meeTrainer

Turn your N9 into a full 

GPS sport-computer!

Track your sport and workout! Do it in real time! With meeTrainer you turn your magic Nokia N9 into a real sports computer.  meeTrainer uses your N9's bluetooth and gps receiver to give you all the exercise parameters you need,such as current heart rate, speed and caloric consumption, as well as total distance, elapsed time and much more. meeTrainer features a low consumption monitor mode, similar to the N9 standby screen, that allows you to always have everyting under control during the exercise.

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FEATURES

"What does meeTrainer have that I (and especially SportsTracker) don't?"

meeTrainer

• Consumes very little battery while operating, allowing to track longer exercises
• Monitors your exercise: by using the monitor window (see below), that can be always on on very low brightness for battery life purposes, you can always have your exercise information under your eyes
• Can save your exercises data to CSV files, which are easy to import from other applications
• Filters the gps data to provide more accurate distance and average speed information
• Avoids the SportsTracker life-killer pop-up "turn internet connection on", appearing every 2 seconds if you have no internet connection (which is often the case during exercises)
• Charts your workouts: you no longer need to upload your exercise somewhere in order to have a look at how you performed!

CURRENT LIMITATIONS

meeTrainer currently only supports  Polar Bluetooth HR chest belts (the only one i have).
If you are interested in using meeTrainer with other brands of bluetooth chest belts, please contact me.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For any question, suggestion, feature request, support request or help offers, please contact me via e-mail at THIS address.

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DONATIONS

meeTrainer is a free application that I decided to develop on my spare time. If you like this program and you think it does a great job for you, or if you think it's a good start, but it would be great to have this or that feature added, you can also support the development by donating few money to the project 

SCREENSHOTS / INSTRUCTIONS

Some notes: meeTrainer includes an advanced brightness management option that is able to dim the display more than it would be normally possible, and save more energy. However, due to a bug in the software of the Nokia N9, it is not possible to easily disable the automatic regulation of the phone screen brightness.
Therefore, when using the advanced brightness management option, as soon as the light sensor detects a change in the ambient light, the screen brightness will be resetted automatically.
If you use the phone together with an armband, it's likely that the armband shield the light sensor, and you should be good to go.
Otherwise, to circumvent this problem, you may try something like this:

FUTURE WORK

There are already some plans for features that will or should be added to meeTrainer. Below a list of what I am already planning to work on. If you have other great ideas for meeTrainer, please write me!

• Support more HR belts (if i manage to get them to test)
• Offline maps for showing the trails (i will only support maps if they can be accessed also offline, either via a cache, or via a native Qt plugin for ovi maps)
• Charting and graphing of saved exercises
• More advanced GPS data filtering
• Step counting
• Gpx exporting 
• Limits and limits alert
• Routes and best times
• Web interface and cloud storage for the exercises

CHANGELOG

Version 0.2.5

- Support for Zephyr HxM chest belt

Version 0.2.2

- Support for SportsTracker HRM chest belt
- Workouts list page improved: now with monthly summaries
- Workout detail page improved: more information provided and charting of the time series data
- Settings page reworked. 
- Hr zones added (not showing in the workout details yet, though, but the information is there)
- Plenty of bugfixes and core rework

Version 0.1.0

- initial release

HISTORY OF meeTrainer

I want to share with you how meeTrainer was born, because i find it interesting.
This april (2012), after about 12 years of yeoman service, i decided that it was time to switch from my old Nokia 6510 (made in Finland, still working) to something smarter. Not because i really had a compelling need for it. 
In fact my sister got a good android phone last summer, which i fiddled around with for quite a while, ending up with the thought "Cool. So what? Cant really do much with it..". 
But this february, a friend (by the way, thanks, Tero!) showed me this cool N9 , which is really almost a pocket linux, it's probably the most beautiful smartphone ever made, it has the most amazing user interface i've ever seen and used on a handset, it takes really good pictures for being a phone, and, above all, it is still made in Finland! (and it will probably be the last smartphone ever made outside asia, at least for a while). So i thought that this was really my last chance, and i bought one (in fact two, as one has been stolen).

One of the things i always wanted to do, once i had a smartphone, was using SportsTracker.
After having done a lot of sport in my teens using polar hr monitors, I really enjoy monitoring my workouts, and, being N9 a Nokia phone, I expected it to have a fully featured version of SportsTracker (if you didnt know, SportsTracker is a Nokia spin-off).
But real life is always different from what one imagines. And in fact, the SportsTracker version for N9 sucks hard (my opinion. But if you every tried it, then you know. If you havent, then try and see).
After some days of disappointment, i started to think how to sort this situation out, and i came up with an idea. "Well, maybe i can check if SportsTracker has a job opening for Qt/MeeGo". They had. One. So i decided to apply. I've done something with Desktop Qt, i never developed anything for smartphones before, i had no idea how to deal with gps and bluetooth at all, i had no idea what protocol do these bluetooth HRM belts speak.
So i offered SportsTracker to work for free, in exchange of some crush course on how to deal with the stuff. They would have got their work done for free. I would have got my SportsTracker N9 app fixed, and learnt how to do mobile apps. But hey, they never ever came back at me.

So, the end of the story is.. i went for it on my own, during my spare time off work. It even turned out to be something relatively easy and quick to do (as most things in life, once we overcome the initial fear of the unknown). It has also been a fun way to learn how to create mobile apps.
However, meeTrainer has stil lots of space for improvement, and lots of bugs that should be fixed, and my plan is to keep working on it on my spare time, so that it will become even better.As you can see above, there is already a ToDo list. 
But i still hope that you like it already, and that you can make good use of it, as much as i do. 
And if you have suggestions or bug report, dont hesitate and contact me. 
Also, if you want to support me developing this application, you can use the Donate button on this page to donate a few money to the project