Recently I set up a private and self-hosted exercise tracker, like Strava but without sharing my data with them and their 700 advertising partners.

OpenTracks is a sport tracking application that completely respects your privacy, and it’s so private, that it doesn’t even request Internet permissions, and can’t upload to your Google Drive either.

FitTrackee is a simple self-hosted, web-based, workout/activity tracker.

OpenTracks can export activity records to a file, and FitTrackee can import them, but how can we automatically get the record from one to the other? This post is about doing that with Tasker.

Task

Tasker is a total automation app for Android and here I’ll share the task I wrote to solve this problem. It watches a folder for the activity record, then uploads it over HTTPS.

First, set OpenTracks to export a track to storage after recording is finished. For where, use a folder named Opentracks/ on the root of the filesystem.

Then, import this profile and task.

Then:

1. Change the URL to that of your FitTrackee instance in 3 places.
2. Change the login email and password to that of your FitTrackee user.
3. If needed, change the folder the profile watches.

Finally, try recording an activity with OpenTracks and opening FitTrackee.