The latest indieVelo update, v0.3.3, released July 22nd, 2024, enhances workout customization and functionality to maximize training benefit.
This week’s release of indieVelo (see below for full details) focuses on making workouts easier to customize and configure. It enables users to ride workouts however and whenever they want to help maximize the benefit of their training. Headlines include:
Starting Workouts: Workouts can now be started at any point during a ride, including when doing a free ride or following a route. It also means you can do multiple workouts within a single ride by selecting “start a new workout” when the previous one finishes. Simply choose your workout anytime from the new in-world button in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.
Powermatch: indieVelo now supports resistance control of workouts in ERG mode from an independent power meter. Pair a power meter and your trainer with the “prefer power meter” option selected, and the trainer resistance will be automatically updated to keep your power meter readings in the target range for the workout. It is perfect for those who regularly train indoors and outdoors as it provides consistency of data measurement between the two.
Settings: indieVelo now shows a new workout configuration menu after selecting a workout. This feature brings together all the various existing settings that there are in indieVelo (together with a few brand new ones, such as the ability to ignore cadence targets or not round power target values to the nearest 5W) into one easy-to-access place, making it all more streamlined to use.
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 again mainly focus on a variety of different aspects of workouts, including fixing some long-standing niggles with the UI and display of data, as well as continuing to improve the backend infrastructure to keep everything running smoothly.
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!
“Thank you all again for your continued support and suggestions for improvements and new features to develop. Please keep them coming, as every thought and idea is hugely appreciated and contributes to making indieVelo better with every release.”
George Gilbert
Patch Notes – v0.3.3 – Key changes from the last version:
- Added ability to start a workout when doing a free ride.
- Added ability to start multiple workouts in a single ride.
- Added ability to use power meter data for ERG mode (powermatch).
- Added ability to turn off rounding of target values in workouts.
- Added ability to ignore cadence targets in workouts.
- Added workout settings menu for easier configuration of workouts.
- Added more translation strings for each language.
- Added lots more custom team kits and event banners.
- Improved route lap progress bar during workouts.
- Improved difficulty ratio range for workouts.
- Improved calibration flow when using a trainer as a power meter.
- Improved smoothing applied to the display of interpolated data.
- Improved handling of ESC hotkey when showing the actions menu.
- Improved default selection in the actions menu.
- Improved various translations.
- Improved handling of API failures.
- Improved handling of errors when connecting to servers.
- Improved server blocking of malicious port scanners.
- Improved server performance.
- Fixed bug with downloading process sometimes appearing to hang.
- Fixed bug with display of results in some very rare race conditions.
- Fixed bug with display of drafting value on split roads.
- Fixed bug with rounding of values in workout histograms.
- Fixed bug with non-integer power target values in workouts.
- Fixed bug with resolution of power graph during workouts.
- Fixed bug with coloring of custom UI data values during workouts.
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