Ant+ Light support

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James Eastwood

• November 30, 2024 14:00

I'm interested in porting the smart bike lights application from Garmin (MIT license) which allows for more granular control of Varia or other bike lights - for example, acting like a brake light or only lighting up when a vehicle is sensed into he daytime (saving a lot of battery). However, looking at the data definitions it seems like ant+ lights are not supported. Can you confirm?

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  Brent

  • December 05, 2024 21:08

  Thanks for your interest.

  ANT+ lights are somewhat unique in our system because they don't provide streaming data like power or heart-rate do so nothing is exposed yet for lights.

  It sounds like you'd want the ability to get supported light modes and set current light mode. Because these are device-specific and you could have multiple lights connected, you'd also need to get a list of devices (or at least list of connected lights).

  Would that cover your needs or is there anything else you're looking for?

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  James Eastwood

  • December 06, 2024 09:25
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  Yes I think that likely covers it for the light modes.

  However it would need to go beyond just the light modes - it would also be necessary to know when a vehicle is sensed (and perhaps for future use cases, number of vehicles and distance) all of which are exposed via the ant+ protocol I believe.

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  Brent

  • December 06, 2024 13:23
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  Radar is already data that is available: See OnStreamState with data type "TYPE_RADAR_ID" and the associated fields like: RADAR_THREAT_LEVEL.

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  James Eastwood

  • December 06, 2024 13:34

  I had a reply via email that the radar data was already available:

  Radar is already data that is available: See OnStreamState with  and the associated fields like: RADAR_THREAT_LEVEL and data type "TYPE_RADAR_ID"

  but I can't see it here. Is it the case? If so that's great, will just need the endpoints in the first post. 

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  Victor Perez

  • May 04, 2025 14:22

  Will this extension still be coming

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