ANT+ (or ANT) example?

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2020-02-24 by HaraldK

Hi,

I got 2 Puck's and a Garmin smartwatch. Both can use BLE as well as ANT. There are unfortunately no examples for ANT or ANT+.

Does Espruino support ANT or ANT+ in any way?

If not, I'll have to go the BLE route it seems.

Harald

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2020-02-24 by @gfwilliams

Hi,

Espruino doesn't support ANT natively at all I'm afraid, however the softdevice used on Espruino does, and @conoroneill had done some work compiling a custom firmware that did some stuff with it I believe?

But if both support BLE, I'd strongly suggest using that instead - it'll be so much easier for you to use and debug the communications with it, since you can use phone apps like NRF Connect to easily show you info about the devices.

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2020-02-24 by ConorONeill

Unfortunately I got distracted with building Espruino on Particle Xenon and never got back to looking at ANT+, sorry :-(

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2020-02-25 by HaraldK

Thanks! I'll heed Gordon's suggestion and use BLE instead then. Especially since Conor didn't work on ANT either.
Works for me. Thanks to both of you for the very quick reply!