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So with app devs getting caught in the Strava vs Garmin saga, can you at least swiftly add the device_name parameter to the /athlete/activities list?

This way we won’t need to make additional API calls to the /activities endpoint just to check every single activity’s device…

<sigh>

 

Strictly speaking the device_name doesn’t mean anything, it could be a manual upload. The important information would be if the activity was provided by the Garmin API at some point. If I’m not mistaken this information is already provided in the activities list with the external_id that always points to “garmin_ping...” in that case.


That’s not recommended: 

 


The linked post was about Garmin uploads in general, not about the Garmin API.