ptx2 / gymnasticon

Make obsolete and/or proprietary exercise bikes work with popular cycling training apps like Zwift, TrainerRoad, Rouvy and more.
https://ptx2.net/posts/unbricking-a-bike-with-a-raspberry-pi
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Fix cadence accuracy. #15

Closed ptx2 closed 4 years ago

ptx2 commented 4 years ago

There are two issues here. The first and main issue is that the cadence value reported by Zwift and other apps was 4.8576% higher than actual. The root cause is the conversion from milliseconds to 1/1024ths was using the wrong (inverted) scale. The second issue is flapping, i.e. when using bot mode set to 100 rpm, we expect Zwift to report exactly 100 rpm but it flaps between 99rpm and 100rpm. The root cause is the crank revolution timestamps were being calculated using the system clock on every simulated pedal stroke which is subject to some amount of jitter. The fix is to simply calculate each crank revolution timestamp from the previous one, by adding the current cadence interval to it.