Author Topic: support for Forerunner301? (Read 4292 times)

mountainmak · « **on:** February 02, 2005, 07:25:57 PM »

I have used TF w/ my forerunner201 for the last year (demo, then purchased the great tool). Now that my wife has taken ownership of my 201, I decided to upgrade to the 301.

Unfortunately, I cannot download tracks into TF. I am guessing the heartrate data is confusing TopoFusion, and I get corrupted data. It sees the dates, but the trackpoints seem to be invalid.

Any chance on adding support for this device?

I have a painful workaround where I use a utility to pull the tracks out of the FR301, and saves the gpx files, then I can import into topofusion. It would be nice if Topofusion could support the device directly.

Thanks
Brian

Krein · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2005, 09:18:24 PM »

Yep, we're getting many requests from 301 owners to fix this bug. I can't imagine why Garmin wouldn't have made the heart rate addition backwards compatible, but they haven't shown solid design of their serial protocol in the past either.

We do plan on supporting the 301, yes. I will likely need a tester or two to make sure it is working. Thanks for the request.

Krein · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2005, 09:54:21 AM »

In the meantime, Brad Culberson has written a utility that downloads tracks from the 301 to GPX files (readble by TopoFusion):

http://www.bradculberson.com/bradculberson/blog/?itemid=89

He reverse engineered it in 'an hour', but without a unit to test it will not be so easy.

mountainmak · « **Reply #3 on:** February 04, 2005, 09:59:02 AM »

That is the utility I am using to pull the gpx files out and into Topofusion.

It works well, just an additional step . . . It would be nice to have the support native to TF.

Let me know if you need any beta testing support.

Brian

goncst8 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2005, 07:05:19 AM »

I would be glad to help beta test FR 301 compatibility.