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Smart Bike Lights (Data Field) / Bike Lights Control (Widget)

maca88
over 4 years ago

I've made two open source CIQ applications to control ANT+ lights:

- Smart Bike Lights (data field): https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0d9fd828-c932-4470-9c37-fd2828881888 

      Configurator: https://maca88.github.io/SmartBikeLights/ 

- Bike Lights Control (widget): https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fa3c2332-76e3-4ba1-8528-32a0fd617ab1 

     Configurator: https://maca88.github.io/BikeLightsControl/ 

Smart Bike Lights features:
- Automatic light control (Smart mode) based on the configured filters (sunset, sunlight, speed, ...)
- Manual light control (only for Edge devices with a touch screen or devices with CIQ 3.2 and more than 32KB memory)
- Records lights modes that are displayed in Garmin Connect

Bike Lights Control features:
- Manual light control (available to all devices)

Both applications can be installed on the same device, which can be useful for low end devices (e.g. Edge 520) where "Bike Lights Control" can be used to change light modes manually and "Smart Bike Lights" for automatic light control.

Currently registered ANT+ lights:
- Bontrager Ion Pro RT
- Bontrager Ion 200 RT
- Bontrager Flare RT
- Garmin Varia RTL500
- Garmin Varia RTL510
- Garmin Varia RTL515
- Garmin Varia HL500
- Garmin Varia UT800

in case your ANT+ light is not on the list you can help by doing the following:

1. Install Bike Lights Control
2. Pair your bike light with your Garmin device
3. Open the widget:
- Edge with a touch screen: post which numbers are displayed on the buttons and what mode each button represents when pressed
- Other devices: Select the "Light modes" menu and post which numbers are displayed in the menu and what mode each menu item represents when selected

Example for Bontrager Ion Pro RT:


1 -> High steady beam
2 -> Medium steady beam
5 -> Low steady beam
63 -> Day flash
62 -> Night flash

There are some features that could be possible to add in the future, but would require Garmin to add them to the CIQ api. In case you are interested in any of the below features, consider upvoting their feature request thread:

1. Control lights based on the ambient light sensor available on some devices:
https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/ambient-light-sensor-api-access 

  • 6 days ago in reply to Robin_Whittaker

    what do you mean by a "turbo session"?

  • 6 days ago in reply to Robin_Whittaker

    what do you mean by a "turbo session"?

  • 6 days ago in reply to maca88

    Hello I have a "no network" datafield problem with SBL only with the new Edge 1050 and RCT716 -> car behind light on after overtaking light off config.

    This string works well with edge 1040 and RCT716 after the massage light network created. @ 1050 -> no light network created setuo -> "no network" shown at the SBL button.

    ###0,4096:1,1282285566:1:#2,2!1:1:4:0:0I[300]0!:1:0:0:0D=1##3,2:Varia 716:0:16777215!2,:-1,Off:0!1,Solid:4#0::#0:1#123!:1!#0#0#B4440##15#0#0

    Thanks for your help

    Erik

  • 6 days ago in reply to maca88

    Hi  It’s a static bike trainer. I use Zwift but would also like the power on my garmin but don’t want my lights to turn on automatically with that Garmin profile. But does turn on with the other profiles. 

  • 6 days ago in reply to Erik1503

    Update: Problem solved. Yesterday I have  messed up the SBL string 

    Now everything works! :-)

    Thank you

  • 3 days ago in reply to Robin_Whittaker

    Hi, in the configurator here is the "Profile name" filter, but you need to specify on which profile name you want the lights to turn on. Currently it is not possible to negate the filter (e.g. Not equal "ZWIFT" profile).
    I think the easiest way to turn them off would be to just use the light panel by pressing the "Off" button, which would put the lights in the manual mode (M)
    If you don't want to switch between manual and smart mode, then you could try to use the "Start location" filter and put it as a global filter:

    This will prevent turning on the lights until the GPS location is acquired, which should keep the lights off when indoor.

  • 3 days ago in reply to maca88

    Thanks. Will try this last option.  

  • 22 hours ago in reply to Robin_Whittaker

    Why you can’t use separate profile for indoor training without SBL data field? I’m using this scenario and works perfect (will be strange if it won’t workBlush) Road profile with sbl and lights auto On / Indoor without sbl and lights always switched off