We’re happy to announce new releases of the Communicator Plugin as well as the Communicator Plugin API! The Communicator Plugin is released at version 2.2.1 and the API at version 1.3. The main features we’ve added are full fitness transfers, Mac plugin support, and activity directory and detail reading. This last feature allows retrieval of specific activities and decreases the size of data transfers. More features are described below.
Download Communicator Plugin 2.2.1.0
Check out the new Communicator Plugin API
Communicator Plugin API 1.3 Documentation
New features in the plugin and the API:
- Added the capability to read and write courses, workouts and user profile to fitness devices such as the Edge 305 and Forerunner 305.
- Added the capability to plan trips by writing locations to SD cards without a GPS device present.
- Added the capability to allow a web site to read a directory of fitness activities or courses and then just retrieve details for individual activities.
- Added a property to allow web sites to retrieve fitness data in compressed format.
- Added the ability to retrieve data from the Forerunner 50.
- Fixed exception when plug-in was loaded into a browser embedded in an application.
- Once a user has confirmed to the Garmin Communicator that they trust a particular web site directory, pages at or below that directory level are always trusted.
This version of the API supports the Mac plugin. We’ve also updated the official Garmin Test Page to detect the Mac plugin.
A quick way to try out these features after installing the plugin is to use our Control Demo Page. More feature-specific demos will be added to Garmin Developer documenting how to integrate features into your own site.
We advise web developers to use our versioned API when linking to the code on developer.garmin.com to maintain consistent functionality throughout our new releases.
I’d like to report a minor problem with this code. Running on a Vista box with one of those multi-slot card reader boxes. The box makes drive letters H I J and K available via a USB connection. When the Communicator runs, with a Garmin GPS V attached via a USB/Serial convertor cable, Communicator correctly notes that the Garmin is available, but when it tries to connect, it fails — it tries to communicate with drive H.
The multi-slot box is viewed by the system as a removable device. If I remove it via the icon in the system tray, then Communicator finds the Garmin device and works correctly. My intuition is that Communicator sees a list of devices, but doesn’t look far enough down the list to find the device when it tries to connect and transmit.
Hope you can fix this sometime. Please don’t hesitate to email for details.
Hawk,
Which demo were you using? Most of our demos allow the user to select which device to transfer the data to/from. This issue does come up on the auto-detect first device option, which is discouraged from use (unless your use-case prevents this error) now that all USB mass storage devices are supported.
Diana
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