Indoor Rowing - data fields

A friend and I both in IT. Have WaterRowers. Tonight I was looking at tracking data to the watch. The best I saw was the Bluetooth plugin module and Erg-IQ app.
I did a bit of digging and found that a Raspberry PI can read data from the S4 monitor and the the PI could send this data via Bluetooth or with module ANT+.
What I haven’t found was a list of the native fields in the activity that can get data from a device. And what that device has to be setup as.
Can anyone on this forum point me in the right direction of documentation?

Many Thanks

0 Luxmoggy over 5 years ago

Think I found the answer the watch doesn’t have the ANT+ FE gym equipment profile. Which is a shame... so no joy...

0 Former Member over 5 years ago in reply to Luxmoggy

Hi, just done the same research, all the watches still do not have a built-in support for Ant+ FE or FE-C devices, last time I checked this is almost 4 years ago, still nothing changed yet.

But you can make your own CIQ data field to get the data out of Ant+ FE. The FE is nothing special but a kind of Ant+ device profile, decode the message is the same with other profiles, and it's easy.

The only down side is, even if you build a CIQ Ant+ FE rower decoding data field, you still cannot get the power/speed/distance/cadence into the native "Row indoor" activity. You can only record it into custom CIQ field, but cannot get it into native, so you cannot get some native statistics like mileage count, or training stress things like that, and you may have problems when you try to export/import to other websites or compare with others.The same applies to ErgIQ, it's data is CIQ data, not native, the difference is ErgIQ has made some reputation, and it's custom fields now could be recognized to platforms like Training peaks.

But if all you want is just to record the data and check later, you don't care if it's native, then it's mostly a big OK.

Because I have a same situation here, now I'm working on a data field like this on my own.

0 Luxmoggy over 5 years ago in reply to Former Member

at the moment I am using SmartRow to record all of the data and write to Strava. Then using the plain indoor row on my watch. This is enough for now as at the moment I just want to keep rowing.