Imports:
Cronometer imports the following items from Garmin:
- Weight
- Body Fat percentage
- Sleep (Sleep Duration, Sleep Score, Recovery, Sleep Stages)
- Exercise
- General Activity (Called 'daily activity' in Cronometer)
- Heart Rate
- Blood Pressure
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
- SpO2
- Respiration Rate
Timeseries Data:
Import full data for the day instead of a single entry per day. When importing the full data, click on the diary entry to see a chart for your day
You must toggle on full time series in your Garmin device settings in order to see this.
- Heart Rate
- HRV
- SpO2
- Respiration Rate
Backfill:
You can backfill up to two years of Garmin data in your Cronometer diary.
Once you have linked your Garmin to Cronometer, you can only backfill the same dates once. Select a date in the past and Cronometer will backfill between this date and today. When selecting a further date in the past, Cronometer will request a backfill from this new date to the existing backfill date.
If you need to backfill the same dates again, please disconnect and reconnect your Garmin account from Cronometer
Troubleshooting
Connection issues
If you are experiencing issues importing data from Garmin into your Cronometer account, please first ensure your device is importing data to your Garmin app. Then refresh your Cronometer diary (pull down to refresh if you are using the mobile app)
If you are still having trouble importing data, please try reconnecting your Garmin app to Cronometer.
1. Log into Garmin Connect
2. Go to Settings > Account Information > Connected Apps
3. Disconnect Cronometer
4. Reconnect to Cronometer. Go to Cronometer > Settings > Devices > Garmin > Connect
General Activity and Exercise:
In Garmin, Resting calories are calculated using your RMR (Resting Metabolic Rate). This is made up of your BMR and your sedentary to light movement calories (RMR = BMR + sedentary to light movement).
To account for both sedentary to light movement calories in Garmin's resting circle and daily activity in Garmin's Active circle, Cronometer uses the Total Calorie value and subtracts your BMR and individual exercises to get Daily Activity.
Daily Activity = Total - Garmin's BMR - Garmin Exercise(s)
Here is an example of what this looks like and where these calories are coming from:
Daily Activity will show as Tracker Activity in your Energy Burned circle.
You might notice a difference between the Total calories in Garmin, and the Energy Burned circle in Cronometer. This is due to there being a difference in how RMR is calculated in Garmin's end and BMR and Sedentary Activity on Cronometer's.
Note: While Cronometer displays your BMR and Baseline Activity Level totals at the beginning of the day, Garmin's Total Calories will top-up throughout the day. Therefore when comparing the calories in both apps, it is best to look a day in the past.
Also note that Garmin includes a resting calorie portion within each exercise.
To account for this, we calculate your BMR or resting portion for the duration of your exercise to. We then subtract this BMR value from the total calories of your Garmin exercise.
As we already track resting calories in Cronometer, we are removing double counting these calories.
Double counting/ incorrect data
Cronometer integrates with:
- Garmin
- Oura
- Fitbit
- Withings
- Whoop
- Polar
- Dexcom
- Ketomojo
- Biosense
- Suunto
- Qardio
- Apple Health
- Google Fit
- Samsung Health.
Please ensure you are only importing data from one device integration. If you have more than one of these integrations connected you may see incorrect values imported into your diary.
Please also note, if you are importing data from an unsupported integration into one of our supported integrations, we cannot guarantee that the dat will be imported without error.