Log and Warning when loosing expensive sensors

Former Member
Former Member
hi,


Loosing expensive sensors is a fact of live.
Being able to retrace the point where the sensor was lost or last used.

For example the Garmin Varia Radar Tail Light RTL510 has only two entry points in Garmin's FIT file.
Being at the start end end of the bike ride, nothing in between.



Are you interested in an additional feature for your CIQ app, widget or datafield.


The idea started in this Garmin forum thread from user [USER="1475886"]bkong[/USER] .
into-sports time-of-last-sensor-connection

An option to make the user be aware of ANT+ connection loss when for example the sensor is lost during the workout.

The user lost his VARIA during the bike ride.
Being expensive sensors it would be nice to have some notice being lost.

So there is a need to know time and distance where the ANT+/BLE connection was lost, being able to find the lost device.

One could provide in the setup a field for sensor ID being looked out for.
1.One could make a visible warning on the Garmin screen.
2.One could log a connection value in CIQ developer data in the fit file.
3.One could doing both 1 and 2 ;-)

Same question was asked at dev [USER="498369"]camillo.vezzoli[/USER] .

Happy developing


  • Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought if you connect a sensor "natively" (the built-in way), then apps can't see that sensor.
  • Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought if you connect a sensor "natively" (the built-in way), then apps can't see that sensor.


    From my limited reading (I just started making my own CIQ datafield this weekend) that is be correct. My current thinking is to use Toybox::AntPlus::BikeRadar to poll the device state for logging and to generate alerts when the device state is dead.