BB200 - GPS Failures?

[macinblack]

BTW, for those of you who care about elevation on Strava, you can make strava read the barometer data from an Etrex by editing the gpox file - just find "Etrex", then change it to "Etrex with Barometer" and save it. Upload that and you've get the missing metres of climbing.

Sorry for being dense but what exactly do you do here?

[johnnystorm]

BTW, for those of you who care about elevation on Strava, you can make strava read the barometer data from an Etrex by editing the gpox file - just find "Etrex", then change it to "Etrex with Barometer" and save it. Upload that and you've get the missing metres of climbing.

Sorry for being dense but what exactly do you do here?

I'm assuming you open up the gpx file in notepad, or a similar basic text editor and find the code that states the device and then edit it, re-cover then upload.

[macinblack]

Ah,I see. Thanks!

[DrMekon]

Yes, so where I have an etrex 30, the file includes

creator="eTrex 30"

Changing that to

creator="eTrex 30 with Barometer"

makes Strava read the elevation data.

I edit in Notepad or Notepad++

[macinblack]

Had a go, seems to have worked - Cheers!

[Ian]

Yes, so where I have an etrex 30, the file includes

creator="eTrex 30"

Changing that to

creator="eTrex 30 with Barometer"

makes Strava read the elevation data.

I edit in Notepad or Notepad++

Apologies for the thread resurrection. I've been trying to apply the above amendment to my GPX file before upload to Strava. By applying the above text into the file Strava gives me an error of "improperly formatted data". Editing in Text Edit on Mac, the header of the file looks like this:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?><gpx xmlns="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1" xmlns:gpxx="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensions/v3" xmlns:gpxtrkx="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackStatsExtension/v1" xmlns:wptx1="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/WaypointExtension/v1" xmlns:gpxtpx="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackPointExtension/v1" creator="eTrex 30 with barometer” version="1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1 http://www.topografix.com/GPX/1/1/gpx.xsd http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensions/v3 http://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/GpxExtensionsv3.xsd http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackStatsExtension/v1 http://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackStatsExtension.xsd http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/WaypointExtension/v1 http://www8.garmin.com/xmlschemas/WaypointExtensionv1.xsd http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackPointExtension/v1 http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrackPointExtensionv1.xsd"><metadata><link href="http://www.garmin.com"><text>Garmin International</text></link><time>2016-01-05T19:07:41Z</time></metadata><trk><name>Current Track: 05 JAN 2016 09:29</name><extensions><gpxx:TrackExtension><gpxx:DisplayColor>Blue</gpxx:DisplayColor></gpxx:TrackExtension><gpxtrkx:TrackStatsExtension><gpxtrkx:Distance>50387</gpxtrkx:Distance><gpxtrkx:TotalElapsedTime>34718</gpxtrkx:TotalElapsedTime><gpxtrkx:MovingTime>14168</gpxtrkx:MovingTime><gpxtrkx:StoppedTime>2869</gpxtrkx:StoppedTime><gpxtrkx:MovingSpeed>4</gpxtrkx:MovingSpeed><gpxtrkx:MaxSpeed>15</gpxtrkx:MaxSpeed><gpxtrkx:MaxElevation>519</gpxtrkx:MaxElevation><gpxtrkx:MinElevation>118</gpxtrkx:MinElevation><gpxtrkx:Ascent>1211</gpxtrkx:Ascent><gpxtrkx:Descent>1214</gpxtrkx:Descent><gpxtrkx:AvgAscentRate>0</gpxtrkx:AvgAscentRate><gpxtrkx:MaxAscentRate>0</gpxtrkx:MaxAscentRate><gpxtrkx:AvgDescentRate>0</gpxtrkx:AvgDescentRate><gpxtrkx:MaxDescentRate>-2</gpxtrkx:MaxDescentRate></gpxtrkx:TrackStatsExtension></extensions>

What am I doing wrong?

Now that I've edited the GPX, and I can't upload even after changing creator back to "Etrex 30"

[SRS]

I suspect it is just the different close quote mark

i.e.
creator="eTrex 30 with barometer”

Try changing that to
creator="eTrex 30 with barometer"

[Ian]

Well spotted that man!

Weird thing is, I didn't edit the quote mark - as soon as I inserted the with Barometer part, it changed the quote mark to a slanted one. Copy/ paste a straight one from the next bit seems to work and Strava accepted it. Saved 130m ascent that would otherwise have been lost in the Strava "corrected" elevation value.