Radar sound extension
Extension which allows configuring radar alerts.
https://github.com/itxsvv/kxradar
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What I mean by this is that you can program a Di2 or SRAM Axs button to simulate a bicycle bell with the Karoo. This is also possible via Ki2, but the ringing is very quiet and it would be brilliant if there was a programmable bicycle bell. Similar to the sound for the Garmin radar
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+1 for a Bell. See previous requested here:
https://support.hammerhead.io/hc/en-us/community/posts/32276491640731-Bell-on-KAROO-3
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This is an awesome extension that makes me finally want to use audio radar alerts. Thank you so much for this, it really works great!
Question, is there any way to hear the radar audio alerts without having to hear the turn-by-turn direction alerts? I still find those a bit annoying.
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Hi Serge,
I've sent a pull request to your github repo which adds a setting toggle.
The new setting, if enabled, will wake the screen on a threat detection if the screen is off.I've found that if you have powersave mode on, the screen is sleeping, and the radar is muted, then the screen remains off which makes it more difficult to judge the distance of the approaching vehicle.
This modification will wake the screen up so you can see the target distance. I just did a test ride with this mod and the screen goes back to sleep after your set timeout period. Ideally it should remain active as long as the threat continues, but my Android programming skills aren't good enough to make that happen.
You might also notice that I changed the logcat dump to say:
Log.i(TAG, "Threat detected: " + threatLevel.toString())On my ride today, "yellow" threats were logged as threatLevel = 1.0 while "red" threats were logged as 2.0
I may add a beep loop that simply beeps the "threat" frequency the same number of times as the threatLevel. That is, threatLevel = 1 gets 1 beep, threatLevel = 2 gets 2 beeps, etc.
That would be a different pull request though.
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I also looked into what it would take to put radar info into the fit file in the same format that MyBikeTraffic uses. But unfortunately, it looks like there's a couple of blockers on the Karoo.
The Garmin CIQ extension is writing the target distances for all 8 targets into a single field as an array. The same is being done for the target speeds. The Karoo extension kit doesn't seem to include a way to write an array into a developer field.
Additionally, the CIQ app is getting and storing the target relative speeds, then calculating the absolute speeds based on your current speed. Unfortunately again, karoo-ext doesn't appear to provide the target speeds. Only target range and overall threat level are included.
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