Last Updated on December 15, 2022 by pg@petergamma.org
Balena Health has the features for we were looking for since several years. It is highly desirable to have a community for this product which develops it further, adds more sensors, more software applications, etc. It does not matter whether it is Balena Health, Balena Home Assistant or Home Assistant. What matters is to have a single InfluxDB in which multiple sensors are streamed in. And what matters is a community project. What sense does it make when every developer integrates again his sensor into an InfluxDB from scratch? It is highly desirable to have a community project which supports as many sensors as possible. Home Assistant has integration for sensors which can downloaded and is a raw model for a multi sensor software.
We currently have:
1. The Balena Health which supports the Polar H10 chest strap
2. Adafruit supported us with the info that the Adafruit Pyloton Bike Computer can be modified to support foot pods
3. We have treadmill sensors which can measure the speed of treadmills and can be integrated as BLE footpods in software platforms
4. We have the Xiaomi treadmill which can be controlled from Home Assistant, but nobody confirmed that it works
5. We have very delailed information about the Stryd foot pod and it s accuracy. We can also choose other BLE footpods and calibrate it for our project.
6. Adafruit Pyloton has support for bike speed and cadence, as well as heart rate
7. Home Assistant has an example with an Apple watch how to stream sensor data from Apple Health to HA and InfluxDB.
- It is highly desirable to have all these components integrated into one platform and one InfluxDB, which allows sensor data processing in Python.
- But all these components put together are a project which allows to do experiments with foot pods, treadmills, treadmill speed, and calibration, and allows us to do research and development whith these compoments. This was previously not possible, or much more difficult.
- THIS IS ANT has support for ANT+ sensors and also multi sensor projects. But we do not know of any ANT+ InfluxDB projects.
- Are the THIS IS ANT+ license costs worth the advantages which the ANT+ sensors have over the BLE sensors?