Garmin - What !!?

bianchibob

Tried up loading latest ride on Garmin Connect.

Upload successful... when I then tried to view upload I get the message

"You do not have sufficient privileges to view the activity with id xxxxxxxxx"

What does that mean, I wasn't aware I had any privileges with Garmin.

My Garmin account is linked to Strava and if I view Strava everything is there.

What is all this about ?

sloppyschleckonds

PICNIC

tlw1

garmin connect is buggered right now

Man Of Lard

Take a look at the status page for GarminConnect: https://connect.garmin.com/en-US/status - it often helps

dilatory

I'll never understand why people hate Strava so much. Garmin Connect is just awful, both in terms of reliability and UX.

gcwebbyuk

Same problem here, GC just seems so temperamental. I seem to get a lot of issues when connecting devices (ForeRunner 305 and Edge 500) - it seems to be very hit and miss...

paul_smith_srcc

dilatory wrote:

.... Garmin Connect is just awful....

Seconded, I bought my 810 primarily to enjoy plotting, then following that plotted route and have that route backed up on my smart phone, which for me would be reassuring on a two week tour; the Edge touring had not been launched at that time. Sadly that means plotting a route on Garmin Connect, that repeatedly navigates the wrong way down one way streets and roundabouts, when I do finally get a route planned I normally lose turn by turn navigation after about 10 miles! The latter is less of an issue as I am happy to follow a highlighted route without TBT. At £479.99 (RRP when I bought it two years ago) including mapping I expected GC route planning and the 810 to be far far better than it is to be honest.

My personal choice of creating and uploading a course:
If it's quiet country side course with few roundabouts then I will still use Garmin Connect to create a course then sync that to the 810 via my smartphone app. If it's a more complex urban or longer route I use www.ridewithgps.com to create the route and add to the 810 via 'F Drive New folders', as that software navigates roundabouts and one streets correctly.The reason I chose www.ridewithgps.com is that I've found it the most user friendly, the course is intuitive to plan, then edit if needed, both during composition and when recalled at a later date. One handy feature I like is you can toggle between walking-cycling-driving when creating, so for you can switch to walking if you want to take the a shortcut over a footbridge for example.

If I want a back up for a few days tour on my smartphone I will always try and first create the course in GC, hoping that it will allow me to plot the route of my choice, if it will not then again I'll use www.ridewithgps.com then add to GC via www.gpsies.com convert page as described above, taking care that the course has synced as created, be warned it often doesn't, especially if you've planned a course that GC wouldn't allow in the first place. All a bit long winded and often so problematic that I give up! All this is simply because GC course creation is in short, poor!

None of this would be an issue if creating a course in GC worked as well as it should, the problem is that it shares routing with runners, it should be cycling specific.

gcwebbyuk

I was using ridewithgps to plan routes, but was recently shown: http://bikeroutetoaster.com/BRTWebUI

It seems pretty good too, and apparently can sync directly to a Garmin (although I haven't used this yet).

Bar Shaker

It's not the synching that is an issue, it is the god awful routing used on Garmin Connect.

I tried it again recently and despite double checking the route was ok, when riding it it still wanted to send me across fields.

RidewithGPS every day, for me.