Bluetooth low energy & ANT+ sports sensors Pinephone distro?

[Peter Gamma]

I ve got problems since a long time with ANT+ sports sensors, especially from Garmin. It is not possible to access raw data for instance for heart rate recordings in a easy way. Garmin stores them in a intransparent .fit file fomat on their watches. They can be synchronized to different sports platforms. But I could not find an easy way to access raw heart rate data.



Therre are three different Android applications for ANT+ sports sensors:

1. Garmin connect mobile
   only allows synchronization to Garmin connect, which gives no access to .csv raw data
   

1. IpBike
   Despite the name “IpBike” there is no option for an IP stream to the web or to a PC application. Also there is no option to access .csv data. The interface of IpBike is proprietary and not published.
   

1. a training tracker from Rainer Blind
   has become an open source project, and can record data directly to .csv files. Unfortunately, i did not manage to get a stable connection to sports sensors to this date.
   

I m in trouble with ANT+ sports sensors since many years. It is a proprietary standard and I could not find a by users confirmed and community driven solution for a ANT+ sensor data aquisition. It seems that Garmin or THIS IS ANT does not want users to access their raw user data on a PC and process them independently of their software. The user data belong to the user, and not to a company.




I listed all the options for physiological sensor aquisition I was studying here




https://github.com/PeterGamma




I love the idea of an open, friendly and community driven Pinephone, and I miss an open, friendly and community driven mobile BLE sports sensor device. It would be the pure oposite from what I experienced with Garmin and THIS IS ANT.