[HN Gopher] The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless
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The Begining of the End for ANT+ Wireless
Author : nradov
Score : 47 points
Date : 2025-01-04 20:19 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.dcrainmaker.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.dcrainmaker.com)
| wslh wrote:
| ELI5: Does this mean that, in the future, I will not
| automatically see my heart beats on a treadmill without doing any
| kind of device pairing?
| jjtheblunt wrote:
| Did you read the very first sentence of the article?
| wslh wrote:
| Yes, and that is why I was asking for the treadmill. The
| article was confusing from the point of view of the user: go
| to the treadmill and see your heartbeat appearing. What will
| replace ANT+ in the future? How sport machines like
| treadmills will react to this reality? You need two to tango:
| health devices are only one side.
| jjtheblunt wrote:
| It looks like they're saying treadmills etc will
| "balkanize" to build their own protocols. that seems more
| difficult than something based off bluetooth. i agree that
| the article gets more vague the longer it got. i guess time
| will tell.
| fuzzy2 wrote:
| That was never ANT+ anyway.
| rcdemski wrote:
| Surprisingly well written and just detailed enough to not leaving
| wanting more or overwhelmed. I never really got in to ANT+ land
| with cycling but the couple things I tried I appreciated how
| easily they paired up. Bluetooth feels like the obvious next
| place but with so much momentum behind ANT+ I wonder how long
| this transition will take.
| notatoad wrote:
| > They are discontinuing membership programs/fees
|
| > They are discontinuing certification programs
|
| > They are however continuing to ensure ANT+ is available on
| silicon
|
| > All documentation to be made fully available online
|
| funny how "the beginning of the end" kind of sounds excellent.
| fer wrote:
| You skipped:
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| > They are ceasing development of new ANT+ Profiles
|
| Which kind of ensures a slow death, as new devices potentially
| would require them.
| notatoad wrote:
| the most recent profile they added was an update to the
| cycling shifter profile. before that, the most recent actual
| new device type they added was radars in 2016.
|
| ant+ is not a protocol that has or needs to have frequent
| updates. opening it up could have been a lot more significant
| than stopping the development of new profiles.
| nimish wrote:
| Good. It was a pointless standard now that ble exists.
| mtrovo wrote:
| I'm crossing my fingers that this EU move nudges Garmin, SRAM,
| Shimano, etc. to collaborate on an open Bluetooth protocol. Sick
| of the whole private extensions protocol approach.
| stingrae wrote:
| In the article it mentioned Bluetooth SIG sluggishness being
| the primary reason that they didn't shift over.
| thebruce87m wrote:
| Slightly off-topic but can anyone recommend a cheap viewer for
| the Garmin Varia Radars? It's ANT+ but I can bring myself to pay
| hundreds for a bike computer when all I need is an LED and a
| beeping noise to indicate a car behind me. Cheapest I can find is
| a Bryton Rider 420.
|
| I bought a mount for my phone but then discovered that vibrations
| can kill the autofocus/stabilisation, even with a damper.
| tguvot wrote:
| if you can find used/new varia vision.
| geor9e wrote:
| So a phone app does everything, but you're just worried abut
| your expensive phone? Get another. Search "android prepaid
| phone" they're mostly around $30.
| misnome wrote:
| I think they meant that the vibrations mean the app doesn't
| work because with the vibrations of the camera the picture is
| useless, not that it damages the phone.
| thebruce87m wrote:
| No, it's the damage I was talking about: https://www.reddit
| .com/r/cycling/comments/14s9fwm/comment/k5...
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