Comments on: Garmin Forerunner 305/405 musings

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:20:20 +0000

Hi,

just now I can download the tracks to files. I found some problem if you have a lot of tracks in the clock. I had to delete old tracks and try again. Finally the procedure work without problems.

Now I what to upload a track to the clock. Somebody know how I could do it? Can I do it with gant-master?

Thanks in advance.
Ricardo

By: jens

jens — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:29:04 +0000

@axel: maybe your device isn’t set to pair with your computer. you have to enable this on the watch under: Menu-> Settings -> ANT+ Sport -> Computer -> Pairing: on.

By: axel

axel — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:58:02 +0000

When I try to pair I get this message
” xxx@CQ60:/tmp/gant-master$ sudo ./gant -f paul -a auth405
channel open, waiting for broadcast
reading auth data from auth405
Unhandled response event 06
Unhandled response event 06
Unhandled response event 01

What do I do wrong?

By: Colm O'Neill

Colm O'Neill — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:36:42 +0000

Just switched to Ubuntu from Windows so I’m a total Linux newbie! Good to see there’s so many people trying to solve to Garmin 405 problems. I’m going to (try) to follow the advice above and see what happens.

Thanks guys. Will let you know how I get on…

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:54:39 +0000

For some reason, when I try and upload one of the .TCX files from gant to Garmin Connect, I get an error. I can successfully upload a gpx file from Sporttracks, but that doesn’t have heart rate support. Anyone have or solve this problem?

By: Stephen O'Neill

Stephen O'Neill — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:00:37 +0000

@Greg – thanks for that, I have updated the instructions. It does appear, actually, that the pre-built binary exists in that archive I said to download. That makes me wonder whether building it ourselves is even necessary. Can’t hurt I suppose!

By: Stephen O'Neill

Stephen O'Neill — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 06:57:20 +0000

That’s a shame Kasper I did see one segfault but kept retrying and all was well. Not seen one since the first time I did it.

The only couple of things I can think of are really obvious so aren’t very helpful: are there definitely tracks on the watch to download? The track files become .TCX files in your working directory – have they not appeared?

You can turn on more debugging with the ‘D’ flag – that’s mentioned in the README file. Maybe that can give some clues.

Hopefully someone can help you out Kasper!

By: Kasper

Kasper — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 07:51:38 +0000

Thanks for all the work out there, but I keep getting a segmentation fault. Garmin 405 says, ‘transferring data’, then ‘transfer complete’, while it really hasn’t transfered anything.

Sometimes it also says ‘pair with kasper?’, I press enter and it immediately resets.

channel open, waiting for broadcast
pairing, using id 270c1f83
sending pair data for dev kasper
storing auth data in auth405
resetting

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:57:23 +0000

No worries Stephen,

A bit more playing around revealed run:
make clean

and then make.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 23:53:26 +0000

Stephen,

Just wondering if you can eloborate on the Ubuntu instructions any further.

I’m up to the ‘make’ command, and just get this response:
make: Nothing to be done for `all’.

Do I need to alter permissions anywhere?

For info: Using Ubuntu 9.04