rubiTrack + Equipment Tracking

[Spooky.iPhone]

Markus,

could you please add an option to define 'default' equipments and tags?

thank you,
Dave.

[berksgr]

Nice piece of work ! Just what I wanted !

One quick question, in the grid view of runs the equipment does not show up in the column.

Is it also possible to hide the inactive equipment from the equipment list on the left of the main screen ?

Thanks

[thibaulthalpern]

So is beta version 2.1.9 - 522 still the latest beta version available? I'm trying to begin to incorporate equipment data into my workouts and would like to use the latest stable beta.

[mspoettl]

The latest stable test version is 550: http://www.rubitrack.com/files/rubiTrack-2.1.9-550.dmg

Regards
Markus

[adamrice]

This is a great idea in principle, but I think it needs to get fleshed out a little more.

If you're a runner and want to keep track of your shoes, that's simple. If you're a cyclist, you probably aren't interested in keeping track of your bike as a single item—you probably want to keep track of your chain, your tires, etc. These are part of the bike, but they need separate handling.

One way to handle this would be to set each one up as a separate piece of equipment, and specify all of them for a ride. For everyday use, that would be cumbersome.

Another way to handle it would be to have a way to indicate that one piece of equipment "belongs to" another, for example, this chain belongs to this bike. This would require a little more setup (and a more complicated data schema), but for everyday usage would be easier.

But even that doesn't cover every situation. Many cyclists have more than one pair of wheels. And they will want to be able to indicate which wheels they used for each ride. The way I imagine handling this would be to be able to tag each piece of equipment with its type (eg, "wheel"); if there are two pieces of equipment of the same type that both belong to another piece of equipment, then when you choose your equipment for a ride, Rubitrack would show a popup menu of wheel options.

So now you've got a three-tier hierarchy, because each pair of wheels has tires that belong to it. For example:
- Bike
-- Race wheels
--- Vittoria CX tires
-- Training wheels
--- Schwalbe Durano Plus tires

Of course, even this isn't enough, since many cyclists have more than one bike, and might swap wheels between bikes, so the wheels need to be able to "belong to" more than one bike. I'm not sure how to model that, but clearly, it's complicated.

Of course, the much simpler way to deal with tracking consumables is to simply make a mention in your ride notes when you put a new chain or tire into service.

[mspoettl]

Of course, the much simpler way to deal with tracking consumables is to simply make a mention in your ride notes when you put a new chain or tire into service.

In addition you could set up a maintenance check for the chain or wheel that's on the bike right now. When you change the tire, you'd also remove the current check and add a new one. You'd have to keep track of items manually though.

That said, I think the easiest way at the moment to do keep track of all individual parts is setting them up as separate items. It sure is more cumbersome to assign to activities.

Groups of items that can be assigned as a whole at the same time - where an item doesn't have to be exclusive to one group - would seem to solve most of your setup possibilities (multiple bikes with multiple wheels, chains and tires that are swapped out), right? This is not going to happen right away but it's definitely interesting to know. Thanks a lot for the input.

Regards
Markus

[randyharris]

I would love to see the Duration indicated in Hours, decimal format.

Just tonight I thought I'd look at the bikes I've ridden and what my average MPH is on them (maybe this could just be a calc on the little badge of info) and it's really cumbersome to figure out overall MPH for a bike when the duration is displayed as: 4:11:12:13 [d:h:m:s], to me 107.20 Hours is a much easier figure to work with.

Or as I mentioned, showing the overall MPH on the icon displayed for each bike would be cool, maybe even ascent/descent and calories just like a regular activity would.

[rswift]

How about a nice simple "Equipment Collection" concept whereby any equipment can be assigned to a named collection ("Race Bike", "Training Bike", etc.) that can be chopped and changed at will but when the collection name is typed in the Equipment box, rubiTrack simply expands the single name into all the currently assigned equipment items? That way it'd be easy to get multiple items into the activity but adding/removing item(s) is also nice and easy... this feature would encourage me to add chain/tyres etc. to my equipment list which I haven't bothered doing so far because I can't be bothered typing all the items...

Just a thought

Cheers - Robert...

[mspoettl]

Equipment Collection

That's exactly what we had in mind. In other words it's on the wish list.

Regards
Markus

[mspoettl]

Duration indicated in Hours, decimal format

Sounds like a new option for the units page. Thanks for the suggestion, added to the wish list.

Regards
Markus