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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 

Known issues:

1. Unable to use Tempe Visualizer or TyreWiz Data Field alongside Smart Bike Lights:
https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/lightnetworklistener-onbikelightupdate-not-called-when-certain-data-fields-are-installed

  • 2 days ago in reply to maca88
    maca88 said:
    Based on the description of how it works, it appears to be the same as using Edge Remote Control, except that instead of double clicking, you need to press and hold.

    Di2 D-Fly button (on each shifter) have 3 options:
    - single click
    - double click
    - click and hold

    And, I can assign function to any of these. But for light there is only two options which I can assign to these buttons:
    - "Lights Change Mode"
    - "Lights on/Off"

    In my configuration, I assign light control on left shifter - single click & double click.
    On the right shifter - I swipe pages forward (single click), swipe pages backward (double click), and return to map view (click and hold)

  • 2 days ago in reply to maca88

    I noticed that now when I search for new sensors, I see something like that:
    Connect IQ SBL HL 52979, Connect IQ SBL TL 43230, etc...

    I guess this is from your app, right?

    • SBL stands for Smart Bike Light.

    • HL stands for Head Light.

    • TL stands for Tail Light.

  • 2 days ago in reply to SimSim

    Yes, that is from the Smart Bike Lights data field. These sensors are only used when the Individual Light Network feature is enabled.

    Due to a CIQ bug that causes the Edge 1040 to reboot, I had to always enable scanning for new sensors, even if the Individual Light Network is not in use.

    Once Garmin fixes this bug, I will update the data field so these sensors will only appear when the Individual Light Network feature is active.