v0.23 Update

Overview

The v0.23 release of Fitness Dashboard is finally out.

This has several new major features:

• BLE Sensors supported, initially Heart Rate Monitors, Moxy, Movesense
• Garmin FIT File support for saving data
• Support for Sauce4Zwift to get additional workout data (e.g. GPS, distance, etc)
• Python command line tool to extract workout data from FIT files

All of the above ended up taking longer than I had originally planned for, and unfortunately because I was working in parallel on them it was impossible to find a stable release candidate before now.

Roadmap

Going forward these are the areas I’m targeting:

• BLE support for Power Meters and Trainers
• BLE support VO2Master, with control panel for managing the device
• control panel to start/stop, laps, FIT file
• reading FIT file for analysis
• power sensor comparison panel
• pan and zoom for graph panel
• additional graph panels, ECG, VO2Master
• save graphs to PDF

FIT Files

I’ll generate a more in depth description of the FIT file support when I get time.

Currently data from each sensor is saved separately with a Record Message using the device_index to determine which device the data was collected from.

Specifically for Heart Rate Monitors:

- RR, correction information and  NN data is saved
- DFA Alpha1 and if available ECG data (Polar H10 and Movesense)

For Power Meters:

- TSS, est kCal

There is a separate Python command line utility, fitextract, that can extract any and all workout data from FIT files. See Git Archive for fitextract.