ANT+ USB Stick and Device Simulator

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I've done some work using ANT+ and a sensor on the simulator. Connect the ANT+ stick via USB, fire up the simulator and run your code.

Should that work on Windows 10? I connected a Garmin USB ANT+ stick, have several sensors active, but the ANT+ Sensors box in the simulator remains blank. I tested the ANT stick with a phone, and it is working. It is listed in Bluetooth & Other Devices as "ANT USBStick2" without further information. The app that is running in the simulator has permissions to use ANT and works correctly on a Fenix 3.
Also tried a Suunto PC Pod ANT stick, and for that Windows complains it can't find drivers, so I am assuming that that the Garmin ANT stick has the correct drivers installed. Reboot of system, reinstall of SDK didn't help.
Is there perhaps an error log somewhere to troubleshoot this?

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

I use the ant stick from a vivofit on a win10 PC and it works fine (but I have ant+ code to use the sensor I'm interested in). Do you have any ant+ code to talk to the sensor?

Are you just looking to simulate data? You can do that with just usings Simulation>fit data in the sim, and get standard sensor data there - "simulate data" has everything", and if you play back a .fit, it depends on what was used when the .fit was recorded.

Bit over 7 years ago

My app detects Chirp sensors, it is functional but bare-bones, so I want to develop it further. Loading it on the Fenix 3 every time is tedious, so I was looking for a solution in the simulator with the ANT stick, because without a Chirp signal the app does basically nothing.
It's encouraging to hear that you have the ANT+ stick working in Windows 10 though. I'm now checking with ANTWare II if the stick receives anything. Antware detects the stick, but it's not receiving anything - but I have to RTFM, probably have to set up the device profiles in Antware first.
BTW, what does your screen look like in the simulator (Settings -> Manage ANT+ Sensors), is there anything listed?

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

Not sure what it's supposed to show, but just tried it and I'ts blank when the app is connected to a sensor.

Bit over 7 years ago

Super! It works! It was very helpful to know that the Manage Sensors window is supposed to be blank, because at first I assumed that there would be a list of available sensors there, and concluded things were not working.
Antware lost the connection to the ANT USB stick when the simulator was running, so the simulator was successfully grabbing the connection to it. Then I tested it with a Tempe sensor.. worked!
With the Chirp, I just had not waited long enough, the Fenix 3 is quicker to find it than the simulator.