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Data logger for serial enabled rowing machines (such as Water Rower), storing remotely via Bluetooth or storing locally on SD
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Question and Support #1

Closed cmstephan closed 1 year ago

cmstephan commented 5 years ago

Hi, I am playing around with your great work and try to understand what you are doing as I want to reuse your project for something I would like to implement with the WaterRower.

I have following challenges at the moment: a) The Waterrower (Performance Monitor IV) does not start to send data. If I connect with WeRow and start rowing and than switch the cable I can retrieve data. b) In general I am looking for the specification of the protocol of the waterrower but could not find any documentation - can you provide this spec?

Many thanks Christopher

stoduk commented 5 years ago

What is your project?

Is your Performance Monitor the same as mine (ie. serial via DIN socket) or is it the newer one with USB?

I think there was a spec for the data protocol, I can't remember if that was official or not. I'll dig around to see if I can find it.

stoduk commented 5 years ago

I can’t find anything currently online, but the Internet Archive has this:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100620114728/https://www.waterrower.com/en/accessories_software_spec.htm

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Hi, I am playing around with your great work and try to understand what you are doing as I want to reuse your project for something I would like to implement with the WaterRower.

I have following challenges at the moment: a) The Waterrower (Performance Monitor IV) does not start to send data. If I connect with WeRow and start rowing and than switch the cable I can retrieve data. b) In general I am looking for the specification of the protocol of the waterrower but could not find any documentation - can you provide this spec?

Many thanks Christopher

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cmstephan commented 5 years ago

Hi sorry for answering late. I think I have the S4 version 2.1 I have the USB Cable already not the Mini DIN connector as mentioned in the documentation you linked. Which cable do you have? Were you able to get stable data?

At the moment I try to get information from the monitor directly to an ESP8266 wich can send the date to the cloud (firebase). As soon as I get this technically running I have several ideas. a) transmit data directly to e.g. runtastic b) setup tournament for a month (e.g. who rowed the distance of 5 km fastest) c) ...

There are many ideas but typically not enough time ;) Christopher

cmstephan commented 5 years ago

Hi I found following project https://github.com/codefoster/waterrower wich is coded in Node.js (which I am not that familiar with) but there is the spec included for the S4 USB ;)

I will give it a try and see what I can do ...