FAQ UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING - GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah GitHub Wiki

UPLOADING AND DOWNLOADING

How to import activities automatically at startup?

There are 2 mechanism you can use depending on the origin and your requirements:

  1. Cloud-Sync files from a cloud service, this can be very convenient for users of these services s.t. Strava, but beware data synced may not include all the data in the original file and, when using Local or DropBox services, only GC .json format is supported to enable full data sync. See Cloud Service Config for details.
  2. Auto-import files from a local or network folder mounted locally, this works for any supported file format similar to manual import, see Auto-Import Config for details.

Why some data series are missing when I synchronize from Strava?

The Strava Synchronization feature introduced in GoldenCheetah v3.5 uses Strava API to download activities, the data streams available currently are limited and they don't include L/R Power, Running Power, Swimming Lengths, etc. Strava Sync is convenient and depending on your needs and devices it may be enough, but to fully exploit data produced by some devices, s.t. Garmin Cycling and Running Dynamics or length-by-length pool swimming data, you need to import the original FIT file, which you can download from Strava using a Web Chart.

How to fix permission denied ?

When downloading from a Joule, Osynce, Powertap, SRM or Moxy over a serial port on Linux you may see a permission denied error -- this is because you are not a member of the "dialout" user group that owns the serial device.

To fix it add the user to the dialout group on the command line. This is done with the command "sudo usermod -aG dialout USERNAME" where USERNAME is replaced with your login name. You will need to logout and log back in again for the change to take effect.

Why does upload to TrainingPeaks keep failing?

TrainingPeaks closed their API and have no plans to re-open to 3rd party applications. You can export history (via the Settings option in TrainingPeaks) as a zip file and import that directly into GoldenCheetah.

How to download from Garmin Connect?

We recommend linking Garmin Connect with Strava and downloading from Strava using the cloud sync features in version 3.5.

An alternative workflow, useful for day to day interactive download, is explained in: Web Chart

What settings do I need to get GoldenCheetah to upload to my Google Calendar?

The upload to Google Calendar uses their CalDAV API, and as such needs to specify a collection. This means when entering the details in the passwords pane of preferences you should use the following for the caldav url:

https://apidata.googleusercontent.com/caldav/v2/xxxx@@gmail.com/events/

Where xxxx is your username. The username will need to be repeated in the username field and obviously set the password too.

NOTE: that the previous address has now been deprecated, those were of the form https://www.google.com/calendar/dav/xxxx@@gmail.com/events/

When setting up my Withings wifi scales where do I get the userid and key ?

As of Nov 2015 Withings are migrating to a new web interface and some of the old functionality is still in transition. It is quite hard to find the details as a result !

This is the advice provided by Withings to get to the old functionality you need.

You should still be able to access it by following these steps:

1) Login to https://healthmate.withings.com
2) Click on your email address in the upper right corner of screen
3) Select Settings from the dropdown menu
4) Under Devices click the button to Configure a WBS01
5) On the next screen click My Dashboard

You'll arrive at the old interface with the Share option

Please note that this interface is no longer supported so we would 
not be able to account for any potential software bugs. We are working 
to migrate as many features of this interface as possible over to the 
new interface, though I do not have a timeline that I am able to 
provide at the moment.

If you click on 'share on my website' you will be greeted with a number of code snippets you can embed in a web page. If you look closely in the top right hand corner there will be a box containing the user id and public key. These are the two values you need to enter into the options dialog.

You will now be able to retrieve withings data via the tools menu.

NOTE: The new Withings API is integrated in the last v3.5 development builds (see https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah/releases), you can authorize using Share > Add Cloud Account > Measures > Withings and download using Share > Get Body Measures.

Why can I no longer download directly from an SRM PC V?

We no longer support downloading from older SRM devices on Windows. This is due to technical reasons related to DLL support for the chip used in older SRM devices. We recommend that you use the SRM software to download from older SRM devices and import the resulting file into GoldenCheetah.