Peter Gamma (Physiologist & Director) Meditation Research Institute Switzerland (MRIS)

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How To Import Sensor Data from a Garmin Watch to Microsoft Access

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Last Updated on October 22, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org

  • After all, we are coming back to the Garmin watch
  • Accessing data from a Garmin watch, especially in real-time is very difficult, we suppose this is because Garmin does want it that way
  • But Garmin cannot develop special watches for every application
  • The Garmin watch is one of the devices which coders have spent a lot of time with it
  • we as non-coders as well
  • The Garmin watch has a lot of physiological parameters
  • Only view have the accuracy of research projects
  • We are currently evaluating this approach:
  • This approach is easy, but also time consuming for non-coders
  • once in a .csv file, data can easily be imported into Microsoft Access.
  • There is the Open Source Database LibreOffice Base
  • But the Microsoft Access .csv file importer is better. Fit files converted to .csv can easily be imported.
  • The Microsoft Access imported .csv have an excellent structure and are very well labelled after import.
  • Microsoft Access Standalone is 165 USD:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/p/access/cfq7ttc0hhmx?activetab=pivot:overviewtab