ANT+ certified utility app allowing multiple other apps to access ANT+ sensors.
4.33·349 reviews·100,000+ downloads
About IpSensorMan
IpSensorMan is a libraries & demo app developed by Ifor Powell.
Download Statistics
IpSensorMan has been downloaded 200 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 91 times.
User Ratings
IpSensorMan is rated 4.33 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 350 ratings.
App Information
IpSensorMan is FREE to download. The APK download size is 1.66 MB. The latest version available is 2.1.5-minApi24. The last update was on January 1, 2023.
Technical Requirements
IpSensorMan requires Android 7.0+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play February 2012.
Description
IpSensorMan Manages talking to various sporting sensors using ANT+™ or Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy interfaces. Using a separate app allows multiple client apps to access to the sensors simultaneously. Most of the hard work for talking to the various standard sensors is provided by the app simplifying the client apps. Simplified information is broadcast to any registered application that wants access to the sensor data.
This product is ANT+ certified and complies with the following specified ANT+ device profiles:
Bicycle speed data Bicycle cadence data Bicycle combined speed and cadence data Bicycle power data Heart rate data
The following are supported but have not gone though certification yet.
Stride Based Speed and Distance (footpod) Environment (Garmin Tempe) Running dynamics Bike Radar Fitness equipment control (FEC). Trainer control. Shifting Suspension Dropper post Remote control Muscle Oxygen Bike Light
Polar Wearlink®+ transmitter with Bluetooth® and Zephyr HxM BlueTooth Heart rate monitor support added with 1.2.6
Bluetooth Low Energy / Bluetooth Smart support for the following.
Heart rate Bike speed and cadence Bike power (Only a single sensor not dual pedals transmitting independently) Running speed and cadence (footpod) Stryd running power.
IpSensorMan should recognize other ANT+ sensor types although full decoding support is not currently implemented.
Currently the applications using IpSensorMan are:
IpBike an ANT+ sensor based bike computer. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipbike
IpPeloton an app to show details from other ANT+ heart rate monitors and power sensors. So you can easily compare your effort with your riding companions effort. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ippeloton
IpWatts an application to log the data from multiple power sensors simultaniously with a single timebase. Also logs a single Speed, Cadence and Heart rate source. The app you need if you want to compare Power meters. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.iforpowell.android.ipwatts
Other applications may well be added.
If you are a developer and want to use this interface then please feel free to email me.
Permission reasons.
Network communications - full Internet access. The crash reporting system want this. Also I collect usage stats via flurry.com. I am really interested what phones it is installed on and what ANT+ sensors it is used with. You can switch this off from the options.
Hardware controls - ANT radio access. I won't be able to do much without this one.
System tools - modify global system settings, prevent phone from sleeping. There is an option to keep ANT active when the phone is in airplane mode which us useful for saving power, this needs to modify the system settings. You still need to do the airplane mode entry yourself. This feature needs at least version 2.6 of ANT Radio Services. If we are actively monitoring the ant radio the phone will not sleep, the screen may still go off though.
Bluetooth - in order to support the Bluetooth Heart rate monitors. Location - is needed to be able to access Bluetooth low energy sensors. This is because theoretically you can then see beacons which can be used to get your location. I do not have any Beacon support.
For details on USB Host mode and using an ANT usb stick please see
Recent changes: Fix crash related to Android 12 and 13 changeing permissions for Bluetooth. If on Android 12 or 13 open IpSesnorMan and press the search button to re-do the permissions. Add in generic battery state message for all sensors with some battery information. Use and target api level 33. Android 13 don't try switching off BT as no longer possible by none system apps. Switching on BT will bring a system dialog up and require the user to interact with it.
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★★★★★
Works great, I'm using this driver between IP Bike, and Garmin speed and cadence sensors, on a Galaxy S7 edge.
★★★★★
Just what's needed for multi app Ant support Just what's needed for multi app Ant support. Checkout IpBike, Peloton and Watts to see it used. If you are having problems please email me. I can not respond to review coments, but I can help if you email me. support@iforpowell.com
★★☆☆☆
It doesn't work. It cannot detect the garmin sensors.
★★☆☆☆
Confusing I'm not quite sure what this app made for, despite connect to ant+ sensor, I was thinking it can allow me to connect my sensor to multiple apps, but it didn't, every time I start ant service, it never works in the background, so it can provide services for multiple apps
★★☆☆☆
Getting confused App mistakenly recognizes the very ubiquitous Panobike Bluetooth Speed and Cadence sensor as a Panobike HEART RATE sensor. There is no heart rate sensor anywhere.
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