future when Garmin discontinues the servers an enormous amount of watches becomes u…
I can still see and navigate through everything
People who rely on maps would have them downloaded onto their navigation devices. Nobody needs Garmin to be up 100% of the time.
Well, nobody needs anything 100% of the time besides oxygen. But if you pay a lot of money for a watch because it has certain features backed by services, I would definitely hope that I can actually use them when I want to.
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Yup, I have a Garmin Fenix 8 AMOLED. It's an excellent watch. I run for 6-8 hours a week and I only need to charge it once a week. It is very hard wearing and has so many capabilities I don't know where to start. It even has a flashlight with red LED for during the night. With Garmin connect down I can just grab the FIT file from the watch and upload to Strava manually or perform my own analysis locally.
Rojee, could you provide more information about grabbing the FIT file from the watch? Also, what kind of analysis do you do locally? ... Sorry, what type of file is it? Just a CSV?
Obtaining the file is as easy as connecting the cable to the device and plugging in to a USB port and accessing the mounted drive
FIT format details: https://docs.fileformat.com/gis/fit/
Converter: https://github.com/dodo-saba/fit2gpx