Tuesday, December 15, 2015

Epson Runsense

Werde Tester der neuen Runsense SF-810 von Epson

http://www.100runnertesters.de/

Ich habe mich schon mal angemeldet ...
30h Laufzeit im GPS modus ... das hört der Ultraläufer gerne, ob's in der Praxis funktioniert?
Weitere Fragen:
  • laden während dem lauf?
  • firmware updates?
  • pulsmessung im wasser? schwimm-mode gibt es wohl leider nicht :( das datenblatt sagt sogar mal solle im wasser besser keine tasten drücken
  • welche lauf/trainings optionen gibt es, wie funktioniert das erstellen und durchfuehren eines workouts?
  • daten zur lauftechnik  analyse... (running dynamics in garmin speak)? 
  • "down-" bzw. "up-"  der Daten zum PC und/oder Internet-Laufportal, wie gehts?
  • Kann ich Daten auch "einfach" von einem Nicht-Win/Mac-Rechner von der Uhr bekommen?
  • ...
... also ich könnte das Teil schon stressen ;)


Nachtrag Akku, unter http://www.navigation-professionell.de/epson-runsense-sf-810-test/ findet sich noch folgende Info, das weicht etwas von den 30h die auf der Webseite oben angegeben sind ab (?)


Epson gibt folgende Laufzeiten an:
  • GPS ausgeschaltetet: 20 Tage
  • GPS eingeschaltetet: 24 Stunden
  • GPS und Herzfrequenzmessung aktiviert: 20 Stunden
  • Herzfrequenzmessung aktiviert: 40 Stunden

Garmin Fenix3 Firmware

Beta 6.24 out since a few days ....
https://www8.garmin.com/support/download_details.jsp?id=9505

... this really solved some battery drain issues that I had seen.
Initially when I got the watch (firmware 4.40 I guess) battery drain was very well within the specifications but I can't tell which update caused the trouble I had until now.
The odd thing is that base functionality (gps, elevation, etc.) was all good with 4.40 that time ... but updates also bring new functionality ...

So far I really like the fenix 3!

Friday, September 11, 2015

Garmin fenix3

What to do with activities?

One of the cool features the fenix3 provides is the wireless lan module. I really don't wanna miss this. Once you have added your available WLAN networks (I added my home network and my  smartphone wifi tethering hotspot) and wifi auto-upload is enabled on your watch, the fenix3 will periodically try to connect to your network once a new activity has been saved.
Cool ... so after a run upon entering my house the activity is basically already uploaded to Garmin Connect.

Strava and Garmin Connect (GC)

So far so good ... the thing is some years ago I was searching for some online portal to upload my running activities (backup, stats, fun, for whatever reason ...), that time I came along strava.com. One thing they had (way before garmin connect) were the so called 'segments' for runs and bike rides and associated 'koms'. Along with segments also comes a leaderboard.
Long story made short so far I was using strava not garmin connect (GC). In the past I manually uploaded my .fit files to the strava page, of course this will still work but since now everything can automatically appear in GC it makes sense this gets automatically to strava as well.
So how to do this? Simple ... strava provides the option to sync GC ... no big deal ...
Unfortunately it just did not work for me so far ... not sure why.
So I was looking for some other way to download files from GC and upload again to strava.
I found garmin-connect-export and made some minor enhancements. Once you have a .fit file you can use strava api to upload this file and it will appear on your dashboard.
To do so I make use of the node.js strava module, you can find this script and description here.


So my current "workflow" is:
  1. go running/cycling/swimming and return back home (or turn on mobile hotspot)
  2. run gcexport.py -d ~/MyActivities -c 5 -u (optionally provide user/pwd on cmdline)
  3. node strava-file-upload.js  -f ~/MyActivities/895146395.fit

TODO

Automate the steps 2 and 3 from above. Right now my idea is to monitor my wlan traffic and trigger some script once an activity upload is detected. The script should do the GC download and strava upload.

Maybe something like this (where 12:34:56:78:9A:BC is your watch mac address):
tcpdump -i wlan0 ether host 12:34:56:78:9A:BC | awk '{if (some condition) {system("somescript")}}'


And since I have now installed runalyze on my server I want to sync to this one as well ... but should not be a big deal ... especially since runalyze is open source (see also my fork).

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Runalyze

A OpenSource Online Running Diary


Ever wanted to host your own running portal, something similar to strava or garmin connect?
Well ... here we go: runalyze !


Installation (Linux)

Basically you follow the instructions from the website which are as simple as getting the tarball and extract into some directory on your webserver (which you can be reached from a browser of course).
Then load the install.php (script) url from a web browser.
That should be it ... well almost. Runalyze requires an mysql database installation so it's an good idea to check with that first and have some mysql use with enough privileges.
The following grants should be fine for 'someuser':

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, CREATE, ALTER ON `runalyze`.* TO 'someuser'@'localhost'

Later in the install you will have to enter that username.

One problem I had after the install was that the index page wasn't really loading. Looking into the webserver log gave the answer, I had to create a temp dir and set permissions:

# mkdir /tmp/cache.storage.my-servername.de
# chmod  777 /tmp/cache.storage.my-servername.de

Troubleshooting

FIT import not working

I had problems with uploading .fit (garmin) files. The issue here was that you could choose one or more files for upload and basically there were some calender entries but all with zero data. That means all had the same timestamp and no distance, time, ... data was shown.
The problem here was that the perl script  call/perl/fittorunalyze.pl wasn't executed on that file. The reason for this script not being executed were the php safe_mode settings on the server for the runalyze directory.
So in case you have similar issues you might check the php_admin_flag safe_mode.

Monday, May 11, 2015

100 Km Albtrauf für Nepal #100atnepal

100 Km Albtrauf für Nepal #100atnepal


Ein Spendenprojekt von Andreas Bulling und Frank Weller:
https://runance.wordpress.com/2015/05/01/100atnepal/

Die Idee ist es, den Leuten in Nepal zu helfen, der Lauf soll dazu motivieren, die Spendensumme ist natuerlich ansporn die 100 trailigen auf-und-ab Kilometer auch durchzustehen.
Die Aktion ist auf https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de gelistet und Spenden werden direkt an diese Organisation uebermittelt, welche sie, in diesem Fall als Hilfe fuer Nepal, projektgebunden einsetzt.


Spenden kann jeder direkt unter:
https://www.aktion-deutschland-hilft.de/de/aktiv-helfen/interaktiv-helfen/starte-deine-spendenaktion/?hptitle=100km-albtrauf

Also einfach dem Link folgen und ein paar Euro locker machen ;)
p/s: es gibt keinen Mindestbetrag ;) (max. natuerlich auch nicht)

pp/s: Ich werd mal schauen, wie weit ich mit den Beiden mithalten kann und zumindest gemeinsam mit am Start stehen und soweit laufen wie es meine Fitness erlaubt.

UPDATE (20.05.2015): erfolgreich am 15.05 gelaufen ca. 107km in 16 Stunden im Regen und Nebel auf einem tollen Wanderweg mit zwei klasse Typen. Spendenstand 3.321,80!
 Spenden werden weiterhin gerne angenommen auf der Seite von Aktion Deutschland Hilft.

Hier ein Bericht in der Geislinger Zeitung.

Foto: Karsten Dyba


Ambit 3 vs. Fenix 3

My pro and cons list

Sooner or later I might upgrade from my (in the meantime very reliable) Garmin Fenix (1).
So here is my list of pros/cons regarding those two watches.

Update: ... and the winner is ... fenix3. After my old fenix1 had issues with battery charging and lifetime I got a exchange offer from Garmin and now I'm very satisfied with the fenix3

Item
Ambit3
Fenix3
Remark
Price (05/2015) HR Bundle
ca. 350 EUR
ca. 430 EUR


Battery (default GPS tracking)
20 (30h?)
16h
Ambit best vs. good tracking
Charge and use while running
?
yes


Linux?
Openambit?
Usb mass storage


Wlan
-
Yes






































Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Link outdoor wiki

Outdoorwiki

"Das Outdoorwiki ist ein Projekt zum Aufbau eines Nachschlagewerks unter dem Oberbegriff Outdoor. Bisher wurden 437 Artikel aufgenommen. Das Wiki ist dabei eng mit dem Forum forum.outdoorseiten.net verbunden. Gute Autoren, die aus eigener Erfahrung über ein Themengebiet schreiben können, sind stets willkommen!"

http://www.outdoorseiten.net/wiki/