Strava equipment selection and Activity Fix support needed
Strava API allows an integration set the equipment type for the Strava Activity. This means that the Karoo could pass the bike name to Strava to properly set it in the activity. So if you have more than one bike, you wouldn't have to go in and edit each activity if you used different equipment than the default bike in Strava.
Activity Fix is a really cool website (https://www.activityfix.com/) that allows you to make rules based changes to your Strava Activities. You can change the equipment type based on sensor data in the FIT File. Unfortunately, it looks like HH does not include the listing of sensors in the FIT file like Garmin and Wahoo do. I know Garmin does, I verified that this morning. I believe Wahoo does as well, but I don't have a unit to verify.
So how about it HH, please set it so that either the Karoo uploads the bike information to the Strava API or includes the sensor data with ANT+ ID. Better yet, do both.
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I suffered the same fate when switching from a Garmin to Karoo2. The FIT file does actually contain device info, I checked a ride and the last record (device_info) had both power meter and HR mon details. The issue is that ActivityFix needs an API to access this data and to date, HH haven't provided one. there was mention by them that this would be useful over a year ago, but still we wait.... I get around it in Activity fix to an extent by creating rules that look at where I start/stop rides, or where I go. I can thus differentiate consistently between commuter, racer and gravel bikes... eg if a ride starts or stops at work, I've commuted and the bike will 99% time be the commuter.
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Quick reply to support this topic.
I use multiple bikes (race, gravel, mtb, ebike) and with my Garmin head unit, I've used ActivityFix to set the correct equipment type for the Strava Activity. This works perfectly as the bikes differ in which sensors are present (power meters/cadence/speed). This helps to keep track of the total distance per bike for maintenance as well as just to keep a nice overview.
Parsing sensor information to Strava would enable ActivityFix support although the suggestion to directly send the selected gear (in the HH head unit) to Strava would also work.
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I sure hope so. I switched last fall to a Garmin Edge 1040 because of the battery capacity of the K2 had been an ongoing problem and mine was losing further capacity due to age (it was one of the earliest K2’s). Getting back into the Garmin ecosystem got my ActivityFix gear selection working again.
I’d like to go to a K3 given that the battery capacity is marginally better, I’m not willing to even look at it until ActivityFix is supported. With 4 bikes, it’s just too much manual record keeping.
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