The latest indieVelo update, v0.3.2, released July 15th, 2024, adds event series/leagues and more support for third-party workout providers.
This week’s release of indieVelo (see below for full details) focuses on adding support for event series & leagues and extending compatibility with third-party workout providers.
Series: indieVelo now supports the creation of an event series, enabling consistent pen allocations for riders across every event.
Explicitly, organizers can now override the normal automatic matchmaking process with their own pen allocations for each rider so that riders will always compete against the same people in every race in the series.
indieVelo also enables organizers to choose to vary those pens at any time, enabling them to handle promotion, demotion, and other elements, however and whenever they want.
Workouts: indieVelo now supports third-party applications controlling the resistance of your trainer. This is perfect for compatibility with TrainerRoad, BeatBiker, and other such workout apps, enabling you to enjoy the best of both worlds riding your favorite workouts within indieVelo.
Users can enable this feature in one of two ways: selecting a dummy workout and setting the resistance mode to “External” or doing a normal free-ride/route but pairing their smart trainer as a power meter (i.e., measuring their power, not controlling it).
Here’s how to get indieVelo on your AppleTV!
1) Anyone with access to indieVelo on iOS (iPhone/iPad) should now automatically be able to access the AppleTV version too. Simply download TestFlight from the AppStore on your AppleTV, and indieVelo should be there waiting for you to run.
2) Anyone who is a member of the indieVelo Founders Club but doesn’t have access to the Apple versions of indieVelo can email: help@indievelo.com with the email address they use in the AppStore and will receive instructions.
3) Anyone not yet an indieVelo Founders Club member should click here to join, then email me as above.
As usual, there is also a wide range of other additions, improvements, and fixes.These include better Bluetooth compatibility with devices, three new routes to ride, improved arch positioning, more automated Performance Verification checks, and further tweaks to the UI to make everything more accessible and more intuitive to use.
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, then you shouldn’t have to do anything to get the new version, as indieVelo will just 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
The full patch notes are below!
“I really cannot thank everyone enough for your overwhelming support and continued suggestions for further ways to keep indieVelo improving. Thank you!”
George Gilbert
Patch Notes – v0.3.2 – Key changes from the last version:
- Added ability to assign events to be part of a series.
- Added ability to specify fixed rider pen allocations for a series.
- Added ability to pair a smart trainer as a powermeter.
- Added support for external control of resistance during workouts.
- Added support for Bluetooth bridging devices that carry CSC data.
- Added three new routes.
- Added lots more custom teams.
- Improved location of arches on the mountain / Marathon route.
- Improved Tier 2 performance verification to ensure powermeters are independent.
- Improved various workouts.
- Improved positioning of various UI elements.
- Improved performance verification infrastructure.
- Improved device pairing infrastructure.
- Improved text shown on connected accounts menu.
- Improved disallowed words filter.
- Fixed bug with identifying some bridged CSC devices.
- Fixed bug with viewing relatively old event results.
- Fixed bug with rounding of color values in some workouts.
- Fixed bug with viewing riders who have not yet fully loaded.
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