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[pm2erglib] Any life in this project?

[Simon H. a C. <si...@ho...>]

I could spend a little time on this project -- I've got a PM2, I don't
really like the eRow software and I'm fluent in Java.

Problem is, like many others, I don't have a PC in my exercise room... I'll
have to think about that one.

Anyway, I came across this on the Concept2 site, and hadn't seen it
mentioned in the archives of this list:

PM2+ Interface Specification Home Page
http://rowing.concept2.com/concept2/v02/products/erow/pm2plusspechome.asp

Funny that there's not more interest in this product -- when I was at
college we had a room full of about 20 of these machines, and half a dozen
of my fellow team mates were computer science majors...

Anyone done any thinking about this project lately?

-s

Re: [pm2erglib] Any life in this project?

[Terry B. <ta...@ta...>]

Well, I have been thinking about it. I've been rowing, I also like java and
I would like to be able to at least capture sessions. And import them into other
programs. I saw that the spec came out and have it here on my desktop totally 
unread. So maybe I'll read it and see what I can make of it. (OK I just read it).

At one time I had considered using the commapi so pm2 applications could run on Unix,
Win or a Mac. But the Commapi doesn't seem to be that viable. Blackdown has a version for
Linux, I'm not sure that most Mac's even HAVE a serial port any more so I think maybe the Mac is out.

So at this point I'm not sure that the Commapi is worth using with java. Maybe the thing to do is to define a standard interface that can be implemented as a) JNI to a windows DLL or b) JNI to a Linux library or c) a commapi interface. The advantage of a JNI interface is that the same DLL or Library could potentially be used by a C programs as 
well.

Next is the definition of an api to access the data?

Terry

At 11:33 AM 3/1/02 +1100, Simon Holmes a Court wrote:
>
>I could spend a little time on this project -- I've got a PM2, I don't
>really like the eRow software and I'm fluent in Java.
>
>Problem is, like many others, I don't have a PC in my exercise room... I'll
>have to think about that one.
>
>Anyway, I came across this on the Concept2 site, and hadn't seen it
>mentioned in the archives of this list:
>
>PM2+ Interface Specification Home Page
>http://rowing.concept2.com/concept2/v02/products/erow/pm2plusspechome.asp
>
>Funny that there's not more interest in this product -- when I was at
>college we had a room full of about 20 of these machines, and half a dozen
>of my fellow team mates were computer science majors...
>
>Anyone done any thinking about this project lately?
>
>-s
>
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Re: [pm2erglib] Any life in this project?

[Simon H. a C. <si...@ho...>]

Terry Braun wrote:

> Well, I have been thinking about it. I've been rowing, I also like java and
> I would like to be able to at least capture sessions. And import them into
> other
> programs. I saw that the spec came out and have it here on my desktop totally
> unread. So maybe I'll read it and see what I can make of it. (OK I just read
> it).

If/when I have time to work on the project I'd start with Java because:
- it is multiplatform (and I'm a mac user primarily -- though I've done my
fair share of Windows programming).
- Windows users can already use eRow, so you're not getting much bang for
the buck making a windows only solution
- Unix/Linux app programming is not my forte -- I've only done limited X
programming, and I didn't find it very rewarding
- I enjoy Java :-)

> At one time I had considered using the commapi so pm2 applications could run
> on Unix,
> Win or a Mac. But the Commapi doesn't seem to be that viable. Blackdown has a
> version for
> Linux, I'm not sure that most Mac's even HAVE a serial port any more so I
> think maybe the Mac is out.

Macs nowadays all have USB, but many Mac users sooner or later go out and
buy a USB->serial converter. As far as commapi, the good folks at
jmri.sourceforge.net (Java Model Railway) appear to have worked out all the
java serial issues. (The mac version of javax.comm was written by Patrick
Beard -- who, incidentally, I used to work with, though he wouldn't remember
me...)

With comms out of the way, the database is probably the next issue. Either
you go with MySQL or perhaps even more simply, there is at least one stable
Java SQL DB on sourceforge that should be easy to use --
http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net/

Enough for today...
-s

Re: [pm2erglib] Any life in this project?

[Patrick M. <pe...@th...>]

Simon,

I have an interest to keep this project going, however, I am not a java
programmer.  I am fairly proficient in C and somewhat in C++.  I am
interested in recording my workouts and saving them in a database.  I
look forward to what others have to say about their interest.  I'll
chime in shortly...


On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 17:33, Simon Holmes a Court wrote:
> 
> I could spend a little time on this project -- I've got a PM2, I don't
> really like the eRow software and I'm fluent in Java.
> 
> Problem is, like many others, I don't have a PC in my exercise room... I'll
> have to think about that one.
> 
> Anyway, I came across this on the Concept2 site, and hadn't seen it
> mentioned in the archives of this list:
> 
> PM2+ Interface Specification Home Page
> http://rowing.concept2.com/concept2/v02/products/erow/pm2plusspechome.asp
> 
> Funny that there's not more interest in this product -- when I was at
> college we had a room full of about 20 of these machines, and half a dozen
> of my fellow team mates were computer science majors...
> 
> Anyone done any thinking about this project lately?
> 
> -s
> 
> 
> 
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Cheers,

Patrick

Re: [pm2erglib] Any life in this project?

[<sy...@sy...>]

Hi Simon (and anyone on the list)

Yes, I'm still working on the project. Not really hard, though... But I do
have some ideas I'm planning to convert to code shortly. Some documentation
is also coming, I hope.

What I'm wondering about, in the meantime: How did you find the project
site? Sometime last year, I added it to a number of search engines, but if I
look for it, mostly it doesn't pop up...

sytse

>
> I could spend a little time on this project -- I've got a PM2, I don't
> really like the eRow software and I'm fluent in Java.
>
> Problem is, like many others, I don't have a PC in my exercise room...
> I'll have to think about that one.
>
> Anyway, I came across this on the Concept2 site, and hadn't seen it
> mentioned in the archives of this list:
>
> PM2+ Interface Specification Home Page
> http://rowing.concept2.com/concept2/v02/products/erow/pm2plusspechome.asp
>
> Funny that there's not more interest in this product -- when I was at
> college we had a room full of about 20 of these machines, and half a
> dozen of my fellow team mates were computer science majors...
>
> Anyone done any thinking about this project lately?
>
> -s
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> pm2erglib-public mailing list
> pm2...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pm2erglib-public

Re: [pm2erglib] Any life in this project?

[Simon H. a C. <si...@ho...>]

sy...@sy... wrote:

> What I'm wondering about, in the meantime: How did you find the project
> site? Sometime last year, I added it to a number of search engines, but if I
> look for it, mostly it doesn't pop up...

Anytime I have a programming itch I need to scratch I do a search on
sourceforge to make sure no-one has already started down that path...

It did take me a few searches to find this project though, as the name is
"pm2+ ergometer monitor interface" whereas I was searching for "Concept 2",
"Concept2", "Concept ][" and "eRow".

-s