Sending sensors data to PC

Hello,
I have a few questions about your product. Does Garmin (any product from their line) allows me connect to the device via ANT+ or bluetooth and send the data from sensors to PC. I want to create desktop application (for hall sports) where for example 5 people connect to the computer via bluetooth or ANT and the data from the sensors will be send to the computer.

So main questions are:
1. Am I able to get the sensors data from watches (or whatever product) to PC via bluetooth or ANT+.

2. Can I for example program some application which will run on the watches and it will be just for communication with the pc. What I mean is to create a custom application just for communication.

Thank you for any answer!

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lustyd over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

Thanks, please feel free to use the source code for whatever you need :) There's also a demo on the Github as well as a video on Youtube to show how it works.

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to lustyd

Thank you lustyd, for your answer.

My posts won t be free and open source soon. Soon I will charge for it.

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

I don t know if someone in the Matlab or Python community is ready to pay for programs or servers. Aren t most of the projects of these communities open-source projects?

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

My posts were free and open source. Soon I will hide them on my Github, following the method of Nils Knieling for livetracking.io

https://github.com/Cyclenerd

If you pay me a lot of money and give me the job to develop an excellent Matlab server, or help me to develop an excellent Matlab server, I'll bring them back.

lustyd over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

Matlab is far from free, and although the Python community produces a lot of code, most useful things will cost something, even if that something is contribution of time and code back to the community. You need to start distinguishing between open source and zero cost. Taking open code and charging for it will not leave you in a good position within that community. Avoiding extremely cheap services to increase profit will leave you with a poor product nobody will pay for. The infrastructure behind my project for example costs pennies to run but will scale to tens of millions of devices without any changes at all. The ML part of my project can be created on a laptop with Python if you have the skills (and I do!), but I used ML Studio as it was quicker and easier so time to value was reduced.

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to lustyd

Good to have several options. Many students have free access to Matlab at universities.There is a home version of Matlab which is affordable, and more and more projects are completely free and open source in Python.

I tested a view times the solution of https://livetracking.io/ as it was still running with the InfluxDB and found it was an excellent solution.

https://www.thisisant.com/forum/viewthread/7074

But not all applications need a server. For those, a solution derived from the solution "ANT+ virtual power" with an ANT+ stick might be sufficient:

https://github.com/dhague/vpower

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

I m looking for highly motivated developers from the MIT, the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, Microsoft, GARMIN, Cyclenerd and IpBike to build a Live Tracking Service for Smart People:

https://www.thisisant.com/forum/viewthread/7074

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

And I m also looking for all other people which are interested in contributing to this project.

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

An option to upload sensor data to a PC is the application IpBike:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipbike&gl=CH

IpBike has the option of custom livetracking settings. I think it should be possible to stream sensor data from IpBike directly to a PC application. But how can the individual sensor data (heart rate, speed, etc) being read out on a PC application from the IpBike data? How are the ANT+ sensor data coded?

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

I m also looking for highly motivated developers from Bitalino Biomedical low-cost toolkit to build a Live Tracking Service for Smart People:

https://forum.bitalino.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=574