On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 10:21 +0200, David García Granda wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > > Just wondering what people are currently using to download tracks from > > their garmin devices. > > After four and a half years, my 305 died
My condolences > (it has been discontinued by > Garmin as far as I am aware) and now I am using a 210 which stores > data in FIT format Does this mean new garmin devices work with pytrainer? > > I have a garmin 305, and I used to use garmintools but the most recent > > version I could find for my F18 machine was > > garmintools-0.10-4.fc14.x86_64 and it doesn't seem to be working (still > > trying to track down the problem). The closest version of gpsbabel I > > could find is gpsbabel-1.3.5-beta20080121.i386 but pytrainer requires an > > exact match, I could try rebuilding and installing the package myself > > but it seems a bit of a hassle. > > I have to admit a love–hate relationship with GPSBabel. I have made > several tests with different versions and formats and results are > strange most of the times. As an example, it seems that GPSBabel 1.4.4 > (last version) does not support laps when importing from FIT files and > because of that I decided to integrate some perl scripts to do the job > (see > http://www.mail-archive.com/pytrainer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg00519.html) Is the gpsbabel 1.3.5 a hard requirement then or just a less problematic version (ie does laps)? > > In either case it's the choice of a project that looks to have been dead > > since 2009, or an obsolete version of another project. So how are people > > getting the tracks from their forerunners into pytrainer? > > I am also running F18, but no longer using garmintools. Did you try to > run commands directly from console as Arnd suggests?. Maybe the issue > is related to permissions accessing usb port. Yup permissions, will try to track it down. thanks, Aaron ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ Pytrainer-devel mailing list Pytrainer-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytrainer-devel
