There has been a lot of work of late going into Golden Cheetah and a new major announcement will be made later on in September that we are all very excited about.
Since the last update several changes have taken place. The first, is D.J Connel has produced a mega patch that will determine your Critical Power based on your current rides. D.J uses a very long and quite complex algorithm to detect what your critical power is based on your various rides. You have the choice to use it, or ignore it.
He also added some very nice UI improvements that help indicate where in your various zones you rode.
D.J also added code that indicates zones entered for the Pf/Pv plot.
This will be an important introduction as Long Term Metrics (LTM) takes hold. Speaking of which, I have been working on this. I can now scan your entire Library of all your rides using all the various file formats and enter in the summary data into a sqlite database. GC can also update with new rides.
What I am working on now is a graph that shows you a timeline of all your rides with the amount of bike score points you accumulated. Each of the rides is selectable which brings up the actual ride. I am hoping to have this in for the next release which is scheduled for early September.
Ned Harding who produces our Windows builds, not to mention hacked up the ability to download from the Powertap using the new D2XX device drivers on Windows, also produced an incredible piece of code which allows the user to split their ride. Say you started a ride in the morning, then finished it off later that afternoon but with an 8 hour break. GC will allow you to split that ride into several new rides. It will also suggest where to split that ride. Fantastic stuff.
Eric Murray also submitted a patch that will allow users to manually enter a ride for those days you couldn’t use your Power Meter.
One final change to GC which has been checked in allows for GC to be run off a USB stick. Not all the final touches have been made but we are not far off. So a user will be able to load GC onto a USB stick and run GC with his entire library from that USB stick.
This final feature was implemented in order to support a new device which will feature Golden Cheetah! I still can’t quite say which device but it will be showcased at Interbike 2009 in late September.
One final code change to announce. Sean, with the help of Rainer, was able to implement a SRM7 import.
Other changes to Golden Cheetah have been the introduction of git which replaces svn. Our repository is now here: http://github.com/srhea/GoldenCheetah.
So lots of really exciting stuff with lots more to come.
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mitsukuni 12:11 on November 2, 2009 Permalink
Hi,
Great work!
I am hopefully support full function on MacOSX
BTW,
I can’t find quarqd_messages.py & ant_messages.py.
Where can I get those scripts?
Thanks
jknotzke 07:13 on November 13, 2009 Permalink
You can find the quarqd stuff here: http://opensource.quarq.us/quarqd
It’s still not working under OS X ;-( The developer is busy with other stuff. But he’ll get to it.
mitsukuni 12:07 on November 19, 2009 Permalink
Thanks.
I testing current version of GoldenCheetah under Mac.
Japanese powermeter users interest in this project