Garmin Connect & Vivomart + MyFitnessPal
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MelissaHopeG
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Hi,
I've done MFP before but I've just got the garmin vivosmart. I have a few questions I hope someone can help with?? Thanks!!
- Trying to sync it all, and my food calories aren't showing up in the garmin connect app. It says to add food in MFP but I already have... any tips? Tried syncing through the garmin connect website but thats not working either (read that on here somewhere)
- On MFP The only thing that has synched is that it randomly says aerobic activity 481 calories in my exercise section of MFP - is that from my steps? How are the steps logged?
- The Garmin connect app on my phone now lists hot yoga twice... I only did it once today
Anyone have solutions for these or any fun tips for using MFP, Garmin Connect & vivosmart together? Trying to find answers online and having trouble...
I've done MFP before but I've just got the garmin vivosmart. I have a few questions I hope someone can help with?? Thanks!!
- Trying to sync it all, and my food calories aren't showing up in the garmin connect app. It says to add food in MFP but I already have... any tips? Tried syncing through the garmin connect website but thats not working either (read that on here somewhere)
- On MFP The only thing that has synched is that it randomly says aerobic activity 481 calories in my exercise section of MFP - is that from my steps? How are the steps logged?
- The Garmin connect app on my phone now lists hot yoga twice... I only did it once today
Anyone have solutions for these or any fun tips for using MFP, Garmin Connect & vivosmart together? Trying to find answers online and having trouble...
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Garmin Connect isn't working correctly at the moment. Not just MFP, but there is a bunch of errors in it's data reporting. Until that is fixed, we probably won't see anything from Garmin Connect on MFP.
Examples of the errors:
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Oh and any time you log an exercise on Garmin Connect, it transfers the log to MFP. So far the majority of the time it transfers as Aerobics, general. Occasionally, I've had it duplicate on MFP and I just deleted the extra workout.
When both sites are playing nicely and Garmin isn't having issues, you should see a "Garmin Adjustment" in your exercise diary. The adjustment is:
Garmin Total Calorie Burn (BMR+tracked daily activity + exercise)
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MFP Estimated Total Calorie Burn (BMR + activity level selection + exercise)
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Adjustment (can even be negative if you have negative adjustments enabled)
Example from Dec 15:
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Thanks for the Info, I thought it was just mine that was not updating.
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This is just the post that I was looking for!!! I thought that I was the only one having this issue! Thanks a bushel and a peck!0
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Just adding to this post I have not been able to sync ANY calories from MFP to Garmin Connect in almost 2 weeks, and Garmin Connect transfer of activities to MFP stopped working 3 days ago.0
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Garmin Connect is a piece of s&%t. Seriously. Their syncing issues are regular and recurring; this happens every few weeks for days at a time. Visit the Garmin Connect Facebook page - hundreds of pissed off customers and Garmin Connect won't respond to anyone.
If I had the option of taking my piece of s&%t Vivofit and Forerunner back I would.0 -
I was given a Vivosmart for Christmas and am having the same issues syncing with MFP, but also with Map My Ride/Run. I spoke to someone at Garmin yesterday, they said exactly Shadow2soul said, that they are having issues with MFP and have engineers working on it now. As far as MMR, I'm not sure what the answer is except to sync my workouts with MFP, then maybe it will synch from there to Garmin Connect when things are back up and running.
The disapointing thing to me was when it came to the step data and sleep data. The tech said that Garmin wants to keep that specific data only in GC so that users will keep going to the Garmin site, basically to keep the hits up.0 -
BuddhaMom74 wrote: »Garmin Connect is a piece of s&%t. Seriously. Their syncing issues are regular and recurring; this happens every few weeks for days at a time. Visit the Garmin Connect Facebook page - hundreds of pissed off customers and Garmin Connect won't respond to anyone.
If I had the option of taking my piece of s&%t Vivofit and Forerunner back I would.
I told the tech that I was talking to that GC is completely bush league compared to Map My Fitness and My Fitness Pal. There is no reason that it should have such terrible usability if the engineers had ever even researched any other sites.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »Oh and any time you log an exercise on Garmin Connect, it transfers the log to MFP. So far the majority of the time it transfers as Aerobics, general. Occasionally, I've had it duplicate on MFP and I just deleted the extra workout.
When both sites are playing nicely and Garmin isn't having issues, you should see a "Garmin Adjustment" in your exercise diary. The adjustment is:
Garmin Total Calorie Burn (BMR+tracked daily activity + exercise)
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MFP Estimated Total Calorie Burn (BMR + activity level selection + exercise)
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Adjustment (can even be negative if you have negative adjustments enabled)
Example from Dec 15:
Super helpful! It updated 481 aerobic calories 3x yesterday... so weird. And then in my feed it said I did 4 hours of hot yoga (when I only did one!). So I just deleted all but the hot yoga I know I did... but maybe I should have kept that one aerobic update?0 -
johngifford73 wrote: »I was given a Vivosmart for Christmas and am having the same issues syncing with MFP, but also with Map My Ride/Run. I spoke to someone at Garmin yesterday, they said exactly Shadow2soul said, that they are having issues with MFP and have engineers working on it now. As far as MMR, I'm not sure what the answer is except to sync my workouts with MFP, then maybe it will synch from there to Garmin Connect when things are back up and running.
The disapointing thing to me was when it came to the step data and sleep data. The tech said that Garmin wants to keep that specific data only in GC so that users will keep going to the Garmin site, basically to keep the hits up.
Does this mean that our steps from garmin won't update to MFP ever?0 -
MelissaHopeG wrote: »Does this mean that our steps from garmin won't update to MFP ever?
I'm not sure, he wouldn't give me a direct answer on that. The interface between MFP and GC hasn't worked since I recieved my Vivosmart, maybe someone else could let us know if step data had ever been updated to MFP?0 -
I just got the vivofit and mine doesn't work either0
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Its painfully frustrating. May have to disconnect the two and add calories manually, but then you are unable to see your steps calories in GC as the calorie widget ( which is broken now anyway ) is inactive.
A right mess. And I feel for others who had vivofit, 920 etc for Xmas and can't get the MFP side to work properly.0 -
I think there are loads of activity tracker sync issues just now. My fitbit isn't syncing and there are quite a few complaints on the mfp Twitter feed.0
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johngifford73 wrote: »MelissaHopeG wrote: »Does this mean that our steps from garmin won't update to MFP ever?
I'm not sure, he wouldn't give me a direct answer on that. The interface between MFP and GC hasn't worked since I recieved my Vivosmart, maybe someone else could let us know if step data had ever been updated to MFP?
Your actual number of steps doesn't update to MFP, but a line item shows up under your exercises that says "Garmin Calorie Adjustment" (based on your steps), which provides the number of calories burned based on your daily steps.
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MelissaHopeG wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »Oh and any time you log an exercise on Garmin Connect, it transfers the log to MFP. So far the majority of the time it transfers as Aerobics, general. Occasionally, I've had it duplicate on MFP and I just deleted the extra workout.
When both sites are playing nicely and Garmin isn't having issues, you should see a "Garmin Adjustment" in your exercise diary. The adjustment is:
Garmin Total Calorie Burn (BMR+tracked daily activity + exercise)
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MFP Estimated Total Calorie Burn (BMR + activity level selection + exercise)
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Adjustment (can even be negative if you have negative adjustments enabled)
Example from Dec 15:
Super helpful! It updated 481 aerobic calories 3x yesterday... so weird. And then in my feed it said I did 4 hours of hot yoga (when I only did one!). So I just deleted all but the hot yoga I know I did... but maybe I should have kept that one aerobic update?
Did you log the hot yoga on MFP?
I was told by MFP with Garmin Connect, you don't log exercise here. Only log it on Garmin.
"Exercise should be logged with Garmin, and will then transfer to MyFitnessPal in the form of an adjustment." - Jay from MFP Support
The aerobic update wasn't the adjustment. The adjustment will show up as "Garmin Connect Adjustment" with a little "i" next to it in a blue circle. Example:
I think that what your seeing, is that you logged a workout here. It transferred to Garmin and then Garmin is sending it back as Aerobic, General. So essentially doubling your workout. That's my guess based on the fact that MFP says to log exercise only on Garmin. I'll test it.0 -
Even though everyone is having the same issues with the syncing between the two products everyone in my group is still losing inches at a greater rate because of the lack of bonus calories rewarded for the exercising that you do. Vivosmart is still a good product with some really neat features but it will not keep me from switching to a new device if this continues. I also can' believe that MPF engineering staff is not communicating with Garmin to help resolve these issues because there are also other fitness application out there that I'm sure will synce with Garmin just fine.0
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Tip for adding step calories to MFP while the sync issue persists.....
....Go to MFP food section and add a negative quick calorie number to snacks or another meal. You should be able to roughly estimate what this should be from the working info on Garmin connect......
This avoids adding an exercise to MFP which is then sent to Garmin Connect and in my experience things get rather confused thereafter.0 -
For me it is not so much a matter of tracking the calories burned by my steps, I figure that steps are part of my daily burn anyway. I just like to track my number of steps, and would like to keep track of them in one place.
As far as another fitness app with that ability; from talking to Garmin, it sounds like it's on thier end as they don't want to share that information to keep people visiting the GC site. I would love to even be able to manually add the steps to MFP, again, not for calorie purposes, but just as a place to keep record of the amount of my steps.0 -
So here is my problem with MFP and GC. What is the point in having a fitness tracker(Garmin Vivofit) that links with an app/website (MFP) if it never works? Isn't that a reason we bought the Garmin?
It's great that that information is on the Garmin website. It just never syncs to MFP even though Garmin says it does. It's vaporware. So you are trying to accurately track your exercise/calorie deficit with MFP and you can't.
This is a trust issue. I would not recommend Garmin products to anyone now. About all it is good for is as a heart rate monitor. The rest is rubbish and can't be trusted.0
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