The latest indieVelo update V0.2.29 released December 23, 2023, spreads Type 2 Festive Fun, Android updates, and other critical fixes.
Type 2 Festive indieVelo Fun is on tap for the Holiday Week!
This is just a minor update this week (see below for full details), mainly focusing on Android but with some critical fixes to rubberbanding, late joining, trainer compatibility, and, of course, adding a variety of Rapha Festive 500 group rides next week.
Note for Mac Bluetooth users: If you find that the Bluetooth icon on the pairing screen has turned red, please follow the instructions linked from https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/apple-mac-ble-permissions/ to first completely remove, and then re-add, permission for indieVelo to use the Mac Bluetooth connection.
Do you want to steepen your indieVelo learning curve? Check out our How-to-Guides page for details!
If all has gone well, you shouldn’t have to do anything to get the new version, as indieVelo will self-update the next time you start it up. If you find any problems, however, instructions on how to manually update are on the website: https://wiki.indievelo.com/docs/updates
Please note that, depending on when you installed indieVelo, you may see a warning message recommending that you update the installer/launcher to the latest version. If you see this, download it again from https://indievelo.com/downloads, and the update will automatically apply. The entire process typically takes a minute or two, often much less.
The full patch notes are below!
“Thank you, and best wishes for the holidays! indieVelo founder Dr. George Gilbert
Patch Notes – V0.2.29 – Key changes from the last version:
- Added Rapha Festive 500 rides.
- Added ability to save screenshots on Android to the Photo Gallery.
- Added option to limit frame rate to 20 FPS to help preserve mobile battery life.
- Added support for a variety of older trainers that don’t support ANT+ / BLE FTMS.
- Added lots more teams.
- Improved image quality of screenshots on all devices.
- Improved accuracy required to get ticks on recovery intervals in workouts.
- Improved default graphics settings on Android.
- Improved next/previous camera rotation options to include drone camera.
- Improved menus on Android to remove options that aren’t relevant on mobile.
- Improved various menu text descriptions.
- Improved Performance Verification documentation (here).
- Fixed bug with rubberband strength in group rides.
- Fixed bug with very late join (> 40 mins) of group rides.
- Fixed bug with configuring a timed challenge with inconsistent parameters.
- Fixed bug with screen appearing stretched on some Android devices.
- Fixed bug with not being able to exit camera drone mode on mobile.
- Fixed bug with a handful of floating fence posts / rocks.
- Fixed bug with bot-only events.
- Fixed various typos.
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