Intervals.icu doesn't sync "commute" flag from Strava

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Hello,

After connecting my intervals.icu account to Strava, I found that all my historic activities were correctly flagged as a “commute” in intervals.icu, if they were also flagged as such in Strava.

However, any new activities that get added to intervals.icu apparently don’t to pull the “commute” flag from Strava. Hence I have to manually add that flag for each new activity in intervals.icu.

Any ideas how this could be fixed?

Possible explanations I can think of:

  • I think intervals.icu probably adds new activities from Garmin as a primary source, and there’s no commute flag in Garmin files. However, shouldn’t intervals.icu be able to read from the corresponding Strava activity as well, and find the commute flag there?

  • I’m using activityfix.com which is a service that auto-updates my Strava activities based on set rules, i.e. it auto checks the “commute” flag when it detects my pre-set GPS start and end locations. Could this auto-update service be interfering with intervals.icu?

Thanks in advance for looking into this!

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If the activity exists on both Garmin and Strava, Intervals takes the FIT file from Garmin because Strava strips some data (like L/R balance). The activity name comes from Strava because even if you change the name on Garmin Connect, it isn’t getting through. Intervals only gets the original FIT file and thus the original name that is in the file. On Garmin, the same for the commute flag, you can only change that on Garmin Connect and those changes never go to Intervals.
The commute flag can come from Strava but Intervals only polls Strava one time. That is to save API calls which are severely limited by Strava. @david already has a bunch of API saving technology incorporated.
Thus if your service modifies the Strava file after Intervals already pulled in the info, the modification is not coming through…
I hope I have all this explained correctly. If not david will correct me.

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It is as MedTechCD says. Unfortunately Strava don’t provide a web hook call for commute flag updates.

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