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CIQQA-4695

Can’t add sensors to simulator

In simulator, Settings -> Manage sensors -> Add

Nothing shows up. Am using a Garmin ANT+ antenna that I use with my Tacx Neo, or a CooSpo USB dongle. In both cases trying to add a sensor results up in ‘No sensors four. Retry?’ message. Retrying achieves nothing.

Have tried to pair a Garmin HRM dual (ANT+/BLE), a Varia radar/rear light and a Varia front light, can’t add any of them.

Either I’m doing something wrong or the simulator is broken. If it’s the first case then surely some instructions should be supplied, or if it’s the latter case then this really needs fixing ASAP as interacting with the sensors is a pretty basic requirement.

dmbiggs
  • in reply to jim_m_58

    Poor documentation? See my question here:

     Documentation says 'null' is allowed but throws error in VS Code? 

    Probably a newbie question but I'm sure that you can appreciate the frustration.

  • In my particular use case I want to get a list of all paired and active sensors and then get a variety of information from each one for display on a data field. I need to use the simulator to get access to the sensors without the tedium of loading an app to the head unit.

  • I think discussions regarding poor docs and trivial SDK examples etc is going to take us way off topic.

    I can, as you say, playback a FIT file, but I had expected that good quality tooling would allow me to fake any sensor I like, with edge case values where necessary etc without the faff of trying to pair a physical sensor with my PC.

    This is basic stuff for any software development process.

  • Are you trying to simulate data from sensors that are normally paired to the device?  You mentioned a HRM.  If that's the case, record an activity on your Garmin with the sensors you use, and them in the sim, play back the recorded fit file

    Simulation>Activity Data>FIT/GPX playback file

  • in reply to dmbiggs

    Not sure which doc you've been looking at, but there are number of doc.  There's also samples in the SDK, including some that use ANT.  There's also more than a decade worth of posts here that talk about a whole bunch of things.

    And thousands upon thousands of widgets/device apps/DF that have been developed.

    The learning curve for CIQ is MUCH longer than a few days.

    If your sensors support BLE have you looked into trying BluetoothLowEnergy as that's kind of replacing ANT these days.