![]() ![]() They sent e-mail off to that address…and heard little back. Any application developers that have run into an issue can contact us at to let us know what isn’t working for them.” “I spoke with our Connect team and it was unintentional and there is no new blocking policy. The app without notice changed the location of the files, thus overnight breaking consumers ability to easily use those third party apps and forcing those companies to change their software.Īfter a flood of complaints I brought the API/site breakage issue up to Garmin, to which Garmin responded with: Ironically, apps like Sport Tracks & Training Peaks broke not because of the Garmin Connect rollout, but because of a concurrent start of the Garmin Express rollout (to replace the Garmin ANT Agent for uploading Garmin Forerunner workouts). Apps like ConnectStats, LogMyTraining, RunCoach, Sport Tracks, Training Peaks, Wahoo Fitness, and Altifondo, among many others. This meant that any 3rd party site or apps (mostly apps though) could no longer access data from the site. In doing so however, they immediately broke all 3rd party application access to Garmin Connect. Since everything for Vivofit was built with GC2 in mind, and since it was time to start shipping Vivofit to consumers – Garmin began the rollout of GC2 to consumers. This interface would be the long-term future of Garmin Connect for sports and fitness activities, but more pressingly was required to rollout Garmin Vivofit, their recently announced daily activity tracker. I found this sorta strange given that they had an entire site dedicated to said API (still present even then), along with terms of service that still said you were allowed to do anything you wanted as long as it was great.īut things got quiet again and nobody screamed…until mid-February.įast forward to the week of February 17th, when Garmin started rolling out their new Garmin Connect Modern interface, also known as GC2. You can find our corporate wellness page here, which will change on January 6 to reflect the new product announcements.” The API makes it possible for all activity monitoring and fitness device data to be shared with a wellness partner. We are working closely with B2B partners who are looking to use activity data to validate a participant’s activities in their wellness program. When I first started poking around at this back in early January (before the data cutoff in February) when Garmin appeared to delete the welcome page for the API instructions (but not delete any other content, including all the details). ![]() Ultimately, they were allowing you to view your data that you uploaded. There were cool apps that uploaded data, parsed data, viewed data, and allowed you to analyze the data. “You are free to access our API as long as you agree to create great things.” The API had a very simple terms of service, that previously said (in total): An API that was built over half a decade earlier by the MotionBased team (which Garmin bought and eventually rebranded Garmin Connect). Up until February, Garmin Connect had an API that was available to developers to use free of charge. In doing so Garmin effectively completed a Strava-like blockage on a single night without any notice (that they since changed direction on). That wall was targeted at blocking the numerous app developers that used to directly pull data from Garmin Connect. So then you might be asking – why would this be a bad thing? Well, because while Garmin has built a bridge that many users will love with automatic sync, they’ve also built a huge wall at the same time. ![]() But ultimately, those two companies are just the first two to take advantage of it – with a number of massive fitness/sports names in the queue, as Garmin and those other companies work through the technical implementation details. The culmination of that effort arrived today with direct synchronization to TrainingPeaks and runcoach. This morning’s announcement by Garmin of their Garmin Sync rollout is one that’s been long in the making – starting in earnest much earlier this year. ![]()
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