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I updated my PowerTap hub today to the new firmware which supports ANT+ Sport, which meant I’m able to use it with my Garmin Edge 705. The update was fairly painless – the updater cost £75 from cyclepowermeters.com. It was simply a case of removing the cover of the PowerTap hub and pulling out the…

Just a quick heads-up – for the moment, don’t upgrade from Garmin ANT Agent to Garmin Express. It looks like Garmin Express doesn’t keep a local copy of the files it downloads for your device, so there’s no data for iSMARTtrain to pick up. I’m investigating this further, and will hopefully have a solution soon.

Quite often, you’ll find there’s a spike in your downloaded data where your HR jumps to up 220 or down to zero. Usually, this is caused by interference from power lines or from passing cars. The data can be edited in iSMARTtrain by first clicking on the graph so that a vertical line is shown…

V4.0 Beta 2 is out today. Fixes included: Fixed crash adding session manually Reduced memory usage importing .csv files Reduced memory usage importing iSMARTtrain V3.0 files Fixed validation error importing .tcx files or downloading from Garmin Edge 605 or 705 Now attempts to ‘guess’ the data of a PowerTap csv file from the filename Added…

We’ve just released the first beta of V2.0.2 which has SonicLink support for the S410, S510 & S520 HRMs. Download from http://www.otag.co.uk/iSMARTtrain/Beta/ Hopefully, it should be a short step from support for these devices to supporting the new Polar CS100 & CS200.

Beta 17’s been released today to fix a problem with SonicLink downloads which haven’t been working for most of the V3.0.6 beta releases, and still wasn’t working as should in Beta 16. Download from the usual place – http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/ As usual, any problems, etc., email me or post in our forums.