ANT+ Virtual Stride Based Speed and Distance Monitor

Overview

This project implements "virtual speed" from heart rate monitor. The calculated speed is broadcasted as such on ANT+ (using python-ant). Based on vpower by Darren Hague.

Even if the receiver app runs on the same computer, you will need two ANT+ sticks, because one device can't be used by two apps simultaneously.

Supported devices:

• ANTUSB2 Stick (0fcf:1008: Dynastream Innovations, Inc.)
• ANTUSB-m Stick (0fcf:1009: Dynastream Innovations, Inc.)

Warning: the Cycplus ANT Stick is not compatible, even though it uses the same Vendor ID and Product ID (0fcf:1008) as the ANTUSB2 Stick.

Running on Windows

• Download the standalone executable
• Install the libusb-win32 driver for the ANT+ device (if not already installed), it can be easily done using Zadig
  • Options - List All Devices
  • Select ANT+ stick
  • Select libusb-win32 driver and click Replace Driver
• Run the downloaded executable

Running from source code (Windows, Linux, macOS)

• Install Python 3 if not already installed
  • Check "Add Python to PATH" or use the full path in the commands below
• Clone or download this repo
• CD to the repo directory and run pip install -r requirements.txt
  • On Linux and macOS use pip3 instead of pip
• [Optional] Run pip install pywin32 (Windows only, to stop the ANT node on terminal window close)
• Run python vspeed.py (or double click vspeed.py if you installed the Python Launcher)
  • On Linux and macOS use python3 instead of python