Indoor trainer tech

[Unsytherhino]

Now that it's too cold and dark out, I'm back on the trainer, the other day I was watching a soccer match whilst peddling, occasionally looking down at my computer to check my speed/cadence/distance/time, got me thinking, is there a dongle available so that I could view this data on the telly? It could be along the bottom or side of the TV screen, could it be done via bluetooth?

 

[DirtyWorks]

This is pretty complicated request, but a good idea.

There is two parts to this problem.

#1 sending the data to the tv. The average bike computer is a closed loop. You'd need to switch to some kind of ANT device to collect the data. And then send that data to a listener. The listener then needs to convert the data into something useful.

#2 Display on the tele. This is hackable on mythtv. http://www.mythtv.org/
They do this with menus already, so there's at least an example of how to do an overlay in the code, but you need to spend quite a bit of time getting into the code to work it out. And that's before you've finished the listener that needs to send the data to Mythtv.

I believe there are very expensive trainers that do this already, but again, it's a closed loop system for a very good reason. It's a whole bunch of development work!!

 

[Alex Simmons/RST]

Now that it's too cold and dark out, I'm back on the trainer, the other day I was watching a soccer match whilst peddling, occasionally looking down at my computer to check my speed/cadence/distance/time, got me thinking, is there a dongle available so that I could view this data on the telly? It could be along the bottom or side of the TV screen, could it be done via bluetooth?

There are several software packages that can do this via your computer/laptop with an ANT+ dongle but I'm unaware of TVs that will show one video signal overlayed on another.

My Computer is also a TV via Windows media centre, and PerfPro software has a "transparent" mode so that you can overly the data on top of whatever it is you are watching on screen. Or you can simply re-size windows on screen to suit.