Garmin Down - Will MapRunG still work?

Posted by Peter Effeney on
URL: http://maprun.308.s1.nabble.com/MapRunG-MapRun-on-a-Garmin-Watch-tp188p483.html

The Garmin outage is continuing longer than anyone expected.

You CAN still run with MapRunG ... but getting your result uploaded is not as convenient.

Take the normal steps to send the event to your watch. That is, make sure your watch is connected to your phone and your phone is online, then send the event from MapRunF on your phone and start MapRunG.

You can run as normal, and MapRunG will beep at controls and record your run.

HOWEVER, until Garmin comes back online, your Activity will not be sync'd to Garmin Connect so, MapRun won't be able to "Get Track from Garmin" to display a result on your phone (and then upload it to be included in the results of the event).

SO - you can either wait until Garmin comes back online,  assuming it comes back to "normal" state, and Sync then.

OR - You need to get the FIT file off your watch onto your computer, upload it to Strava (or similar) and export a GPX file which you can then upload to MapRun using the GPX Track Upload http://p.fne.com.au/#/gpsupload 

Alternatively, rather than go via Strava, you can use sites like: http://garmin.stevegordon.co.uk/ to convert a .FIT file to .GPX.

If the Garmin outage continues.... I'll extend the GPX Track Upload to accept uploading .FIT files directly from your computer.

Peter