It has taken a while, but v5.0.0 is finally here. This is the biggest release since the project began as Statistics for Strava.
A few months ago, Strava announced changes to their API program that affected a lot of developers.
In hindsight I’m really happy that Strava did what they did, Dreeve is now 100% self-hosted and no longer depends on Strava.
For anyone who never heard about Dreeve (or Statistics for Strava):
Dreeve is a self-hosted, open-source dashboard for your sports and fitness data

The biggest changes that v5.0.0 includes:
- Full rebrand, moving away from Strava branding
- Uploading raw FIT, TCX and GPX files (importing your activities from Strava is still fully supported)
- A proper admin panel, moving away from YAML based config files
If you are upgrading from v4, be sure to check the migration guide: https://docs.dreeve.app/#/getting-started/migrating-from-v4
As always, thanks for your feedback and I’m looking forward to more feature requests! Stay fit, stay healthy 💪
- Example: https://demo.dreeve.app/dashboard
- GitHub: https://github.com/dreeveapp/dreeve
- Docs: https://docs.dreeve.app/#/


I’ve just stumbled across this post and it’s serendipitous because I just finished setting up GarminDB in a Docker container. It’s a Python CLI app you can use to download your Garmin stuff locally (which happens to be a bunch of FIT and JSON files).
You don’t have to use Docker ofc, you can also use a venv/pip to set it up somewhere and automate the backup command in any way you want.
It’s a happy coincidence because I was now wondering how to visualize the files. GarminDB also has some
--importand--analyzeoptions that parse the data into SQLite but they’re a bit buggy. Then you can use Jupyter notebook templates to produce something you can look at, but Dreeve might also be interesting (especially if it can monitor the folder where GarminDB dumps the files in read-only mode).Thank you, interesting piece of software … will have to seriously evaluate my workflow and act one day…
Check my other reply, we have a “watch” folder functionality