Spent a good few hours yesterday and ported my garmin data over to this site here. It’s turned out better than my wordpress plugin and is way simpler to manage. I’ve still got quite a few tweaks to do but I’m super happy with how this has turned out!
As I slowly get back into running, I realized my garmin plugin had a minor bug. When I built this last year, I had inadvertently hard-coded the years field in the summary and the totals for the current year where obviously messed up. For now I’ve patched it with a quick-fix. Will have to automate it when I have a bit more time and I think I already know what needs to be done. ...
Tweaked this setup further to make it a bit more seamless. I used a different but more reliable script to fetch the activity json files and setup a cron job to run twice every week. Next-up: 01. Make the parsing and data display theme agnostic. 02. Add a quick link to publish individual activities as posts if required 03. Build some cool charts :)
Earlier this week, I came across this nifty python tool that lets you backup all your garmin data from the Garmin-Connect platform. I wrote a crude WordPress plugin to parse the json files over and display the data on my website here. The tool is kind of unstable because it essentially ‘mimics’ a regular Garmin-connect login and download. Also probably the reason why there aren’t many functional plugins for Garmin on wordpress. ...