IpSensorMan on Windows Pc
Developed By: Ifor Powell
License: Free
Rating: 4,1/5 - 350 votes
Last Updated: April 16, 2024
App Details
| Version |
2.1.5-minApi24 |
| Size |
1.7 MB |
| Release Date |
February 07, 23 |
| Category |
Libraries & Demo Apps |
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App Permissions:
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming. [see more (3)]
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What's New:
Fix crash related to Android 12 and 13 changeing permissions for Bluetooth.If on Android 12 or 13 open IpSesnorMan and press the search button to re-do the... [see more]
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Description from Developer:
IpSensorMan Manages talking to various sporting sensors using ANT+™ or Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces. Using a separate app allows multiple client apps to access t... [read more]
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About this app
On this page you can download IpSensorMan and install on Windows PC. IpSensorMan is free Libraries & Demo app, developed by Ifor Powell. Latest version of IpSensorMan is 2.1.5-minApi24, was released on 2023-02-07 (updated on 2024-04-16). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 100,000. Overall rating of IpSensorMan is 4,1. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 350 users, 18 users had rated it 5*, 187 users had rated it 1*.
How to install IpSensorMan on Windows?
Instruction on how to install IpSensorMan on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop
In this post, I am going to show you how to install IpSensorMan on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...
Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.
[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.
Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.
If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!
Step By Step Guide To Install IpSensorMan using BlueStacks
- Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
- Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
- Once installed, click "IpSensorMan" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D
[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more
[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.
How to install IpSensorMan on Windows PC using NoxPlayer
- Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
- Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
- The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "IpSensorMan" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.
Discussion
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IpSensorMan Manages talking to various sporting sensors using ANT+™ or Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces. Using a separate app allows multiple client apps to access to the sensors simultaneously. Most of the hard work for talking to the various standard sensors is provided by the app simplifying the client apps. Simplified information is broadcast to any registered application that wants access to the sensor data.
This product is ANT+ certified and complies with the following specified ANT+ device profiles:
Bicycle speed data
Bicycle cadence data
Bicycle combined speed and cadence data
Bicycle power data
Heart rate data
The following are supported but have not gone though certification yet.
Stride Based Speed and Distance (footpod)
Environment (Garmin Tempe)
Running dynamics
Bike Radar
Fitness equipment control (FEC). Trainer control.
Shifting
Suspension
Dropper post
Remote control
Muscle Oxygen
Bike Light
Polar Wearlink®+ transmitter with Bluetooth® and Zephyr HxM BlueTooth Heart rate monitor support added with 1.2.6
Bluetooth Low Energy / Bluetooth Smart support for the following.
Heart rate
Bike speed and cadence
Bike power (Only a single sensor not dual pedals transmitting independently)
Running speed and cadence (footpod)
Stryd running power.
IpSensorMan should recognize other ANT+ sensor types although full decoding support is not currently implemented.
Currently the applications using IpSensorMan are:
IpBike an ANT+ sensor based bike computer. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipbike
IpPeloton an app to show details from other ANT+ heart rate monitors and power sensors. So you can easily compare your effort with your riding companions effort. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ippeloton
IpWatts an application to log the data from multiple power sensors simultaniously with a single timebase. Also logs a single Speed, Cadence and Heart rate source. The app you need if you want to compare Power meters.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipwatts
Other applications may well be added.
If you are a developer and want to use this interface then please feel free to email me.
Permission reasons.
Network communications - full Internet access. The crash reporting system want this. Also I collect usage stats via flurry.com. I am really interested what phones it is installed on and what ANT+ sensors it is used with. You can switch this off from the options.
Hardware controls - ANT radio access. I won't be able to do much without this one.
System tools - modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping. There is an option to keep ANT active when the phone is in airplane mode which us useful for saving power, this needs to modify the system settings. You still need to do the airplane mode entry yourself. This feature needs at least version 2.6 of ANT Radio Services. If we are actively monitoring the ant radio the phone will not sleep, the screen may still go off though.
Bluetooth - in order to support the Bluetooth Heart rate monitors.
Location - is needed to be able to access Bluetooth low energy sensors. This is because theoretically you can then see beacons which can be used to get your location. I do not have any Beacon support.
For details on USB Host mode and using an ANT usb stick please see
http://www.iforpowell.com/cms/index.php?page=usb-ant-stick
Fix crash related to Android 12 and 13 changeing permissions for Bluetooth.
If on Android 12 or 13 open IpSesnorMan and press the search button to re-do the permissions.
Add in generic battery state message for all sensors with some battery information.
Use and target api level 33.
Android 13 don't try switching off BT as no longer possible by none system apps.
Switching on BT will bring a system dialog up and require the user to interact with it.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an application to access data from sensors that the user uses to measure what is happening inside his/her body, such as heart rate.
