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Bells, whistles, battery life and Bluetooth, find a device best suited for your training. There are tons of GPS devices on the market and they come in a variety of shapes, forms and functions. We know it’s hard to know the differences and most importantly which ones play nice with Strava, because not all watches do. There are some really cool things happening in the GPS world and we wanted to highlight a few of our newer integrations with Strava. Each of these five devices has some unique characteristics that differentiate them from one another.
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Get the details on which have full color screens, show your elevation, can go swimming with you and wirelessly upload to Strava. Suunto Ambit 2r The to the Ambit lineup (which all now work with Strava) is optimized for runners with customizable screens for trail running and indoor training. You can easily track your splits, elevation and GAP as you hustle up local hills in pursuit of CRs. Bypass the visit to Movescount and directly upload to by connecting your accounts,.
Bia Made for triathletes, this sleek two-piece device is not only water resistant to 50m, but the battery also lasts well over ten hours. It also has an SOS safety alert function, in case anything happens while you’re out training alone you can alert friends and family. No need for a cord or a computer with the – you can upload anywhere via cellular data. TomTom When it comes to GPS, more is not always better. This is a minimalist watch in both size and display. You can easily navigate from one clean screen to the next. You don’t even need a chest strap to track your heart rate as the has a built in wrist sensor.
Quickly upload on the go with Bluetooth smartphone sync or plug in to the web. Leikr The screen is 2” in size and only has two pages to navigate between. The has a beautiful colorful map and a five field detailed breakdown of your activity. It’s also the first device to have WiFi upload directly to Strava.com.
Soleus It’s pink – what else is there to say? Well, it’s also a solid value and simple interface. The 1.0 is just $99 and is available in a variety of colors at the. It syncs with a cord and is water resistant up to 30m. We are continually working to get you more options to choose from when tracking your GPS activities on Strava. If there is a device you love, let us know about it in the comments below.
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I did have the Crane HRM watch a few years ago before i got my Garmin. The first thing to go wrong with it was the buttons falling out. So maybe a question mark on the build quality but $99.00, 2 yr wnty and a think he said in the video, 16hrs in gps mode is a positive. Cheers for the info redbackrun. I was toying with buying a watch for my first Ultra, so with a potential battery life of 16 hours, I'm very tempted. Especially for $99. I can't really justify the cost of a Garmin, when I'd really only use it for 1 race this year.
Includes chest strap, USB cable and bicycle handlebar mount. Features: Compass, 4 training modes, GPS navigation routes and calorie consumption. 30m water resistant. Batteries included. Available in assorted colours.
Export your run or cycle data to popular apps using.gpx file. View map image.
Watch instructional video I tend not to use Windows, OSx and such. In fact I keep a WIndows machine for the sole purpose of getting my Garmin watch data!!. I am wondering what file transfer mechanism they use. USB connections can be some sort of serial port ( like Garmin do) or a mass storage device. Very interesting. It would be ver cool if its a simple mass storage and I can just grab GPX files. I managed to survive the scrum, and get a watch.
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The functionality looks great, and setup/menu navigation is easy. I'll be taking it out for a test drive tomorrow morning Did the same Pom.
Any idea how to download the driver? - got to the and no further I went this arvo and couldn't find them anywhere, was thinking I had missed out until I asked the kid at the tills and he said he had a few left under the till.quality.
Will get it out the box and have a play tonight, get it charged and then game on. First time for me at the Aldi Saturday sale table. Some of those 80+ year old grannies held their own throughout the push and shove. Two packs of sox for me. Are they any good?
What I do know is that I can buy 17 pairs for the price of one Thorlos. Look forward to Pom's DCRainmaker review on the watch.
The Aldi sports socks are the best. I still like my Thorlos for special events but the Aldis are the day to day numbers. Bought some for 2 sons and daughter but thet still pinch mine. Well I scored one. I must admit I still am not clear on how to work it.
Took it for a 14 km run this morning to compare against 'map my run' on the Iphone. Interestingly Map my run shows 14 k's & Aldi watch shows 31km & a route all the way to Gladesville & a work out time of 2:38. Might have something to do with the fact that I drove to Gladesville this morning!! I have a sneaking suspicion that I may not know what I'm doing! I could not for the life of me get the damn heart rate monitor to work -that frustrates the hell out of me too - not that I would know what to do with the information, but it's new & should work! I will persist.
Look forward to seeing how everyone else fares!! Excuse me from intruding on your forum (running isn't my thing), but you guys seem to have the most active discussion so far about this watch. And some who seem interested in getting it working under Linux. I got mine yesterday, paired up the HR strap, turned stuff on, figured out some configuration, blahblah, and recorded a token bit of data. Jumping forward a few steps forward for now.
I installed the GPS Master software from on my wife's Windows PC, transferred the data off the watch, exported it as GPX, uploaded it to Strava (I'm a cyclist, Strava is where I record stuff), and there it was. Locations, elevations and heart rate. Now, backing up a few hours. I installed GPS Master on my Linux PC, using Wine.
The software installed without a hitch, and runs fine. Other than the communicating with the watch thing. That just gives me a big 'Message: No virtual COM port found' dialog, with an 'OK' button to dismiss.
When I plug the watch-on-cable in to my computer, lsusb gives me: Bus 003 Device 002: ID 10c4:ea60 Cygnal Integrated Products, Inc. CP210x UART Bridge / myAVR mySmartUSB light I've established from various threads that this is the default identification of a CP210x chip, which is a cheap serial-to-USB converter. Dmesg tells me: 55 usb 1-1.2: new full-speed USB device number 13 using ehcihcd 82 usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=10c4, idProduct=ea60 93 usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 99 usb 1-1.2: Product: CP2104 USB to UART Bridge Controller 04 usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: Silicon Labs 08 usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 00645E55 09 cp210x 1-1.2:1.0: cp210x converter detected 96 usb 1-1.2: reset full-speed USB device number 13 using ehcihcd 05 usb 1-1.2: cp210x converter now attached to ttyUSB0. So it appears the device is correctly identified, drivers loaded, and activated as ttyUSB0. Googling for ideas, I've learned a bit about wine (and also a bit about WINE;-) ), and how it uses I/O ports.
One needs to link Linux's device to WINE's virtual COM port thus: ln -s /dev/ttyUSB0 /.wine/dosdevices/com1. And made myself a member of the dialout group thus: sudo gpasswd -a.myusername.
dialout Logged out and back in again, and had another try - and got the same 'No virtual COM port' error. So, that's me out of ideas. As far as I can make out, my Linux system knows that there's a device there to be talked to, and GPS Master wants to talk to it, but doesn't know how. I'm optimistic that there will be a recipe to make it happen. But I'm not enough of a geek to know how to do that. I just hope we can find somebody who is. What say you, running-type people?
G'day Pom, I have 'paired' the damn thing more times than I care to count! - I will pull the battery & give it another go next weekend. In the meantime, If I have a pulse, I'll just assume my heart is still beating & continue on!
Not sure there's much else to try if it has paired. Once I start a training session, the watch seems to detect the HR immediately. If yours doesn't, perhaps it is faulty? Hold the 'mode' button to pull up a mode menu. Move down the menu using the 'lap/reset' button until you get to HRM, then select it with the 'view' button.
Use the 'view' button to select 'On/off' (the first menu item) - this toggles the HRM function on and off. I think mine was 'off', right out of the box - I had to figure out the above process before I could record HR. Hi Long time lurker. I have my watch working fine and have downloaded some runs to my PC, all of which was pretty easy to work out but I cannot get the A-GPS data to download. The little loading screen locks up if you press cancel but if you let it run its course if 'aborts', with no error message other than a 'data transfer aborted' message. A similar thing happens when I check for firmware updates.
Only a guess but I am not sure if there is a connected server of the other end doing these 2 jobs. Just wondering if anyone else had any luck? Thanks Edit - This is in Windows 7 with the firewall turned off. Edited by froodo, 08 July 2013 - 03:40 PM.