About IpSensorMan
IpSensorMan Manages talking to various sporting sensors using ANT+™ or Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces. Using a separate app allows multiple client apps to access to the sensors simultaneously. Most of the...
IpSensorMan Manages talking to various sporting sensors using ANT+™ or Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces. Using a separate app allows multiple client apps to access to the sensors simultaneously. Most of the hard work for talking to the various standard sensors is provided by the app simplifying the client apps. Simplified information is broadcast to any registered application that wants access to the sensor data.
This product is ANT+ certified and complies with the following specified ANT+ device profiles:
Bicycle speed data
Bicycle cadence data
Bicycle combined speed and cadence data
Bicycle power data
Heart rate data
The following are supported but have not gone though certification yet.
Stride Based Speed and Distance (footpod)
Environment (Garmin Tempe)
Running dynamics
Bike Radar
Fitness equipment control (FEC). Trainer control.
Shifting
Suspension
Dropper post
Remote control
Muscle Oxygen
Bike Light
Polar Wearlink®+ transmitter with Bluetooth® and Zephyr HxM BlueTooth Heart rate monitor support added with 1.2.6
Bluetooth Low Energy / Bluetooth Smart support for the following.
Heart rate
Bike speed and cadence
Bike power (Only a single sensor not dual pedals transmitting independently)
Running speed and cadence (footpod)
Stryd running power.
IpSensorMan should recognize other ANT+ sensor types although full decoding support is not currently implemented.
Currently the applications using IpSensorMan are:
IpBike an ANT+ sensor based bike computer. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipbike
IpPeloton an app to show details from other ANT+ heart rate monitors and power sensors. So you can easily compare your effort with your riding companions effort. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ippeloton
IpWatts an application to log the data from multiple power sensors simultaniously with a single timebase. Also logs a single Speed, Cadence and Heart rate source. The app you need if you want to compare Power meters.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipwatts
Other applications may well be added.
If you are a developer and want to use this interface then please feel free to email me.
Permission reasons.
Network communications - full Internet access. The crash reporting system want this. Also I collect usage stats via flurry.com. I am really interested what phones it is installed on and what ANT+ sensors it is used with. You can switch this off from the options.
Hardware controls - ANT radio access. I won't be able to do much without this one.
System tools - modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping. There is an option to keep ANT active when the phone is in airplane mode which us useful for saving power, this needs to modify the system settings. You still need to do the airplane mode entry yourself. This feature needs at least version 2.6 of ANT Radio Services. If we are actively monitoring the ant radio the phone will not sleep, the screen may still go off though.
Bluetooth - in order to support the Bluetooth Heart rate monitors.
Location - is needed to be able to access Bluetooth low energy sensors. This is because theoretically you can then see beacons which can be used to get your location. I do not have any Beacon support.
For details on USB Host mode and using an ANT usb stick please see
http://www.iforpowell.com/cms/index.php?page=usb-ant-stick
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of IpSensorMan since it was posted on our website on 2013-08-21 23:27:23.
The latest version is and it was updated on 2024-04-19 18:12:38. See below the changes in each version.
IpSensorMan version
Updated At: 2023-01-04
Changes: Fix crash related to Android 12 and 13 changeing permissions for Bluetooth.
If on Android 12 or 13 open IpSesnorMan and press the search button to re-do the permissions.
Add in generic battery state message for all sensors with some battery information.
Use and target api level 33.
Android 13 don't try switching off BT as no longer possible by none system apps.
Switching on BT will bring a system dialog up and require the user to interact with it.
IpSensorMan version
Updated At: 2022-04-27
Changes: Adding in ANT Core Temperature sensor support.
BTLE Support for Garmin Radar devices with Btle. This is reverse engeneared so best effort only.
Fix HR Run Running Dynamics failing to startup some times.
Reset FEC Trainer target every 15 seconds even when there is no need to change it.
Rename the light modes to be easier to understand.
Adding Storage provider to allow access to temp files on later Android versions that stopped this
by default.
IpSensorMan version
Updated At: 2021-12-06
Changes: bug fixes from crash reports.
IpSensorMan version
Updated At: 2021-10-22
Changes: Update to SDK 30.
Update crash reporting system backend.
Added in first guess at Tyre pressure sensor. No Spec so reverse engineering.
Tweaks for Android 11
Sort out issues with log file writing for some sensor types.
Allow retrying when trying to switch light off at shutdown.
Update to force ANT type for mixed style BTLE sensors every time they start up.
Needed to get adding Speed or Cadence only to IpBike correctly.
IpSensorMan version 2.0.8
Updated At: 2021-02-10
Changes: 2.0.8
Add support for a local HR sensor if present.
Fix LSS format issue.
2.0.7
Added Stryd BLE running dynamics support.
Fix issue with channel period of RD HR sensor in some startup scenarios.
Alter app registration to protect against getting the same app twice.
Some display tweaking for round screen.
Tweak to try and get speed and distance from Legacy Trainer.
IpSensorMan version 2.0.7
Updated At: 2020-12-10
Changes: 2.0.7
Added Stryd BLE running dynamics support.
Fix issue with channel period of RD HR sensor in some startup scenarios.
Alter app registration to protect against getting the same app twice.
Some display tweaking for round screen.
Tweak to try and get speed and distance from Legacy Trainer.
IpSensorMan version 2.0.4
Updated At: 2020-04-15
Changes: Fix potential crash while enabling Bluetooth.
IpSensorMan version 2.0.3
Updated At: 2020-04-09
Changes: Getting Dynamics really working.
Cycling dynamics and Running dynamics support added.
You need to have Power in none plugins mode for cycling dynamics.
Need to have HR in none plugins mode if with HR Run sensor.
Tweak Android 10 permissions request.
Got Btle working when you have an equivalent Ant sensor.
Get spinner working while doing a manual search.
Support for newer Api's for BTLE scanning.
Log errors if startLeScan fails.
Some bug fixes around plugins restart code.
IpSensorMan version 2.0.1
Updated At: 2019-12-18
Changes: 2.0.1
Move to latest Ant plugins library fixes Android 10 crash.
Added average cadence workaround for BTLE power issue.
IpSensorMan version 2.0.0
Updated At: 2019-11-18
Changes: Major public release update from the old 1.2.6. Bean in beta for years.
Addition of Bluetooth low energy support.
Major re-write of underlying ANT code.
This version has run-time permissions. If you have trouble open the app up and make sure you give permission.
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