Thank you so much for this great article. There’s only one more question left: am I able to do this procedure on my Iphone 11 pro max as well? And do I do it on Safari browser or should I wait for an app? For all the people that are stuggling as well: in the browser you should see your Fitbit profile picture on the upper left and your Strava profile picture on the upper right. I have different profile pictures at both accounts which made it clear for me. So I logged in with both accounts (which sounds very obviously now that I’m writing this) and than it worked. I have different emailadresses for Strava and Fitbit and this might be the thing why it didn’t work. I did all the steps you describe in this blog on a laptop with normal browser and IT WORKED! In the browser I noticed that I was logged on with my Fitbit account but not with my Strava account (yet) so I think that solved the problem. Also, I’m sure there’s other ways to get this data, but I stumbled upon this and I’m pretty excited about it.Īnd with that, that’s all I’ve got for now. His little site solves my problem, and thus I was also happy to use his Donate button at the bottom too. Note that it does not appear to automatically sync it over. I mean, sure, the Fitbit Sense was still as inaccurate as the Whoop strap on this ride (which, was a pretty easy test being just on an indoor bike, but it still shorted all the high-intensity areas by 8-10bpm), but hey…at least I can easily show that for indoor workouts now. From there, you can export to Strava:Ī couple of seconds after hitting that button, you’ve got yourself an activity over on Strava:Īnd, in my case, the ability to download the file, by choosing the pencil:īoom! And, the file is full of data properly formatted! And it works perfectly in the DCR Analyzer: Once you’ve done it on both sides, you’ll choose a date and choose ‘Sync with Fitbit’, which, will pull your activities down. It uses proper developer OAuth authentication programs for both Fitbit and Strava (meaning, it follows all the rules/etc set in place by both companies for how users control/access data). So obviously, I had to try it out! And, to save you the hassle, it’s super simple. He literally made a simple standalone site called, where the sole purpose is grabbing your non-GPS Fitbit activities and posting them to Strava. Today, while bumbling along looking for something else, I found this old post on Fitbit’s forums, where someone got just as annoyed as me…except instead of complaining to the engineers like I’ve been doing, he just made a tool to fix his issue. Which, isn’t good enough for the level of accuracy I need. In my case though, it means I can’t actually analyze any of the heart rate data from Fitbit devices for any indoor workouts, because I can’t get the actual data. So if you do a SoulCycle class with your Fitbit, it won’t upload that data to Strava. However, what actually matters here is that this also means 3rd party platforms don’t get Fitbit uploads for non-GPS workouts either. Sorry, not home!”.Īgain, it’s been like this for years, I’ve complained about it for years, Fitbit has acknowledged it during my discussions with them for years…and, it’s still broken. It just has a TCX header that says “Yo, Fitbit data goes here. See, the button is here:Īnd then when you export it out, here’s what’s in that 1KB file: When you go to export a non-GPS workout from Fitbit’s site, it pretends to export something, but all it actually does is give you a virtually empty 1KB file. In any case, one challenge I’ve always had reviewing Fitbit devices over the (many) years I’ve been reviewing them is that there’s actually no way to export a Fitbit indoor workout. I appreciate that you might get value out of that, but realistically I’m doing that 100% for my own benefit, so I can figure which one goes to which trainer 8 months or 3 years later. Like when I take photos of the power supplies for trainers. Sometimes I use this blog as a personal notepad. Heck, this post might just be more for me remembering this site than you. This post is going to be incredibly niche.
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