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4 days ago
CIQQA-3377

impossible to keep ANT+ sensors paired to the simulator

I'm running Connect IQ Device Simulator 8.2.2 the most recent version on my Mac, and I have a Garmin ANT+ stick.

I'm able to pair ANT+ sensors; but I have no idea how to keep them paired.

Currently the flow goes like this:

- Start datafield simulator

- Open Settings -> Manage Sensors menu

- Search and pair ANT+ sensors (this process kills the running app, but does allow me to pair the sensors).

- But now we have to somehow restart our app because the app is not running; so I kill the simulator and restart it

- Now my app is running but my ANT+ sensors are all in the "Disconnected" state. There is no obvious way to get them to search mode or reconnect without going through the same flow as before which will kill my app; clicking Unpair or RemoveAll will kill the app. Then I can repair the sensors but I will have to reboot the simulator to get my app running again and then it will not be disconnected.

Sometimes, with shear luck, when I restart the simulator my app will be successfully paired with the ANT+ sensor(s). No idea why this sometimes works, it's about 1 in 20. Makes it very cumbersome to test and develop locally. Am i doing something wrong? What is the recommended approach to get your app restarted after the pairing menu kills the app?

renschler
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  • 3 days ago

    No problem!

    Yeah, I agree that the whole user experience is less than ideal. Kinda like how the Simulation > Activity Data dialog in the simulator still causes confusion for devs. At least they finally fixed the issue where you could save a FIT file without saving the activity first, which caused the FIT file to be corrupt.

    > the button to "Reset Simulator" seems to do nothing

    Seems like it deletes ConnectIQ/simulator.ini which contains things like the last window size and position, without closing or restarting the sim itself. I'm not sure if this has any real effect, because as soon as you close the sim, it recreates simulator.ini anyway (and not with defaults).

    Also, if you select the menu item 2 times in a row, it complains that simulator.ini doesn't exist.

    Seems like it would be better to just get rid of that menu item.

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  • 3 days ago

    No problem!

    Yeah, I agree that the whole user experience is less than ideal. Kinda like how the Simulation > Activity Data dialog in the simulator still causes confusion for devs. At least they finally fixed the issue where you could save a FIT file without saving the activity first, which caused the FIT file to be corrupt.

    > the button to "Reset Simulator" seems to do nothing

    Seems like it deletes ConnectIQ/simulator.ini which contains things like the last window size and position, without closing or restarting the sim itself. I'm not sure if this has any real effect, because as soon as you close the sim, it recreates simulator.ini anyway (and not with defaults).

    Also, if you select the menu item 2 times in a row, it complains that simulator.ini doesn't exist.

    Seems like it would be better to just get rid of that menu item.

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