The latest indieVelo update, v0.3.14, released October 7th, 2024, introduces functionality to monitor blood oxygen and temperature levels.
indieVelo has always focused on creating the technology needed for committed athletes—those who take their training and racing seriously. This week’s release (see below for full details) provides additional advanced training information requested by elite coaches, performance testing laboratories, and others to help analyze athlete performances.
Initially, indieVelo introduces support for pairing sensors for measuring blood oxygen levels in muscles (SmO2—both saturation and concentration measurements) and temperature sensors (core temperature, skin temperature, and heat stress index measurements).
With today’s release, users can now display real-time measurements of these values while riding, using indieVelo’s custom UI settings to put them on the screen wherever they want to see them.
Additionally, now that the infrastructure is in place to handle advanced sensor pairing, support for further types can be easily added—please don’t hesitate to let the developer know if you’d like to see other sensors and data metrics supported.
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 are also a range of other additions, improvements, and fixes, mostly focusing on pairing infrastructure. However, October also introduces a new set of monthly challenges (including a 1km Time Trial Challenge on the Velodrome) and general improvements to the UI.
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 the support and encouragement. With 100% of the indieVelo roadmap determined by your ideas and suggestions, every piece of feedback is incredibly valuable and really makes a difference to the continued improvement of indieVelo each and every week.”
George Gilbert
Patch Notes – v0.3.13 – Key changes from the last version:
- Added support for SmO2 Saturation sensors.
- Added support for SmO2 Concentration sensors.
- Added support for Core Temperature sensors.
- Added support for Skin Temperature sensors.
- Added support for Heat Stress Index sensors.
- Added new monthly challenges for October.
- Added lots more custom team kits, event banners, and event jerseys.
- Improved information shown when pairing.
- Improved ordering of options in custom UI settings lists.
- Improved pairing infrastructure.
- Improved menu alignment
- Fixed bug with order of initialization of UI elements.
- Fixed bug with UI display when in spectate mode.
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