Hitrava2Garmin

Why the need of this?

I had been using Huawei bands and watches for quire some time. I felt locked down when not being able to view my training activities online, and not being able to export them. Glanced at Garmin, and when I had some issues with my latest Huawei watch i decided to move to the Garmin ecosystem.

Now came the issue, there was no way of converting Huawei activities to Garmin! After some googling i found Hitrava that did just that. Almost at least. With Hitrava I could export all my activities to a format that could be imported to Strava and from there export to a Garmin-readable format. A lot of converting to do, but it worked. After converting 1000 activities the work was done.

When a friend of mine wanted to do the exact same journey, I wanted to find a better way to handle this.

Special thanks to Hitrava!

Without Hitrava I wouldnt have been able to export my Huawei data at all!

Intro

Hitrava2Garmin changes the Hitrava export so that the activities can be imported into Garmin directly. No need to import them to Strava first. Since Strava have currently a 100 activity import / day limit, importing many activities will cost a lot of hours and frustration.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Installation
• How2Use
• What the script does
• Ready to import

Features

Main reasons for Hitrava converted files not being able to import directly to Garmin Connect:

1. Missing correct header declarations
2. Activity names
3. Timeformat issues
4. If missing heartratebpm at every trackpoint, the heartrate graph will not be shown correctly

Installation

All you need is the Python-script and 2 subdolders.
ConvertedFiles
UniqueFiles
Place the Hitrava files in the same directory as the Python-script

Based on filenaming:
Hitrack_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS_ID.tcx
Example:
HiTrack_20190520_010556_001.tcx
Developed and tested on Python: Python 3.11.4

Usage

To run application: (in the same directory as the Hitrava export files are located)

python HitravaConvert2Garmin.py

WhatItDoes

First of all, the script does nothing to the original files.

1. Identifies the unique files (if there are more than 1 file for each activity) and copies the files to subfolder "UniqueFiles"

2. Corrects the header-information in the files
   Hitrava: (import to garmin with this info does not work)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<TrainingCenterDatabase
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2 http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabasev2.xsd"    xmlns="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:ns3="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/ActivityExtension/v2">

Garmin Connect: (this is according to Garmin TCX schema and is OK to import with)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<TrainingCenterDatabase
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2 http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabasev2.xsd"
xmlns:ns5="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/ActivityGoals/v1"
xmlns:ns3="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/ActivityExtension/v2"
xmlns:ns2="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/UserProfile/v2"
xmlns="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/TrainingCenterDatabase/v2"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:ns4="http://www.garmin.com/xmlschemas/ProfileExtension/v1">

3. Updating Activity names
   Seems like Garmin Connect needs to have the activities in Capital starting letter.
   Activities will be imported, but classified as "other" and not the actual activity
   

• Not "OK" :

<Activity Sport="biking">

• OK:

<Activity Sport="Biking">

4. Correcting timezone issues
   Garmin will not import activities with a timeformat other than:
   2025-03-28T15:22:38.000Z
   example:
   From: 2025-01-08T16:54:38.000+0100
   To: 2025-01-08T15:54:38.000z
   

5. Adds missing HeartRateBMPs in every
   Adds missing HeartRateBMP if missing from a Trackpoint(if missing, the script copies the latest value)
   Also related to the HeartRate-graph in Garmin Connect, i added one extension, since this is believed to be present for the graph to be created.

<Extensions>
	<ns3:TPX/>
</Extensions>

Ready2Go

Activities are now ready to import to Garmin Connect