<story><title>Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/garmin-services-and-production-go-down-after-ransomware-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Their products are designed to work offline. Despite the cloud being down I have full local functionality right now. (Though I can&amp;#x27;t see my history, surprised they don&amp;#x27;t cache that locally).&lt;p&gt;Last year when I did a 9-day canoe trip with no cell phone reception, all of my Garmin gear worked flawlessly (wearables, navigation devices, and their offline map app). Can&amp;#x27;t say the same about my friends iWatches&amp;#x2F;fitbits or even some stuff on various stuff of iPhones and my pixel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>petee</author><text>Garmin Connect app won&amp;#x27;t even show you data sync&amp;#x27;d from a watch unless its online and connected. Simple things like hours slept, or miles walked will not show. Right now it just has a &amp;quot;server maintenance&amp;quot; message, and won&amp;#x27;t show anything that uses a graph, or historical data...nothing is stored locally.&lt;p&gt;On my recent hiking trip, the watch had no problem recording and sync&amp;#x27;ing tracks, but the connect app refused to render any of that data until mobile data was connected again.</text></comment>
<story><title>Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack</title><url>https://www.zdnet.com/article/garmin-services-and-production-go-down-after-ransomware-attack/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>exabrial</author><text>Their products are designed to work offline. Despite the cloud being down I have full local functionality right now. (Though I can&amp;#x27;t see my history, surprised they don&amp;#x27;t cache that locally).&lt;p&gt;Last year when I did a 9-day canoe trip with no cell phone reception, all of my Garmin gear worked flawlessly (wearables, navigation devices, and their offline map app). Can&amp;#x27;t say the same about my friends iWatches&amp;#x2F;fitbits or even some stuff on various stuff of iPhones and my pixel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mjsir911</author><text>I was give a garmin vivofit 3 as a gift and was soured by the fact that I had to create an account and log in &lt;i&gt;to set the time&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been very slowly working on a fork of gadgetbridge[1] to support the vivofit 3 for a while now and can successfuly set the time with no account!&lt;p&gt;1: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mjsir911&amp;#x2F;gadgetbridge&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;mjsir911&amp;#x2F;gadgetbridge&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>