Project ANT – Live ANT+ Data on Your Mac

The weather was fine enough at the weekend to get out on my bike for the first ride with the SRMs fitted. It was meant to be a ride for comparing the accuracy of the Polar Power system with the SRMs, but I realised just as I was about to set off that I hadn’t…

I’ve recently got my hands on Polar’s new RS300x model, with an aim to integrating Polar’s new FlowLink interface into iSMARTtrain, starting the with RS300x. The RS300x is functionally pretty much the same as the RS200 – it provides average heart rate & speed for each session and each lap, as well as time in…

Wow… nearly a month since our last post. Anyway, when I got my Polar S625x in August last year, it came with Polar’s new WearLink transmitter, which has a far smaller plastic electronics module that their previous designs. The skin sensors are integrated into the strap. This makes it far more comfortable that their previous…

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,…

Beta 5 of V3.0.6 is out – download from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/ This release introduces downloading from Polar RS400, RS800 RS800cx, CS400, CS600 & CS600x. Fixes in this release include: Improvements in Garmin downloading Support for new format SRM Files Totals now works correctly for multiple users support for importing iBike files Various other bug fixes As…

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.