Fitness Syncer now active for BT users! (Page 5)

My experience, up until now, has been that Elapsed time is imported, not moving time. I rode on Feb 15th and Strava shows 1:47.  Neostrack and Training peaks are attached. BT shows that I rode for 2:08:16. NeosTrack, which would be the originating system shows differently. I did notice that you are now using moving time, so I'll take another look in the morning, after my upload occurs.

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Confirmed. Runs are importing as elapsed time and not moving time.  The import path was Strava > FitnessSyncer > BT

I'm attaching screenshots from Strava and BT.  (ETA No idea why the time/distance aren't an exact match.)

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I just checked and BT shows a different time period.

Please let me know when it's OK for me to update this in my training log.

I'm also seeing this behavior for bike rides. Elapsed time is being imported rather than moving time. 

Again, please let me know when it is OK for me to update my training lot.

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I have embedded my Strava activities in my log for this week, in an effort to show the differences. I believe something wacky happened on Saturday. It almost looks like there are calculations of some sort going on. BT shows elapsed time, double the distance and a ton of calories burned. 869 calories are shown on Strava and Fitness Syncer, 2519 are shown "From Activities" on BT. Calorie burn is off on the other two this week, one way over, the other showing "0". The numbers in FS are what I see in Strava.

This is the current status of the FitnessSyncer import as I see it:

The good

• imports from Strava!
• imports from The Sufferfest and Zwift via both Strava and Garmin Connect
• imports yoga as sports/yoga (awesome to not have to change it)

The bad

• swim data is importing incorrect distance from Strava
• somtimes it just takes a long time.  If I finish a ride at 6am, it should be on BT well before 10am
• mapping of no SBR activities. Yoga comes in great from The Sufferfest but if I do a strength set and record it on my Garmin watch, it comes in as either Sports/Strength or Sports/Weights depending on if I import into FitnessSyncer from Garmin or from Strava.  Personally, I find Sports/Strength to be acceptable. I think that since BT has a Strength data field, though, the most correct answer is that it should go there.  I'm not good with it coming in inconsistently (sometimes as one thing and sometimes another). I'd prefer Sports/Strength or Strength.
• The whole moving time versus elapsed time thing.  I'm really, really not good with elapsed time at all.
  • Yesterday's run came in as elapsed time. BAD
  • Today's swim came in as elapsed time. BAD
  • I'll leave it to Chris to address bikes coming in as moving time or elapsed time since he is doing more outdoor riding than I am at the moment.

Do you have any additional updates?

As of this morning:

• Swim distances are continuing to import incorrectly.  1909.45 =! 1950
• Swim times are importing as elapsed time and not moving time. I don't know if this is by design or not.
• Run times are importing as elapsed time and not moving time.  Again, is this by design or not?
• I cannot speak to bike times since I've mostly been on the trainer
• Strava imports are a double edged sword, they provide more data when importing items originating from Zwift or The Sufferfest but they take for-ev-er (a full day in some cases).
• Strength continues to import in different ways depending on if the import comes is Garmin > FitnessSyncer > BT or Strava >FitnessSyncer > BT. 

Alice, this is more of an FYI than anything else. I did a number of rides at the beginning of this week (Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday), that I uploaded when I got back to town late on Tuesday. None of these appear in BT. I'll take a look at Fitness Syncer when I get home this evening. My knee jerk observation on this is that the daily upload piece from FS really seems cludgy at best. I really don't have the time to trouble shoot that, but I'll send an email over to them this evening and see if I get anywhere with them.

Thanks,

CB

I have also noticed that my run distances are somewhat off. There seems to be some kind of rounding error so a run might be 5.01 miles on my watch and 4.99 miles by the time it gets to BT.

As Chris said, it seems like it's a once a day import from Strava at best.

I didn't get a chance to work on this last night, however all of my rides came in at some point. So that's good. The bad is that the time I spent fixing a flat and speaking with the land manager was included in my workout from Wednesday. So, my 13.3 mph average in Strava looks like 7.8 mph in BT. Luckily for me, BT is not my system of record, so I don't really have an emotional tie to this. Others may. I get that we are going to agree to disagree on this, so I'm simply going to divest myself of the discussion.

Quite honestly, I'm happy to work on this as long as BT and FitnessSyncer are working on it.  After more than a week of silence on these issues, I'm getting the impression that BT has lost interest.

I'm sure that you have bigger fish to fry.  I'd be happy to continue testing when you have the time to support that effort. I'm going back to Garmin import until then.

Here's a summary of my findings for the Strava > FitnessSyncer > BT piece of the puzzle

Outdoor run

• Distance imports with rouding error (for example, Garmin will report 5.01 and BT will report a distance of 4.99)
• Time is incorrect.  Imports elapsed time rather than moving time

Outdoor ride

• Time is incorrect.  Imports elapsed time rather than moving time
• File size issue prevented additional imports for testing

Yoga

• works great! Imports The Sufferfest yoga workouts as sports/yoga.  Perfect!

Strength (recorded on Garmin watch)

• Imports as Sports/Weights rather than as Strength
• Sidenote: with Garmin > FitnessSyncer > BT it imports as Sports/Strength rather than Strength.  I found this to be more acceptable

Indoor rides

• Works well.  Imports time, distance, power.  Since moving time and elapsed time are virtually the same for indoor rides, that is a non issue.  I like that the Strava sync imports power.

Additional note: Strava sync is data rich but very slow.

Again, please let me know when you are interested in supporting a testing effort. I think that this could be a nice addition for BT.