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IpSensorMan at Google Play market analyse
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Description
IpSensorMan Manages talking to various sporting sensors using ANT+™ or Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces. Using a separate app allows multiple client apps to access to the sensors simultaneously. Most of the hard work for talking to the various standard sensors is provided by the app simplifying the client apps. Simplified information is broadcast to any registered application that wants access to the sensor data.This product is ANT+ certified and complies with the following specified ANT+ device profiles:Bicycle speed dataBicycle cadence dataBicycle combined speed and cadence dataBicycle power dataHeart rate dataThe following are supported but have not gone though certification yet.Stride Based Speed and Distance (footpod)Environment (Garmin Tempe)Running dynamicsBike RadarFitness equipment control (FEC). Trainer control.ShiftingSuspensionDropper postRemote controlMuscle OxygenBike LightPolar Wearlink®+ transmitter with Bluetooth® and Zephyr HxM BlueTooth Heart rate monitor support added with 1.2.6Bluetooth Low Energy / Bluetooth Smart support for the following. Heart rateBike speed and cadenceBike power (Only a single sensor not dual pedals transmitting independently)Running speed and cadence (footpod) Stryd running power.IpSensorMan should recognize other ANT+ sensor types although full decoding support is not currently implemented.Currently the applications using IpSensorMan are: IpBike an ANT+ sensor based bike computer. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipbikeIpPeloton an app to show details from other ANT+ heart rate monitors and power sensors. So you can easily compare your effort with your riding companions effort. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ippelotonIpWatts an application to log the data from multiple power sensors simultaniously with a single timebase. Also logs a single Speed, Cadence and Heart rate source. The app you need if you want to compare Power meters.https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipwattsOther applications may well be added.If you are a developer and want to use this interface then please feel free to email me.Permission reasons.Network communications - full Internet access. The crash reporting system want this. Also I collect usage stats via flurry.com. I am really interested what phones it is installed on and what ANT+ sensors it is used with. You can switch this off from the options.Hardware controls - ANT radio access. I wont be able to do much without this one.System tools - modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping. There is an option to keep ANT active when the phone is in airplane mode which us useful for saving power, this needs to modify the system settings. You still need to do the airplane mode entry yourself. This feature needs at least version 2.6 of ANT Radio Services. If we are actively monitoring the ant radio the phone will not sleep, the screen may still go off though.Bluetooth - in order to support the Bluetooth Heart rate monitors.Location - is needed to be able to access Bluetooth low energy sensors. This is because theoretically you can then see beacons which can be used to get your location. I do not have any Beacon support.For details on USB Host mode and using an ANT usb stick please seehttp://www.iforpowell.com/cms/index.php?page=usb-ant-stickbug fixes from crash reports.
Reviews
Bought a BBB bike cadence sensor, and it just works on ipsensorman, while some nifty Garmin refuses to see the BBB (and does see the Garmin cadence sensors).
It is pretty unfair & rude; & bordering on invasion of privacy, by not making it an easy choice to download, keep, or delete, like all other apps on the market. Not kool android. Same as above.
A great tool with ipbike. Way ahead of the mainstream.
I'm not quite sure what this app made for, despite connect to ant+ sensor, i was thinking it can allow me connect my sensor to multiple apps, but it didn't, everytime I start ant service, it never works in the background so it can provide services for multiple apps
App mistakenly recognizes the very ubiquitous Panobike Bluetooth Speed and Cadence sensor as a Panobike HEART RATE sensor. There is no heart rate sensor anywhere.
Have an LG G2. Everything worked great except when pedaling, the speedometer would show half the speed of the actual speed. It would go back to normal I'd I stopped pedaling. All else seems to be accurate. Hoping software update will fix this.
