You’ll simply join the KinoBottle to your WiFi network and then you’re ready to go.
COMPUTRAINER AND MAC PC
Sticking out the top is the USB connector that controls the CompuTrainer using the PC port on the handlebar controller. The bottle is effectively a fancy packaging for what is essentially a Raspberry Pi control unit, a WiFi USB adapter, and a battery pack lasting a number of hours. Currently, there’s no technical way otherwise for any tablets to control the CompuTrainer due to the CompuTrainer being a fully wired system.
COMPUTRAINER AND MAC ANDROID
The cool part here is that this would then enable Kinoamp (an iPad & Android app) to control the CompuTrainer. They’ve developed the KinoBottle, which is a little unit that puts your CompuTrainer on a WiFi or Wired network. They support a number of trainers in the market today, and their work with CompuTrainer that I’ll describe here continues to expand on that. Next we’ve got Kinomap, the app that allows you to ride course videos via trainers of your choice. Or, as I’ll cover in the next section, apps like Kinomap can apply some special sauce to get a bit further via WiFi. It just means that wired devices like a PC or Mac can talk to them. Now, do keep in mind that at present this doesn’t mean that they’ll have ANT+ or Bluetooth Smart control support. The major exception being the Wahoo KICKR which is fairly well documented publically from an application development standpoint.Īt present CompuTrainer doesn’t have plans to open up to the ANT+ Trainer Control platform, like other companies such as Elite Trainers (by end of calendar year) and BKOOL (TBD date) have committed to. Looking at other companies, this approach is similar to those other trainers. Rather, Racermate will grant applications on a one by one basis access to utilize the platform.
COMPUTRAINER AND MAC SOFTWARE
Open source is generally defined as software that any developer can download the source code to and read/tweak/improve/etc. Of course, as I pointed out to them (and they conceded), it’s not quite ‘Open Source’. While this work was done in conjunction with Kinomap, it’s something they’re going to make accessible to other developers. In order to address that they worked with Kinomap to develop a binary file that allows developers to interact with the platform.
They noted to me that they felt these apps did a poor job in recreating the “physics” behind CompuTrainer’s replicated inertia aspects. Options that Racermate (the company behind CompuTrainer) weren’t terribly big fans of. Prior to this week, the vast majority of applications out there that interacted with the CompuTrainer did so via backdoor options. CompuTrainer’s ‘Open Source’įirst up is potentially the beginning of CompuTrainer opening up a bit more. This week at Interbike, both CompuTrainer and Kinomap have made a number of announcements around application control and usage with the CompuTrainer trainer.
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