Publishing Garmin Fitness Data Livestream to microprediction.org
Microprediction.org is an important project enabling data science competition to be applied generally to streaming timeseries data streams. Garmin LiveTrack enables the user to publish an open public dashboard for viewing quasi real-time location the athlete. In this blog, we discuss the usability of microprediction.org for publishing data streams that are using HTTP requests.
About Garmin LiveTrack
Garmin fitness trackers have a function called LiveTrack that projects one's data stream to a web interface You can configure it to send an email with the link to the garmin interface that shows the stream on start https://livetrack.garmin.com/session/613d898a-f32f-4faf-907b-c4b7fd91c70c/token/4C7592681CAFB411C462C432381BB5
The dashboard in the browser is configured to poll the garmin server periodically for updates. View Aaron’s profileAaron Soellinger Aaron Soellinger 11:54 AM Like this: https://livetrack.garmin.com/services/session/613d898a-f32f-4faf-907b-c4b7fd91c70c/sessionToken/4C7592681CAFB411C462C432381BB5?requestTime=1612284810253
Aaron Soellinger 11:55 AM
This is what you can get:
- Current location
- Average pace
- Elapsed time of activity
- Distance traveled
- Elevation gain
- A planned route
- Current pace*
- Speed*
- Current elevation*
- Heart rate*
- Cadence*
This information will be displayed by selecting Graphs at the bottom of the LiveTrack map.