fitplotter

A simple one-page tool to plot parameters recorded in the *.fit file used by Garmin and Suunto.

Starting from 2021-03-03, it also works with *.tkl format (watch models: GPSmaster, navrun-500, ultrasport, etc).

Version online. If you have no own fit files at the moment, you can download them from examples.

From 2021-03-08 you can download *.fit file from your Garmin Connect account, for how to do it read Usage section below.

Check the wrapper for fitplotter is fitalyser - parallel project.

Check GChandler - download automatically new activities from Garnmin Connect to the local storage

Motivation

Garmin device does recording the measured paremeters into a binary .fit file as a function of time and distance. Then, in Garmin Connect you can visualise these metrics in graphs. I found Garmin Connect a bit inconvenient for everyday analysis. For instance, I could not check heart rate efficiency (HRE) (if you do not know read about HRE here and in Russian here) during the run. Then, the data from different days could not be visualised in one plot. Also, it is not convenient in Garmin Connect to see simultaneously a pointer in the plot and on the GPS track. Moreover, Garmin Connect is slow, and it's always better to keep your files in your local storage and have opportunity to check them. And finally, I wanted to learn JS programming.

Features

• Work with any *.fit file (Garmin, Suunto);
• Work with *.tkl (sport watch models: GPSmaster, navrun-500, ultrasport, etc);
• Plot data from different files in one plot;
• Independent y-axes;
• hide/unhide curves by clicking on curve's name in the below legend;
• Synchronization of the plot pointer at the left with the map marker on the right;
• zoom of plot area by mouse click;
• Automatically calculate an average of the plotted parameters in the zoomed area;
• Visualise laps;
• Can remove spikes and make noisy data smooth;
• Calculate breath_rate during the run, if HRV is on in the settings;

Installation

Installation for non-programmers who found this program in github

• click on the green button and download everything as zip file
• unzip
• Double click on index.html

Installation for programmers who found it in github

git clone https://github.com/karaul/fitplotter.git

Usage

Press button "Choose file" and select a *.fit file to analyse. In the Garmin unit, *.fit files are in the folder "activities", which can be seen when you connect Garmin with PC via USB. Or you can download your fit files from Garmin Connect. Also, you can play with *.fit files located for the demonstration purpose in the folder examples

If everything works fine, after you open the .fit file, you will see a graph on the left and map on the right. Few screenshots are in the folder screenshots. Play with droplists: x-axis, y-axis, automode/manual add. Zoom area in the left graph and then see the averaged over the zoomed area on the right map. Click on the legend with different choice in the bottom droplist.

In order to download *.fit file from Garmin Connect account

• Login to Garmin Connect (GC) account;
• Navigate to the activity URL https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/xxxxxxxxxx;
• The latest 10-digits number xxxxxxxxxin the Garmin Connect URL is acitvity ID;
• Type in the fitplotter's URL field the noticed activity ID;
• Click Download, wait a bit and save your zipped activity taken from Garmin Connect into the local folder;
• Unzip the activity in your local folder;
• Click "Choose file" and load the activity as a local file into fitplotter

Russians may also check ЧАВО

Contributors

fit-file-parser by Dimitrios Kanellopoulos. This was taken and modified to get it working with HTML5 but with http static server.

BackFitClientSide by Gordon Moore who demonstrated how to work without a server

Sarah Lucke who explained me how to make an online fitplotter version based on the github repository

Thanks are to CanvasJS and Leaflet libraries for smooth work of the application.

License

MIT license

(c) Evgeny Votyakov aka karaul (about me in Russian), Nicosia, Cyprus, 2021