sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Sorry, im sure i must be mistaking in some way. This is my first problem with this wonderful tablet. the N900, and this wonderful OS. Or better, the first im not able to solve by myself by simply lurking on this wonderful forum.
here's the "problem": i read on maemo select site and in other posts of this forum that ecoach is capable to display tracks on various map, althought you have to restart it for doing so. Problem is im not able doing that: ive restarted, ive checked every part of it, ive unistalled and reinstalled it but it never let and/or ask me to change map source. its not so important, the default map is just good, but id like to see my tracks on virtual earth, if its possible. thanks

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

May I share your thread? I am also having issues with eCoach. I am a wifi only user I have no internet stream to my phone via my phone service so I was hoping I can download maps ahead of time or just have the program record my gps data and apply it ot a map later (and export it to my PC if possible) I started up the program and it got my GPS location but it doesn't seem to move when I move and its just on a white screen with no map, yet when I have connected to the program with wi-fi it just loads a map showing me the south pole, and when I load my gps data file it doesnt seem to do anything with it.

My goal is to take my N900 with me for a mountain bike ride and have it record my journey then later on see what that path looks like on a map, it would be really nice to see how far I went, how fast I went, and what that crazy off road path looks like on a map.

Any guidance on how to do this would be very much appreciated.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Once you have your new activity, and the map is displayed, there is a "Map Source" button in the menu (click on the window title). You need to restart eCoach for the new map to display.


The way I do it:
Click on "New Activity" on the main screen. Enter some info, and OK. You're then in the map screen, click on "Rec" to start recording. Go for your ride, and click on "Rec" again once you're done. You should see the track in red of where you've been. If you close the map, and go into Activity Log, it gives you a bit more data on speed and distance.

Note that you need a data connection to get the initial GPS fix. If the internet connection dies after that, I think the map stays blank, but it'll still record your track (as long it's got a GPS signal). It saves the .gpx file in the eCoach folder.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Hey

There seems to be a bug...user cannot properly use eCoach without network connection because the map engine will keep asking for data connection even the current maptile is already downloaded.

I will have to take a look at this. (I actually never used my N900 & eCoach without data connection :) )

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Is there a way to increase the "refresh interval" of ecoach updating gps speed & location? Now there's about one-two seconds interval and when driving a car with high speed the program doesn't track everything (car moves many meters in one second)... It also would make the map move "smoother" if it gets update more frequently, I think.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

tracking your sports activity (ecoach) in a car is missing the whole point somehow ;) we could use another 'tracking' or 'waypoint' application better suited for capturing routes...

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Well.. that wasn't exactly what I was asking or was it? ;)

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

thank you Slocan I finally found it! I didnt notice that the window tile was clickable when starting a new activity. Thank you Sampppa for developing such a fantastic app. At the moment I've only used it with data connection but I could like to use it without it in the future too.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Thanks, thats what I need it to do.

Ether:

A.) Be able to download the map tile ahead of time and store it (this is how all 3 of my gps programs work on my netbook)

or

B.) Just record the gps data and locations and save them and later on apply them to a map when I get a data connection.

Im a broke guy, cant afford the $80 a month or so for a data connection that I will almost never need. Everywhere I go has wifi.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

At least the bluetooth based external GPS devices usually only give you the location once in a second (I don't know about the internal ones in N810 and N900, I don't have either one). You'd have to interpolate in between.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Yes, that's what I was looking for. I suppose all "real" GPS navigation softwares uses interpolation and tries to guess where you were between those location-burses the gps gives you?

But with eCoach the interval is several seconds, so I guess it would be possible to tune it to receive the signal from gps more often?

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

There is a setting in the settings view for GPS update interval.

//Sampo

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Update interval-setting isn't for heart rate monitoring device? For me it doesn't seem to have any effect on gps...

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

I just looked and it specifically says GPS on the interval-setting.

On another note, is there a manual or instructions somewhere for ecoach. I've tried to get it to work a couple times but have been unsuccesful. I hit record, but there is no track made when I'm done and hit record again. Is there supposed to be anything in the Data field when recording and moving?

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Same problem here but I was under the impression thats because I did not have a data connection at all times.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Figured out my problem. I didn't have the GPS enabled in the phones general settings. Doh!

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

This is problematic for me as there is no network (read cellular) connectivity in most of the parks I am running nearby my place. This kind of spotty cell coverage is most unheard of in Europe (or in Finland) but pretty commonplace in U.S. - even on the hills surrounding Silicon Valley...

Hartti

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

I would buy N900 just for this app! I love cycling and this app helps me a lot.
Well you can't store maps offline but what I do is before I go out, I usually know where I will be cycling around. I open ecoach at home where i have wifi connection and I scroll the map around places I will go to. This loads map parts that will be used later. Of course program is keep asking for network connection when you out there, but at least it also displays where I am and map that has been downloaded in advance.
It's not ideal but its working for me and regards to the author!

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

A quick ?

How do you save the data to the activity log? I can't see anyway to do it.

Thanks

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Its not a bad idea but the problem is that it will record the stuff that is not part of my ride and mess up the tracking and statistics, unless you mean you do not have to press the record button until you start riding and only have to open ecoach while still in wifi.

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

I too have this problem.

I ran two tracks today and ecoach recorded them beautifully then I couldn't figure out how to save it to the Activity log.

Eventually on both occasions I exited the program and got the warning "Are you sure?" to which I said "No" and it exited anyway!

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

You just stop the recording by depressing the record button again. It will prompt with "are you sure" as it will reset all stats ready for your next exercise.

Then just retrieve hyour session via the Calendar app. :cool:

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

Im having some problems using the zephyr heart monitor which I bought yesterday

It has had a full charge
I have paired it successfully with the n900
Under settings in Ecoach it lists 'HXM003433' in the device section as my heart monitor, but I have tried two training runs, and although Ecoach records my journey, I have no data for heart rate
I have configured the setttings and then Im selecting new activity, name it and then press record.
Is there a step that Im missing - do I have to tell Ecoach somewhere to record heart data?
I have never used a heart rate monitor, so just to check, it is the fabric from the chest strap that has to be in contact with the skin? Just to make sure it is not a silly error like that :)

Any ideas how I can troubleshoot this?

Many thanks

Re: sorry im surely mistakin something with ecoach on my e900
 

wow didnt realise it added an event to the calandar,, learn something new everyday,, cheers