WaterrowerAntBle VS GarminDB

They easily could if they added the Ant+ radio hardware. But even with just Bluetooth it's entirely possible with the proper protocols. I mean, if this guy can write software to make it work on a Raspberry Pi, then SmartRow should be able to figure it out.

I’m using pirowflow: https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo

It's disappointing that Garmin's specification sheets don't say this explicitly, but this forum post suggests that Garmin watches can connect via BluetoothFTMS to rowers that support it. And this device supposedly fixes the SmartRow's issues with limited Bluetooth connectivity capabilities.

Ah, yeah, tough. If you're technologically adventurous, you could always try https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo

For any devs/tech tinkerers maybe u/leelooleered's PiRowFlo [GitHub] could be used to replace the ComModule since I see it out of stock from most shops.

I am newish to Flutter and know no other languages. I am wanting to develop an app that will run on Android, iOS, web, Windows etc. The app is require to read (and hopefully write as well) BLE. Initially just from the Waterrower (www.waterrower.com) but hopefully in the future from other rowers as well. The Waterrower has a bluetooth addon (Commodule) which appears to not be very reliable. https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo is developing a Pi based unit which is yet to come on the market but looks very promising. Coxswain is a waterrower app that only works on Android that is written in Java, can uses bluetooth and can also uses a USB cable for direct serial connection. There are a few Flutter BLE libraries (flutter_blue, flutter_bluetooth_serial (based on flutter_blue), flutter_reactive_ble) but they are only for Android and iOS. There is github.com/tbressler/waterrower-core written in Java for connecting the waterrower with Windows, Linux and macOS. I have no idea how the app running in a browser would connect to BLE.

Project is open source: https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo

This is the link to the github repo: https://github.com/inonoob/WaterrowerAntBle

How are you syncing/storing the data?

I've been a Garmin user for nearly a decade and would really like to get the data off their platform so I can do more with it.

There are a few self-hosted options (https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB seems like the best) but I keep kicking that can down the road.

You may want to check out https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB if you're using a newer (Elevate v4 or v5 sensor) Garmin device.

https://graphhopper.com/maps/ is an amazing product that is open source, but it just does routing (with GPX download). I wish it had a little PostGIS data browser that I could write into via routes I draw on the map, or I upload (or import from other devices using something like GarminDB or similar). That, and adding arbitrary points, would be great. Just a simple, general-purpose map authoring tool. I just feel like I'm missing something, it seems like this would exist already.

If you are just interested in getting the data, GarminDB works really well.

Have a look at GarminDB. It allows you to download all your activity files.

I found this https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB, it looks like the thing you're talking about. However it doesn't use "the" API or a API: It web-scrapes the data from your "Daily Summary" page on Garmin Connect. It can also import data that has been exported (manually) from Garmin Connect. Neither of these two are an API.

Ah, sorry I thought I had linked GarminDB in my post. It's a set of python scripts for downloading fitness and health data from Garmin Connect or a Garmin device via USB and importing into a SQLite database. The idea is then to visualize/analyze the data with something like Jupyter.

This tool is for Peloton -> Garmin. I personally haven't tried to export Garmin -> X myself as I haven't had the need yet, but there seems to be a few repos where I'd start looking: * https://github.com/petergardfjall/garminexport * https://github.com/tcgoetz/GarminDB