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Table of Contents

Sports Activities
Sports Activities page
Sports Activity data synchronization
Selecting, management and viewing
Filtering
Summary statistics
Sports Activity Detail
GPS data

Bands without integrated GPS
Bands with GPS
Integration with other tracking apps

GPX files

Link recorded GPX with the Gadgetbridge Sports Activity

View GPX data
Not supported features
Other related articles

Sports Activities

Some devices (MiBands, Amazfit...) can record "workouts" ("activities", "trainings"...). To create these recorded activities, you must start the recording on the watch/band via the Training/Activity menu. These can then be synchronized with Gadgetbridge. If you do not synchronize these activities for a long time, the device might stop being able to record more data and will show "Your data is full" message (or a similar one).

Use the running man icon in the device card to open the Sports Activities page:

Sports Activities page

Here you can synchronize activities from the device, view them and also delete.

Sports Activity data synchronization

Syncing is always manual and it is not part of the automatic syncing. This allows you to sync tour activities when you need (rather then when the app decides), because it can take quite some time due to their size and the band is not really usable during the sync.

Press the sync floating action button sync button or swipe down. Please note that only one workout will be fetched at a time, you have to sync again to get the next activity and so on.

Gadgetbridge remembers the time of last synced item so if the workout data is still in the band/watch (some devices erase it after transfer), you can re-fetch the data anytime later by using the three dots menu ⋮ → Reset fetch time, setting the time back (to date before this activity happened) and re-syncing.

Selecting, management and viewing

Tapping on an Activity opens up a detail, long tap allows multiselection and further Delete or Share the GPX file, if the activity contains it. You can also share the GPX later from the Sports Activity Detail page.

Filtering

You can use the Filter icon icon
filter to only show listing of activities you like to see.

Summary statistics

You can see statistics calculation for the listed activities as a first item of the list. You can also use the Filter icon icon filter and get statistics for the filtered activities only.

Sports Activity Detail

This shows details about the activity. If GPX is part of the activity, it can be shared. There is a hidden function here: if you long tap on the activity icon, the values will switch from recalculated (for example min/km) to raw, as provided by the band (for example sec/m). This is useful for troubleshooting.

activity detail open with

You can edit Name of the activity by tapping the pencil icon .

GPS data

Bands without integrated GPS

Mi Band 3, Mi Band 4, Mi Band 5, Amazfit Band 5 and Mi Band 6 with the official app provide a feature to start an Activity which combines GPS data (from the phone) with steps/heart rate data (from the band).

Mi Band 4 and above even allow you to start this activity from the band itself and show GPS data on the band (current speed, distance). This is now supported by Gadgetbridge, by enabling the "Send GPS during workout" setting and is enabled for Mi Band 4, Mi Band 5, Amazfit Band 5 and Mi Band 6.

Bands with GPS

Some watches that do have GPS are for example the Amazfit Bip and they do contain GPS track in the recorded Sports activities.

Integration with other tracking apps

If the band/watch does not have it's own GPS (and cannot do it in the way the Mi Bands do as per above), the recorded Activity will not have GPS in the form of GPX file, but you can use external sports tracking app and some dedicated features of Gadgetbridge and the link the GPX to your Sports Activity, see Integrating with Sports Tracking apps.

GPX files

Activity which contain GPS track can export this GPS data in the form of GPX file.

GPX files can be found in in the files folder android/data/nodomain.freyourgadget.gadgetbridge/files along with log files. The prefix is "gadgetbridge-track-" followed by the date/time.

If you like to make a GPS record of your activity, you can also use another sports tracking app and utilize some dedicated Gadgetbridge features that make integration nicer. This allows to utilize the Activity tracking on the watch with some addition details and processing, like number of steps or strokes and so on.

This now offers a new possibility to link a GPX file to a sports activity that did not even allow to have a GPS recording in the first place - like outdoor rowing while using the rowing machine recording or pool swimming (if you have a waterproof phone).

Some activities that you can record without GPS (and make some sense to have GPS linked) include Workout, Outdoor running, Outdoor walking, Treadmill, Freestyle, Indoor cycling, Rowing machine, Pool swimming. These of course must exist in the band/watch, which depends on the watch version.

To link a GPX to an activity, you must either manually copy the GPX file to the files folder or you can use the Share icon in the sports tracking app and use the Gadgetbridge GPX Receiver, which will copy the file to the files folder.

Sharing a file:

This will open Gadgetbridge GPX Receiver, confirm OK.

Existing files overwriting is also indicated:

Link recorded GPX with the Gadgetbridge Sports Activity

In Gadgetbridge, open recorded Sports Activity

Edit GPX track

Select the track

Confirm

GPS track is now added

See a dedicated post on our blog and see also a full manual of Integrating Sports Tracking apps with Gadgetbridge Sports Activities/Workouts on how to set this up.

View GPX data

You can view the GPX file with for example these FLOSS applications:

on mobile:
- OpenTracks
- OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks
- OSM Dashboard Offline for OpenTracks
- FitoTrack (not via sharing icon, but by using import function in FitoTrack)
- Another Android Tracker (seems like more precise representation of time and distance, calculates calories)
- osmAnd+
- Milkha
on desktop:
- GPXSee (shows also heart rate if included in the file)

Not supported features

Please be aware that not every detail of a given workout is currently being displayed in Gadgetbridge but the full workout is retrieved and stored. So as interpreting improves, the displayed data improves too. Interpreting the data is a challenge, if you spot an issue, try to figure out what the correct representation might be and please report.