Thread: eCoach
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afranke is offline afranke
2010-09-22 , 20:48
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#263
Originally Posted by zimon View Post
Is Polar belt what you currently suggest using with eCoach or some other?
I am planning to buy one for eCoach use.
As stated on http://ecoach.garage.maemo.org/ eCoach officially supports Zephyr HxM and FRWD B600 heart rate monitors.

I purchased the Zephyr as it's cheaper, easier to get (I bought it directly from their website), and looked exactly like what I wanted, and so far I'm very happy with it so I recommend it.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
However, to make eCoach a real substitute for a real sports GPS, it still needs work. Some easy-to-implement features I believe.
As far as I know, the developer decided to stop working on current GTK+ based version, and focus on his new Qt based version. That means no new features in current version, you'll have to wait for the new version.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
DISPLAY MODE OPTIONS: PACE/SPEED; If this is already in eCoach, I apologise. I have noticed that in the activity log you can view the pace (min/km), but I am not sure whether it is visible during activity, as I currently only using eCoach as a backup/mapper, as stated earlier.
This is already possible. Default display is the map. If you push the Data button, it will switch to data (hehe, obviously), and speed is one of them.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
AUTOPAUSE; when speed drops below predefined or user defined speed or pace (perhaps some predefined values depending on exercise type and possibility for user to input a custom value): pause the exercise and record this part of the exercise as rest time, both time and distance; For example, "Autopause when speed drops below 5km/h" to pause exercise when I am standing in the traffic lights or when I am tying my shoelaces.
I think I've already seen a request for this in this thread but I can't find a feature request in the bug trackers so I'll file a bug as soon as Sampo answers the question at the end of this post.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
SPEED/PACE ALERTS; possibility to set low speed/pace alert and high speed/pace alert independently
Good idea, I'll file a feature request for that too.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
AUTO-LAPS; At user defined (custom, or chosen from a list) intervals (either time or distance), log a lap, with distance and time and accumulated time.
Same for that one.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
TIME/DISTANCE ALERTS, should both be independently toggleable on/off and the limits should again be user defined (custom or chosen from a list).
And same for that one too.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
SPEED AVERAGING: In some conditions GPS receiving is poor, and speed display might become "jumpy", showing very low or very high speeds.
That too. I think I even already saw a request in this thread for this.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
VIRTUAL OPPONENT; Set your virtual opponents' average speed, and during your exercise, see how much you are behind or ahead of the opponent. Either timewise or distancewise.
Oh, that's genius! I never thought of that one and I'll add this one to the list too.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
LOW/HIGH HR ALERTS; Same idea as speed/pace alerts above, basically to define the HR-range in which you want to train and alert if going outside of that
This has been requested here too and this is the feature I'm really missing. All the other ones would be nice be I can do without them. But this one, I think it's much needed to make HRM really useful. I'll file that one too, of course.

Originally Posted by AkiL View Post
All alerts need to be audible even if using media players on the n900 at the same time.
I don't think that's really a problem since we have Pulseaudio, which means that any number of applications can play sounds at the same time. However, temporarily muting, reducing volume or pausing media player while playing the alert sound might be a better idea, depending on the way the alert sounds. I think there's a DBus way to do that.


Note to Sampo: I noticed there are bug reports and feature requests both on bugs.maemo.org and Maemo Garage. Do you really pay attention to both sites?
 

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