GarminDB

Post by ianburrell » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 8:56 PM UTC

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #70

WD-42 wrote: post #13

Be warned anyone that uses this - it uses Garth ( https://github.com/matin/garth ) to authenticate. It masquerades as an Android app (a single instance of one at that) and does some hacky stuff to login via web forms. Garmin is such a horrible company to try to integrate with. I don't know why they lock down their stuff so hard like this. And if you do manage to gain access to one of their offical APIs or SDKs, they…

Very contrary to my experience. I've been using InReach and the InReach APIs for a few years now. They were both very reasonably priced (they cost nothing above my InReach subscription price), very easy to get access to (I emailed them and got access to API docs and the APIs within a day or three) and extremely well thought out and reliable (very robust callback based event/point reporting system, with retries on the…

Post by PeterStuer » Mon, Feb 03, 2025, 9:56 PM UTC

fbnlsr wrote: post #33

WD-42 wrote: post #13

Be warned anyone that uses this - it uses Garth ( https://github.com/matin/garth ) to authenticate. It masquerades as an Android app (a single instance of one at that) and does some hacky stuff to login via web forms. Garmin is such a horrible company to try to integrate with. I don't know why they lock down their stuff so hard like this. And if you do manage to gain access to one of their offical APIs or SDKs, they…

I'm a Garmin user as I find the hardware to be very reliable but the market is in deep need of an Open Source alternative. Let's not forget Garmin was victim of a ransomware attack in 2020 and they finally paid $10 million after days of blackout and they never really addressed the issue.