Garmin & other watches

Tempovi reads everything from Apple Health on your iPhone. Its main target is the Apple Watch: it records the overnight HRV, sleep and heart rate behind the recovery scores, and it is the only watch Tempovi can send a structured workout to.

Do you train with a Garmin or another smartwatch? Then Tempovi works with whatever that watch puts into Apple Health. We are exploring automatic full Garmin sync.

Garmin: what works today

1. Garmin Connect → Apple Health (automatic)

In the Garmin Connect app, go to Settings › Connected Apps › Apple Health and switch on at least Workouts, Distance and Heart rate (plus sleep, steps and weight if you like). From then on Garmin Connect writes each new activity to Apple Health, and Tempovi picks it up like any other workout. It counts toward training load, strain and your weekly volume, and you can open its detail.

Two things to know:

• Garmin only sends activities recorded after you connect; older ones are not back-filled.
• The copy in Apple Health holds the totals and heart rate, not the full detail. A pool swim, for example, arrives without lengths or strokes.

2. FIT file export → import (full detail)

Every Garmin activity can be exported as its original FIT file, which holds everything the watch recorded. For swims, Tempovi reads it on your phone: every length, strokes, stroke type, sets and rests.

1. In Garmin Connect, open the activity › ⋯ › Export Original (or Export to FIT).
2. Share the file to Tempovi (Open in Tempovi), or save it to Files and tap Import a Garmin FIT file at the bottom of Swim progress.

The imported swim replaces the totals-only copy from Apple Health. See Swimming.

3. RunGap (third-party app)

RunGap is a separate app that can sync your Garmin Connect activities into Apple Health automatically, often with more detail than Garmin’s own Apple Health sync. Tempovi reads whatever RunGap writes. Check RunGap’s own documentation for what it currently transfers for your sport.

Exploring: automatic full Garmin sync

A direct link with Garmin Connect would bring every activity in full detail automatically, and could put Tempovi’s daily session on a Garmin watch. We are exploring it, with no date and no promise: it also needs Garmin’s approval (its developer programme). Want it? Tell us on the public tracker — demand decides the order.

What needs an Apple Watch today

• Recovery, HRV and sleep scores. They need overnight HRV and sleep in Apple Health. Check whether your watch writes these to Apple Health; if it doesn’t, those scores stay empty or estimated.
• Sending today’s workout to your wrist and the Tempovi watch app. See Apple Watch.
• Running power and running form metrics, which come from the Apple Watch.