Commandline tool to import workouts from a Garmin Forerunner device under Linux. Tested with Forerunner 305, may possibly work with other devices.

Dependencies

The tool depends on garmintools to import data from a Garmin device. You can get those in .rpm format from Andreas Diesner's website, use the sources found on Google Code, or embear's modified version available here on GitHub.

Then, java runtime will be needed, along with saxon. If you want to import GPS data, too, you will also need gpsbabel installed.

How it works

This tool is nothing more than a small handy wrapper around work made by others.

• First, it uses garmin_save_runs from garmintools to import .gmn files from a Garmin device.
• Then, it uses a bash/saxon script created by Braiden Kindt to convert the .gmn files to .tcx.

How to use it

Simply dump everything to ~/exports (this is the directory garmin_save_runs saves data into, so I figured, to avoid mess, it will be the best place to put this tool). If you want, for convenience, you can copy the importgarmin file to /usr/bin, or whatever else directory included in your PATH.

Once you have all the depencencies satisfied and the files copied, just run:

$ importgarmin

If everything went correctly, inside ~/exports you should find the .gmn files created by garmin_save_runs, each file accompanied by a converted .gmn.tcx Garmin Training Center file.

Troubleshooting

Note that, when attempting to run garmin_save_runs, you may get a message about the device being busy communicating. This is most often caused by the garmin_gps kernel module talking to the device. If that's the case, you will need to edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add garmin_gps to the blacklist. After that, you can either try to unload to module at runtime, or just restart your OS.

Also, depending on your SELinux policy, it may turn out that you need root access for garmin_save_runs to successfully read from the device.

If you suddenly find your .gmn / .tcx files missing GPS data, try removing the files and running the tool again. It seems that sometimes, if you run the import to soon after plugging in the device, GPS data is not transferred.