Support hardware control for Virtual Active enabled gym equipment
As an owner of a vision fitness xf40 touch screen cross trainer. My trainer has virtual active inbuilt and can talk wirelessly to the virtual active stand alone box, it just seems a natural progression to hook the app up to the hardware, assuming that the wireless frequencies it uses are accessible to the iPad.
I chose this cross trainer solely because of its Virtual active functionality but the limited number of titles available in the UK has really been a disappointment.
I found this app only yesterday and I am really excited about its possibilities. Please hook up to the hardware for resistance changes and also to iCardio or myFitness pal for recording and you will have an essential app that will be pivotal in enthusing people to take more exercise, be healthier and live longer.
Long term the industry should consider creating ANSI standards for providing interfaces between fitness hardware and fitness software so that all hardware and software can talk simply and reliably and the cost to developers and manufacturers is reduced.
Hi – Thank you for the thought out suggestion Dave. I wanted to say up front there isn’t a good way for us to interface with that treadmill directly – it just wasn’t built into the treadmill. I can say the industry is converging around a set of Bluetooth APIs, and as that happens you’ll see better app/machine interaction. I know it’s slower than you would like but we’re getting there.
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Dave Allonby commented
Just to be clear I have the BitGym app running on iPad 2