Last Updated on January 7, 2023 by pg@petergamma.org
Reto Roellins Infinity Flow site received an award from fahrrad.de as a blogger. Reto takes beautiful pictures from wonderful places in Switzerland, where he goes biking, and writes about it.
His blog is very beautiful, but his behavior as a coder is very ugly. He offers us code which we can test and supports us. But only much later we see that he strongly protects his code and we are not allowed to do anything with it.
This procedure reminds us strongly about the procedure with THIS IS ANT. There is a support forum, we get supported, but only very much later we find out, that everything is strongly controlled any we have to pay license fees for everything.
Reto is an excellent and professional coder working in Central Switzerland. Did Reto receive a job from THIS IS ANT or Gamin to offer us this demo?
Also Dave Does Demos from Microsoft UK offered us a demo how to stream the heart rate from a Garmin watch over the EventHubApp to the Azure Cloud and PowerPi, which we have tested. Unfortunately, without any success, we failed.
At the end, Dave told us “it is only a demo”. We do not know of anybody else who tested his demo. Is Retos code also a demo? We never tested Retos code. It looks as if the code was designed for coders. And his procedure remind us strongly to the procedure in THIS IS ANT.
We do not know of anyone who produced so much watches as Garmin, and sometimes it is difficult what is different from one watch to the other.We also tested many demos, and they look similar to each other, as one Garmin watch looks similar to the other. And demos from Dave Does Demos from Microsoft UK are similar to demos from Reto from Infinity Flow.
Both projects look, as if it is only a demo. We cannot see any purposeful follow up projects in Dave Does Demos demo and Retos demo.