Cycling speed sensor (bluetooth 4.0 ANT+ )

Hardware
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Does anyone has experience with cycling speed sensor and TD. The type ANT+ Bluetooth 4.0 . I would like to know what is the best approach to get it working. Thx

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Haven’t seen any implementation yet, but a quick search revealed this:

I’d be very interested to hear if this would work…
Cheers
Markus

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Hi markus, after little bit of research following your link i found few paths to investigate.

Openant GitHub - Tigge/openant: ANT and ANT-FS Python Library which looks like specific to Garmin devices

The developer tool on the official ANT+ site https://www.thisisant.com/developer/resources/software-tools , it might help
and the Python-Ant github link you posted.
I can write python but not sure where to start or even which fork to try out. Really i would like to test the most basic setup which would be a Cycling speed sensor https://www.thisisant.com/directory/ant-bike-speed-sensor and get that data into TD .

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Any movement in this area?

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Did you try to receive data using SimulANT+ ?

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Hey @sebkowski

I have a treadmill sensor and an ANT+ usb dongle ordered and waiting for them to arrive. Did you achieve any data transmission? Using the python lib?

Or @snaut do you know of any other approaches within the community?

Greetings from Berlin

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Hi @daniel.dalfovo,

no - haven’t seen anything. Please let me know if you are making progress on this though.

Best
Markus

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Hey @snaut and @sebkowski. Sorry I was a little caught up, but I was able to get things running with this lib:

The author went through the same problems that I went through when trying to implement the standard library or one of the many forks of it. So the lib mentioned above seems to me like a bare bone version of it, reduced to some minimal but working functions. Works nicely for me now, receiving speed of treadmills and heart-sensors, etc from multiple devices at the same time.

I needed to buy this USB ANT+ dongle: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/product/B08L3KF918/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Install this driver for it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mHhHdtabsZLpG1y9grIIYSdxMHrSSegB/view

And I manually extended the lib and added some functions to it since I was a bit limited. Thanks @greg for pointing to their software tools, the helped to get things going in terms of “IDs”, ports etc.

All in all it was much harder than I thought, not really standard, scarce documentation. But now its all wokring!! YEA! Let me know if someone has specific questions…

Best,
Daniel

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