Please implement ANT+ for radar.
Currently, LocusMap 4 only supports BLE for radar. This means that only Garmin radars can be used at present. Other devices that only support ANT+ are therefore not compatible with LocusMap – although they can communicate with various cycling computers via ANT+. It's therefore quite inconvenient to have to use a separate cycling computer in addition to a smartphone with LocusMap just to have ANT+ for radar. Most (if not all) radars that use ANT+ are compatible with Garmin cycling computers, meaning they use the same protocol and data format for communication. Therefore, implementing ANT+ based on Garmin radar should cover a very wide range of products.
Although there has been talk of discontinuing ANT+, new devices are still being developed exclusively with ANT+.
I like this idea 
Hello olliz,
thanks for the idea. I invested a moment to find out, how many new Android phones support ANT+ nativelly. Well = zero. There are no new phones with this technology. Seems that ANT+ is still well used on specialized hardware devices like some cyclo computers etc., but modern phones does not support it. So it does not make too much sense to activelly develop ANT+ devices in the Locus Map, sorry.
If someone convince me I'm wrong, it will be welcome as I like ANT+ system, but seems that BT plays the main role here.
Hello olliz,
thanks for the idea. I invested a moment to find out, how many new Android phones support ANT+ nativelly. Well = zero. There are no new phones with this technology. Seems that ANT+ is still well used on specialized hardware devices like some cyclo computers etc., but modern phones does not support it. So it does not make too much sense to activelly develop ANT+ devices in the Locus Map, sorry.
If someone convince me I'm wrong, it will be welcome as I like ANT+ system, but seems that BT plays the main role here.
Apparently, current Samsung phones should also understand ANT+ with the ANT+ Radio Service, ANT+ Plugins Service, and ANT+ USB Service (in the Google Play Store). I installed this on my S22 Ultra, but haven't tested whether it actually works. The services installed without any problems, though... The discussion surrounding the discontinuation of ANT+ is interesting... Even Garmin supports ANT+ with the current Edge computer, as do Sigma, Wahoo, and Shimano (all with Bluetooth).
Currently, there are tons of sensors, shifters, etc., that apparently only communicate via ANT+ and therefore only connect to bike computers, but not to current phones, which in turn only support Bluetooth... What I find particularly annoying is that even newly released sensors only support ANT+...
Apparently, current Samsung phones should also understand ANT+ with the ANT+ Radio Service, ANT+ Plugins Service, and ANT+ USB Service (in the Google Play Store). I installed this on my S22 Ultra, but haven't tested whether it actually works. The services installed without any problems, though... The discussion surrounding the discontinuation of ANT+ is interesting... Even Garmin supports ANT+ with the current Edge computer, as do Sigma, Wahoo, and Shimano (all with Bluetooth).
Currently, there are tons of sensors, shifters, etc., that apparently only communicate via ANT+ and therefore only connect to bike computers, but not to current phones, which in turn only support Bluetooth... What I find particularly annoying is that even newly released sensors only support ANT+...
You can install these ANT+ apps, but without hardware support, it is useless. This support is not included in the new mobile phones, so the only choise is using USB stick: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/10997/ . This should work ...
Still some sensors with only ANT support? Hmm, probably manufactures consider users with only mobile phones as a too small user-group.
You can install these ANT+ apps, but without hardware support, it is useless. This support is not included in the new mobile phones, so the only choise is using USB stick: https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/10997/ . This should work ...
Still some sensors with only ANT support? Hmm, probably manufactures consider users with only mobile phones as a too small user-group.
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