Device Testing iSMARTtrain V4

Here’s the first posting in our new Blog. Here, we’ll update you with what’s happening with the development of our products, and life in general at OTAG Technologies Ltd.

One of the things we’re quite often asked is how to import a group of existing .hrm files into iSMARTtrain. These are often the user’s existing sessions from the Polar PPP windows software or another application, such as PC Coach, that creates files in this format. Using ‘Import’ from the ‘File’ menu only lets you…

Congratulations to Scotland’s cycling team at the Commonwealth Games on their gold medal in the Team sprint – Scotland’s first ever gold medal for cycling at the games. The team of Chris Hoy, Craig MacLean and Ross Edgar beat Engleand by just 0.027 secs to claim the medal. Well done, guys! Full story here –…

Beta 33 of iSMARTtrain is now available. As usual, you can download a copy from http://www.ismarttrain.com/Beta/. As before, this release requires a valid serial number – V2.0 serial numbers are valid. For the remainder of the Beta period, we’ve held the price at $39.95/€34.95/£23.95. You can buy a serial number here – Mac or PC….

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…

The latest edition of Joe Beer’s podcast, SMARTcast, is available on his site (http://www.jbst.com). Presented by Joe, it covers a variety of topics, including new technology at the Tour de France, Power measurement in cycling and glycerol hyper-hydration. Download a copy from here, or subscribe to it in the iTunes Music Store.