Strava integration officially announced

[MatthewFitbit]

Strava and Fitbit are excited to officially announce their partnership, making it even easier for members to track all day activity and maximize workouts. You can now connect your Fitbit account with Strava, which means your workouts logged in Fitbit will automatically sync to Strava, and your Strava workouts will sync to Fitbit!

Read more about this integration:

Official Fitbit Blog announcement

Related help article

[Collin1000]

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If you’re a Fitbit Surge user, heart rate and GPS-based exercise data, including routes, distance, elevation and pace, will sync to Strava – whether you track a run or use our new biking feature! MobileRun users with any Fitbit device will also be able to view their GPS data in Strava.

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That's excellent news! Great work to everyone on both teams. 

[Smartdrive]

That's good news.

Couple of questions:

Does the HR from the Charge HR also sync to Strava?

Or is the Charge HR not part of this integration?

What do I do when going out for a spin?

I start Strava and Fitbit at the same time or only the Strava as the Charge HR doesn't have GPS?

Thanks!

[straosferik]

Hi Smartdrive, 

to try to answer your question from using the integrations for a few weeks in beta.

The Charge HR syncs to strava, but I can't talk about the HR data since I don't usestrava premium. 

When I go for a ride/spin, I only start my strava app. When all is synced, I have my distance combined with all the rest of the info in my fitbit app. 

I might try the strava premium to see if everything syncs both ways.

Hope this helps,

Eric

[aidan214]

I have premium and it does not sync HR data.

[dmason508]

@MatthewFitbitYou may want to remove the "currently in beta" text from the strava connect page then. 🙂

[Ravencyclist]

When syncing fitbit to strava the HR will sync too. I am not apremium strava user but my HR does sync

[aidan214]

@Ravencyclist are you recording your ride in fitbit or in strava?

[Ravencyclist]

@aidan214 I am recording it with my fitbit. I did just look at a ride I recorded with strava the HR from my surge did not show up on strava but it was added when it was synced to fitbit

[aidan214]

@Ravencyclist The question is about the Charge HR not the Surge. the app for the Charge HR does not have an option to record a cycling activity yet.

[Ravencyclist]

Well then my mistake but let's hope they add that for the charge HR don't see why that was not added at the same time

[aidan214]

@Ravencyclist no worries. 🙂 unfortunately for me this was the exact feature I wanted but couldn't find when I was looking at a wearable. At the time I didn't want to spend the extra money on the Surge but it looks like I may have to...

[Ravencyclist]

@aidan214 I was worried about the extra cost too but it works real well for and the music controls are nice and I brought it right after the biking exercise was added.

[dartkelly]

i linked my strava and fitbit accounts today, how long til my strava activities show up?

will they be retrospective?  or only new activities?

[jiva]

ok I have a charge HR.

If I start a run or cycle from the apple application for fitbit it records the gps and the heart rate and imports it in to strava all together.

If I start the sport from the HR device to time a non moving turbo train session it measures my heart rate but does not sync this at all to strava. I have to then add it manually.

If I record from strava I don't get any heart rate data. 

The best thing would be for Strava to get full integration as they do with garmin and other HR devices. I wait with one leg on my turbo pedal.

Love the fact its all coming, wish we were in a situation where it all just worked and we didn't have to wait for it.

[IronmanJay]

Hi Matthew,

I posted this under another posting earlier.  My integration on both the Fitbit and Strava dashboards is confirmed as active, but the data sync appears to only be in one direction at the moment.

Activities in Fitbit are showing up in Strava properly.

Activities uploaded directly to Strava (via Garmin 500 for cycling) are not syncing to my Fitbit activity feed at all.

I thought perhaps it was just overloaded with API calls for the data, but it's been more than 24 hours.  Is there a way to force a sync of the data, or are there other reports of data transfer being an issue at the moment?

Thanks.

[IronmanJay]

At first I thought you posted "hundreds of KOM's", LOL.  Stuuuuuuud.

[MathiasCA]

Hi guys,

I read that strava and fitbit only sync runs and bike rides. Do you know if they planned on syncing my swimming activites? I am able to enter them on the dashboard but why would I have to if it's already in strava? They could just sync it and I don't have to worry about it.

Thanks,

Mathias

[Marcus1]

Fitbit and Strava show up but I was expecting strava bike rides to show up in fitbit exercise tracking. is that not the case?

[dmason508]

It simply does not sync sometimes. I run with Strava, and right after the run it probably syncs 50% of the time. If the run doesnt sync in the first hr or so, it never does.