Connecting Garmin Connect to Myfitnesspal

Troubling! My vivofit is scheduled to arrive today. I chose it because Garmin Connect talks to MFP and the fit connects to a HRM. Hopefully, it will get fixed soon.

mine worked fine on Friday, but didn't work on Sunday (not even manually syncing on the GC end). I was able to manually sync it last night (again on the GC end)...but it's still not automatically syncing today. grrrrr...

gobonas99 wrote: »

sezzytucker wrote: »

On another discussion board about this MFP have said they are aware of a problem and are looking into it. Fingers crossed.

where? I can't find it...

myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1781541--myfitnesspal-and-garmin-withings-sync-issues

trekkersforever wrote: »

gobonas99 wrote: »

sezzytucker wrote: »

On another discussion board about this MFP have said they are aware of a problem and are looking into it. Fingers crossed.

where? I can't find it...

myfitnesspal.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/1781541--myfitnesspal-and-garmin-withings-sync-issues

thanks!

I really wish they would broadcast these issues (they HAVE to know who has what apps synced), so we would know something's up.

good luck getting a response from Garmin....from what I've read, they're worse than MFP (but better than Polar). LOL

gobonas99 wrote: »

good luck getting a response from Garmin....

There is a response on their forums identifying the problem, but suggesting that it's intermittent and now down to a backlog of traffic.

There's no identification of an issue at the Garmin end, it seems to be all about MFP propagating traffic outbound.

hmmm I thought i was the only one, I have Withings scale and garmin F2 and the VS, and all synced flowless , I ot my weight to MFP and then to GC an steps and workout all, but last wek it stoped syning Weight still synced mi workoutouts from F2 to MFP, but as well this stoped sunday, o today nothing syncs with nothing, I will wait and see, hopefully it will do the back loog as well when it comes back..

MeanderingMammal wrote: »

MFP is the only Garmin integration that's not working. That suggests problem at this end.

there's a shocker LOL

I think I figured part of it out!!! At least for manual GC workout entries!

I was in GC looking at my "calories in/out" summary section and noticed that it showed 866 cals for my activity for today...I thought that was very odd, considering that my swim this morning only burned 544 cals....so I went in and looked at the activities in the detailed calories in/out module and saw that my lifting workout from Sunday night was showing for Monday, and nothing was showing for Sunday, and my lifting workout from Tuesday was showing for today! so I went back into my activities mod and saw that my sunday workout had 12/1 as 12:28pm on it (in the activity list)....but when I went into the activity itself, it was correct at 11/30 at 7:28pm....same thing for my Tuesday night workout.

hmmmm....so I decided to go in an edit the workout - my time zone was showing as greenwich meantime, instead of eastern! I changed it to eastern on all three workouts (sun and tues lifting, and today's swim), and my swim appeared in MFP immediately!!!

I don't remember if I forgot to set the timezone (I could see forgetting on one but not three in four days) or if Garmin changed it on me.....but try checking that for your manual entries.

I logged a work out at MFP of 800 calories (riding an elliptical trainer for over an hour). When I looked at the Garmin Connect website, it told me I'd burned 10,000 calories of activities that day. What the heck?

After poking around, I discovered the MFP had sent that one activity to GC over 10 times. No idea why.

I've since disconnected the synch between MFP and GC and don't plan on synching them again. At least, not until I hear it's fixed.

Additionally, even when it was working, the results were a bit off.

I would walk 40 minutes. Manually entering this into MFP, it would estimate this to be around 200 calories. Garmin's VivoSmart assesses a 40 minute walk as around 130 calories.

My way of assessing my activity levels (tons of walking) would get me around 700 calories burned in a day. Garmin would assess it at around 400. Which is a large discrepancy.

As with all pedometers and fitness measuring tools, your mileage will vary. I never know who to believe, but I'm not quite crazy enough to go out and buy a heart monitoring strap just to calculate calories burned walking to work, at lunch, and home from work.

nikmaack wrote: »

I logged a work out at MFP of 800 calories (riding an elliptical trainer for over an hour). When I looked at the Garmin Connect website, it told me I'd burned 10,000 calories of activities that day. What the heck?

After poking around, I discovered the MFP had sent that one activity to GC over 10 times. No idea why.

I've since disconnected the synch between MFP and GC and don't plan on synching them again. At least, not until I hear it's fixed.

Um...you're using it backwards...you should be logging exercise in Garmin Connect, which then syncs to MFP.

Also, 800 Cals for an hour on an elliptical is REALLY high....you wouldn't burn that much in an hour of running (which has a high calorie burn than the elliptical).

Additionally, even when it was working, the results were a bit off.

I would walk 40 minutes. Manually entering this into MFP, it would estimate this to be around 200 calories. Garmin's VivoSmart assesses a 40 minute walk as around 130 calories.

My way of assessing my activity levels (tons of walking) would get me around 700 calories burned in a day. Garmin would assess it at around 400. Which is a large discrepancy.

Sorry to be a downer, but the Garmin calc is MUCH more accurate than the MFP estimate.

As with all pedometers and fitness measuring tools, your mileage will vary. I never know who to believe, but I'm not quite crazy enough to go out and buy a heart monitoring strap just to calculate calories burned walking to work, at lunch, and home from work.

You already have the Vivofit. the $50 for the HRM to go with it would be a good investment.