Comment by Lhd

Which "Using an unofficial Garmin MCP" were you using? and which problems you encountered that made you move on?

I've been using taxuspt/garmin_mcp[0] via claude desktop and recommend it. It reads my data and it is able to create and schedule workouts. I've decided to fork it because it was not able to create the type of workouts that i wanted (swim, bike, run and gym) and it also pushes into my garmin calendar which syncs directly to the watch/gps unit).

Claude's official strava connector[1] is able to read the data (garmin -> strava -> claude), yes. But my point of view for strava is that it's not really meant to be for workouts - it's a social media to give/receive kudos and see what your friends and 'influencers' are doing (i'm not really interested). All the metrics of cadence/vertical oscilation/sleep, for example, are not synced to strava and therefore not accessible.

[0]: https://github.com/taxuspt/garmin_mcp [1]: https://claude.com/marketplace/connectors/strava