Originally Posted by
John_V
The nice thing about the Mini is that you can use any decent cycling app with it. The only reason I can see for using the companion app is to pair it to the phone so you can set up the Mini or to change something later on. Since you don't receive notifications on a Mini, the companion app is sort of useless once the setup is done.
You can pair your speed (or any other dual band) senor to the Mini via Ant+ and also pair them to your phone, through the cycling app, via BTLE. You can now use your third party cycling app as you would the companion app but with all the features of the third party app not found in the companion app.
The Mini does display call and text notifications.
If I was to use another app then that’s more hassle. The whole point of using the Mini (in my use case) is so that I can leave my phone in my backpack and never touch it.