Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Summary ranges - and colours

My colour scheme might be crap but the colours assigned to specific activities in the training summary now match and the week, month, quarter buttons mostly work - they are subject to an off-by-one error (the current day not shown). Tomorrow will fix that and hopefully implement the "Between..." function.

Is activity filtering here useful? Right now the summary can be restricted to dates. Is it helpful to say "summarise only cycling and bear wrestling"? Personally, I'm not so sure. Flexibility is always goood but as this is a spare time effort, I have to consider what's actually useful. I think maybe it is.

Anyway...

1 month view (the default view)



Week View

The week view only shows entries in it with days (derived from today - 7 days)



3 month view

It's the 3 month view that will really show if I've had my snout in the pies.



I've plans to add a weight view, so make sure you add accurate daily weights to your session meaurements and re-analyze those logs in STraM!

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Time is relative

I finally got the labelling for relative time on the X-Axis working. It could use some 15 second minor tick marks and at the moment is fixed at 60 second intervals. This will result in labels overlapping on longer series so I'll need to amend the interval based on the session duration I think.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Screenshots

I've made some good progress this week. There's a lot more to go but it's a start. The training calendar is kind of working (it shows training sessions but you can't 'open' then yet). The session summary is kind of there too.

Anyway, here are a few pictures to get things rolling.

Training Calendar

Kind of "Outlooky". I'm not sure how to handle daily summary info on month views.



Most people know how Outlook handles meetings. Training sessions are considered the same. Here's a week view.

Training Summary

Here, the last month of training (not quite representative as I've had flu and not been training for the last two weeks. The empty dates still need to be shown on the chart and currently aren't) The activity colors on the lower two charts don't match yet but that's on the list of things to fix-up too.


Session Detail

It's not joined up yet but clicking on a calendar entry will display a chart like this.


It's likely that the tabular data will be hidden (and tidied up to a precision of 2 decimal places).

This example session was recorded when my chest strap was suffering the well-known broken contact problen. The speeds are low and the end heart rate shows that I died :-)

First post.

I own a Suunto T6 watch. The tech side of it appeals to the nerd in me and is one of major factors in encouraging me to exercise.

Their software frankly is shit. At best it's functional, at worst an exercise in bad design. I'm not saying that I'll do better but it will meet some of my requirements and hopefully those of other peoples.

Suunto have been un-helpful about an official method of interfacing with their product so my efforts use information that I've been able to find online, common sense and some reverse engineering of the binary file formats.

I'm hoping for suggestions fro you, comments to my suggestions and blah blah blah. Stuff I'd like to include;

- Better sort/find. (Show me all the sessions >40 minutes?. What sessions hit TE >4.0?)

- Nicer graphcs. (It's not the 1980's anymore guys, not even in Finland!)

- Better trending. (How is this year better than last year?)

- Attach to a session and display a Google/Microsoft map for a GPS recording.

- Maybe interface to other training sites like "mapmyrun.com"

I've no idea what else, but Suunto don't seem to be all that responsive so what harm can it do? My work is based from STraM 2.1 (2.2 killed my entire PC so I don't know at this stage if that breaks anything).

This is a project that meets my needs and entertains me (sad, eh?). If it benefits anyone else, thats great, and I look forward to suggestions.