Sensor battery status now in GC inc. non Garmin

The question is not about millicelsius. A Tempe measures not the air temperature if you dont hack, but something else, that of your body, that of its own case heated up by the sun etc.

An error of 5-6 degrees is quite usual in the summer, or even more. So practically a Tempe is useless without hacking.

But let me ask it like “what would be its primary benefit if it were accurate”?

For me to find out what extremes I met, like it was so cold in a valley where I made any sport activity that the temp went down to minus 4 degrees. Or hell I could run for an hour, even if the temp was over 35 degrees.

Btw there are some complex ciq datafields which uses Tempe data to finetune the calculation of your efforts made, you know like your Stryd (or some cycling power meter) says 230 watt, but it is not the same 230 watt in 35 degrees and in 20 degrees.

Sounds like quiet an effort to get some Garmin Badge :)

What app are you using on android. I used an app called ambitemp, but it stopped working after android 9 or 10. I've would love to have a working app for tempe again.

I am still using Ambitemp on an old phone that does nothing else than being an Ambitemp display and logger. In the past, I have also used IPBike just for logging the temperature. If I were any good at programming I'd make something myself. Ambitemp is adequate but not awesome.

Discovered now that ant+ isn't supported on android 11 and above, that's a shame. Will see if I have some old phone hanging around and use it as a display Thanks for answering.

I'm crazy about collecting data that's the only reason . As for the second one, there was a promo code, and it would work from certain amount so I decided to get another one for my second shoes.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S10+ currently on Android 12, and its built-in ANT capabilities works just as well it did on Android 9, 10 & 11 before it:

That is strange. From what I found a lot of people lost the built in ANT+ of their phone when updating to Android 11. I got a S21 and here is what the ANT test says.

I have a Note 20 Ultra 5G and a Tab S7+. Neither one has ever supported ANT+ out of the box or since. I assume it was dropped as a cost saving measure as most people can scrape by with Bluetooth. I'm sad to see it go.

There are ANT+ dongles that can work with a phone, but most phones have no ANT+ stack implemented. For a while there was a 10 $ app that implemented the ANT+ stack, not sure if that is still around or if it can work on any phone. Such a shame ANT+ seems to be on the way out. It is more energy efficient than BLE, multiple devices can listen to a sensor always, and there are never issues with sensors going in deep sleep mode during a paused activity and not resuming quickly enough. In my experience, ANT+ is hassle free and has really good battery life.