Fitbit and Strava

[dellvecc]

I am excited about the new partnership between the 2 companies.  I've been riding my bike and purchased a Charge HR to monitor my heart rate.  With the new announcement, Strava is ONLY going to work with the Surge?  Any plans to include the Charge HR?

BTW, love my Fitbit Charge HR!

[SilviaFitbit]

@dellvecc It's great to have you here! You can connect Strava with your Fitbit account, it doesn't matter which Fitbit you're using. You can learn more about it here. 

I have the Charge HR and I was able to link both accounts 

[dellvecc]

I just don't see what info is shared among both apps?

I'm looking on the sites, and it looks the same before the sharing.

[SilviaFitbit]

@dellvecc Thanks! Fitbit activities will show in Strava and all your friends will see it. Strava will sync runs and rides tracked to Fitbit. You can learn more about it here.  

[BryBub]

So, Charge HR, the Heart Rate potion, when exporting a bike ride from Strava to Fitbit, works how?

[dellvecc]

I've been unable to get the heart monitor to work on Strava.  Is an update coming to both apps?

[SilviaFitbit]

@BryBub @dellvecc Currently, it's not possible to download the heart rate data into the Strava. Check this post to know which information is going to sync. 

[BryBub]

Soooooo why do moderators here always send me to another link? After answering maybe part of my question? I'm just curious really. Are moderators not Fitbit employees, so maybe they don't know the answers? I'm confused. It seems near impossible to get straight up answers... Googles of forums all running in circles asking the same questions. Feels like a labyrinth. lol 🙂

[SilviaFitbit]

@BryBub I want to offer you an apology for this. Moderators are from Fitbit, when we send you to another post or antoher link; the main purpose of this is that you can learn more about other things and make clearer the post. Thanks for your feedback, your voice is always being heard 

[lee_w]

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@Silvia wrote:

@dellvecc Thanks! Fitbit activities will show in Strava and all your friends will see it. Strava will sync runs and rides tracked to Fitbit. You can learn more about it here.  

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Whilst syncing runs and rides is working great, its a shame it syncs walks as well. It would be great if Fitbit allowed us to select which activities to sync.

[SilviaFitbit]

@lee_w It's great to have you here! Thanks for the suggestion. I would love to see it posted in our Ideas Board because these suggestions are viewed directly by our engineers and developers and the best of this is that people can vote for them. 

Hope to see your ideas on the board soon 

[Alex_UK]

Hi I think this combination has great potential. I use fitbit and strava everyday. I don't see any shared data yet but please do it! I have charge HR btw

[minionaire]

I have the Fitbit Surge and the STrava integration worked beautifully for the first 3 days with all my rides recorded on the Surge and syncing over to Strava. However for the past 3 days none of my 4 rides have sync'd over to Strava. 

Anyone else having this issue and/or a solution?

[dellvecc]

Does it show your heart rate during your rides on Strava?

I have the HR, ans I don't see anything different in Strava.

[e2rd]

Sync from fitbit surge to strava works fine with one single problem. My cycling time on fitbit surge was 1hour and 36 minutes and excercise on strava shows 1 hour 57 minutes and according to that all other values like speed avg etc. is different too. Time on fitbit was correct.

During my workout i pressed pause on my stop to fill the bottle and then start again. Why is this happening ?  I tried once also using both Strava and Surge and results were almost the same but synced  data is always different.

BTW: On my HTC phone fitbit excercise preview always cause application to crash but on my pc works fine.

[Alishio]

My Fitbit to Strava integration worked great for two months. Recently it just stopped. After reviewing all of the knowdlge and community articles on both Fitbit and Strava it told me to revoke on both ends and reconnect. Now when I try to reconnect from the Fitbit.strava link it just logs me in to Strava login page but nowhere does it allow me to re-integration the apps. All my old rides are in my Strava account but since I revoked with no way to relink I'm lost. Any ideas ?

[SilviaFitbit]

@Alishio Thanks for stopping by! I recommend to try this procedure to link the accounts again. 

Let me know how it goes. 

[mdawso2]

I don't understand this either.  I have my fitbit and strava synced.  I just went on a long bike ride, but my fit thinks I walked 18,000 steps.  Shouldn't strava tell fitbit that I was on a bike ride, and then fitbit retroactively adjust my steps bases on my start and stop time?

I just don't see what info is being shared/synced.  

I have a charge HR by the way

[Heybales]

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@mdawso2 wrote:

I don't understand this either.  I have my fitbit and strava synced.  I just went on a long bike ride, but my fit thinks I walked 18,000 steps.  Shouldn't strava tell fitbit that I was on a bike ride, and then fitbit retroactively adjust my steps bases on my start and stop time?

I just don't see what info is being shared/synced.  

I have a charge HR by the way

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No - there is no workout coming back over to Fitbit.

Fitbit data is going over to Strava. Did you correct Strava and tell it it was biking, or correct the distance since that would be wrong based on steps too. Unless you used Fitbit GPS on phone.

I'm not sure if you correct it there if it will come back across as a workout with correct biking distance.

Steps won't be change though, why should they, that wasn't a step based workout such that calorie burn was based on steps anyway - it was based on HR.

[Heybales]

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@e2rd wrote:

Sync from fitbit surge to strava works fine with one single problem. My cycling time on fitbit surge was 1hour and 36 minutes and excercise on strava shows 1 hour 57 minutes and according to that all other values like speed avg etc. is different too. Time on fitbit was correct.

During my workout i pressed pause on my stop to fill the bottle and then start again. Why is this happening ?  I tried once also using both Strava and Surge and results were almost the same but synced  data is always different.

BTW: On my HTC phone fitbit excercise preview always cause application to crash but on my pc works fine.

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Because while the stopwatch on Fitbit may have paused - the workout actually didn't and other data still recorded.

Opposite effect on Garmin devices if you have auto-pause enabled.

The total workout of moving time is say 120 min, but of course total time taken up by the workout is 130 min including stoplight, water, sweat wipe, ect.

If you were to manually log that on Fitbit to replace incorrect calorie estimate - you'd have to log the 130 min duration for whatever total calorie burn you got from Garmin.

Pause button on Garmin works correctly to - workout appears to be 120 min, Strava receives workout of 120 min.

Fitbit data though obviously still spans 130 min.

You'll never get it to workout correctly automatically - just be prepared to correct somewhere.

Just remember - you want the duration as reported to Fitbit to actually include the whole time of the workout - or you'll leave some higher calorie burn at the end that should have been replaced. Not doubled of course, but higher than it should be probably.

Like if you started 3 hr ride at 8 am, stopped for breakfast at 9:30 for 1 hr, and finished at 12 noon.

4 hr total time - 3 hr ride time.

If you manually logged, or a workout synced over to Fitbit, starting at correct 8am, for correct duration of 3hrs - you'd have the time of 11-12 with whatever calorie burn Fitbit saw, instead of replacing it, but your sit-down time would have higher calorie burn than reality.

So even though you had 1 hr sitting down, log the workout as 4 hrs wherever it's going to sync to Fitbit from so the calorie replacement is correct.

Or log 2 workouts with the hour sitting being skipped.