Device Testing iSMARTtrain V4

Our software is gets a little mention in this month’s Silent Sports magazine. Lee Borowski, the writer, contacted us about some problems he was having with his older Polar HRM (Pre S-Series), and I managed to get him quickly up-and-running. You can view the write-up here.

V4.0.8 is released today. This release fixes a couple of issues with Mac OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) where iSMARTtrain had some problems accessing resources on the internet. You might need to update to this release manually by visiting http://ismarttrain.com/download.php, if the ‘Check for Updates’ option doesn’t show that an update is available.

In V4.1.1, a new feature allowing you to delete sections of a session was introduced. This is useful, if, like me, you sometimes forget to stop your Garmin after a ride, and it records the drive home as part of your data.To delete a section, simply select the area in the ‘Data Graph’ view (drag…

Some of our users use one of the many on-line training resources, such as Training Peaks (http://www.trainingpeaks.com), or send data to their coaches for analysing of their training. These generally work by sending Polar format .hrm files of their session data. However, one problem faced by many is that the files won’t be imported correctly,…

In beta release 14, we’ve starting using analytics to get some idea of how our customers are using iSMARTtrain, and the help us plan future enhancements and features, based on what our users are actually using. The setup we’re using is based on Google Anaylitcs. We’re tracking the following: When the app is opened When…

[vimeo 126395032 w=500 h=281] Here’s our new video for iSMARTtrain, which gives a brief overview of how the new version works. It was filmed using a Garmin VIRB Elite and a Canon 100D. The screen captures where done using ScreenFlow 5.0 and the video was edited in iMovie. The opening scenes were filmed earlier with…