4.14.Using Heart Rate Monitors
The following ways exist to get a
heart rate monitor connected to
Run.GPS
:
●
Real time connection through
Bluetooth (recommended)
●
Polar® We
transmitter Bluetooth
●
Zephyr
™
HxM
●
FRWD B Series
●
Other Bluetooth heart
rate monitors (generic
driver – select “Other
Bluetooth HRM” to try)
●
Adding heart rate data (afterwards) to the training report on the GPS-Sport.net portal
website
●
Polar HRM files (file suffix „.hrm“)
●
Oregon Scientific CSV files (file suffix „.csv“)
●
FRWD Sports Computer TXT (file suffix “.txt”)
Data analysis is very restricted if you add your heart rate data afterwards (only simple
diagrams will be generated). In contrast to that, if you use a real time HRM connection via
Bluetooth, you can overlay the data gathered (heart rate, calorie consumption on basis of
heart rate, …) with the data coming from
Run.GPS
.
Note
: Since only Android 2.0 or greater includes the Bluetooth Serial Port Profile, you can
only use heart rate monitors with Windows Mobile or Android 2.x.
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