application for biking/fitness/training

[Marcus Bauer]

hello jens,

should be no problem to integrate fitness sensors. question is if
there are any available that -one way or other- interface with the
USB. A quick search on google seems to indicate that most of them are
proprietary?

On 6/5/08, Jens Meyer <jm2 at jensmeyer.de> wrote:
> Hello all!
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> After some interesting information from some of you about the great
> GPS-chip in the Freerunner before some weeks I considered not to buy an
> external/additional GPS-handheld. Yesterday while surfing I found
> incidentially the Magellan Triton - but after detailed view of the
> Triton-image the "Freerunner" and all his possibilities came into my
> mind immediately... ;-)
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> I would like to use the Freerunner for biking and training-/
> fitness-purposes also. The specialized reference-product for this is
> IMHO the Garmin Edge: https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=160&pID=10885
> Of course there are several things which can the Freerunner do better...
>
> Is there any bicyle-/training-application in combination with GPS under
> active development?
> I found a short thread about this in December 2007 only.
> The project-database shows the follwong projects: "Coach", "Mokosport",
> "GPS 3D Outdoor Navigation" and GPS-based "GPS Sight" and "TangoGPS".
>
> Of course I see the steady releases of the great TangoGPS but from my
> point of view this is only one part of such an application. Are there
> more training-specific applications under development?
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> Some suggestions which features may be integrated in such a solution:
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> 1. GPS
> - show actual position on map
> - load map (online connection)
> - store/use offline map
> - show actual track
> - store tracks, export tracks
> - save waypoints, export waypoints
> - load/show/import tracks
> - import/show waypoints
> - send actual position to server, HTTP-request/SMS
> - show actual speed
> - show average speed
> - show top speed
> - show distance
> - show altitude
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> 2. fitness (with bluetooth heartrate-sensor)
> - show heart rate
> - save heart rate (with time/position)
> - show average heart rate
> - give signal when leaving special heart rate zone
> - clock: show training period
> - stop training period while not moving (auto pause)
> - save laps, show lap-specific information
> - export training-info (track, heart-rate/altitude/speed per trackpoint)
> to external application
> ...
>
> As far as I can see many of these GPS-functions are already possible
> with TangoGPS. So my ingenuous question is how would you develop such an
> application? Add some fitness-functions to TangoGPS (into the main
> application - as external modul if possible?) or create a completely new
> application?
> Is anybody working on that or interested?
>
> Sorry for my nonprofessional questions. I would like to contribute as
> much as I can to such a projekt. But actually I am "only" a
> PHP-developer with Linux-skills - and only an interested reader of the
> C-source...
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
> Kind regards, Jens
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