How to: Why use this project?
- **Free and Fully Open Source**: 100% transparent and open project — modify, distribute extend, and self-host as you wish, with no hidden costs. Just credit the author and support this project as you please!
- **Local Ownership**: Keep a complete, private backup of your Garmin data. The script automatically syncs new data after each Garmin Connect upload — no manual action needed ("set and forget").
- **Full Visualization Freedom**: You're not limited by Garmin’s app. Combine multiple metrics on a single panel, zoom into specific time windows, view raw (non-averaged) data over days or weeks, and build fully custom dashboards.
- **Deeper Insights - All day metrics**: Explore your data to discover patterns, optimize performance, and track trends over longer periods of time. Export for advanced analysis (Python, Excel, etc.) from Grafana, set custom alerts, or create new personalized metrics. This project fetches _almost_ everything from your Garmin watch - not just limited to Activities analytics like most other online platforms
- **No 3rd party data sharing**: You avoid sharing your sensitive health related data with any 3rd party service provider while having a great data visualization platform for free!