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Started by summershoe May 09 2017, 15:29
summershoe Posts: 2 |
May 09 2017, 15:29 I've digging around in IPBike's advanced features recently and found settings for air speed and wind speed. I can't find anything else in the documentation about this. Are there sensors you can put on your bike to measure this? I'd be very interested if there is! |
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hsiaolc Posts: 16 |
May 12 2017, 09:42 summershoe:
I've digging around in IPBike's advanced features recently and found settings for air speed and wind speed. I can't find anything else in the documentation about this. Are there sensors you can put on your bike to measure this? I'd be very interested if there is!
Maybe it is taking data from weather stations. Just guessing. No idea. |
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mortarart Posts: 3 |
May 14 2017, 14:46 The PowerPod power meter is basically just a wind sensor, with speed and cadence and some fancy algorithms. The original prototype sensor was just a DC motor inside a 3D printed housing, mounted to the handlebars. I personally think that this might be a very interesting avenue to pursue, for open-source or super-cheap power meters that could link up to something like IPBike. |
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Ifor Moderator Posts: 939 |
May 14 2017, 16:28 The beta version of IpSensorMan provides support for the WeatherFlow WeatherMeter to IpBike in order to provide relative air speed information which is used with road speed to get the wind speed. I will add support for any other sensors if they are broadcasting the data over ANT or BTLE and have published the necessary interfacing information. The PowerPod clearly has the information but I have seen no details on it being broadcast. |
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summershoe Posts: 2 |
May 25 2017, 11:48 Thanks Ifor, I'll have a look at the WeatherFlow, and might even have a go at building my own bluetooth wind speed sensor! |
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Ifor Moderator Posts: 939 |
Jun 02 2017, 21:26 Email me if you do build your own and I will let you know what characteristics I look for from the weatherflow and what the data is formatted like. They have an API but I ended up reverse engineering it as there API along with my current BTLE support got into a right mess due to the dodgy nature of the BTLE API's under Android. |
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mortarart Posts: 3 |
Oct 13 2017, 03:18 Summershoe ... Ifor (if you've had an email from them) ... I'm an industrial designer of sorts with my own 3D printers, and some electrical engineering skills. If you need any help with wiring up a motor to a fan, or similar, and fitting it into a unit, I'd be happy to help, so long as the project remains open source. |
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