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?
Hopefully yes. See https://github.com/pytrainer/pytrainer/issues/5
> > > 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)?
There are different issues:
1.- Version 1.3.5 is the only supported version so far because of changes
in tcx format support. The idea is to double check again with version 1.4.4
(see https://github.com/pytrainer/pytrainer/issues/13) so hopefully we can
get rid of this limitation.
2.- The issue with laps in FIT format using GPSBabel is based just on my
own investigations, I haven't been able to find any official information
from GPSBabel yet.
> > > 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.
>
Great to know the root cause ;)
Cheers
David G.
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