Originally Posted by njkayaker

???

You definitely are not following some basic stuff.

We aren’t talking about supporting ANT+. We are talking about supporting a little-used protocol created by a defunct company with (I guess) not many users.

ANT+ is a good standard.

But you need some sort of head unit to use it. (There are/were a few phones that support it but it’s not common.)

The Farina lights used the phone you already owned (no extra head unit was required).

While “fancy” lights don’t (shouldn’t!) need a phone/head-unit to work, the OP wants to be able to use his phone.


???

The issue is that whatever the hell the Farina lights are using, it isn’t ANT+.

ANT+ is a reasonable standard for programmers.

But users still need a head unit that supports it (they won’t generally be able to use the phone they already have).


So what? In this case, they haven’t published the API. It’s very unlikely they are going to.


You don’t program. I do. I’ve written Garnin IQ apps. It’s a lot of work.

It appears supporting the Farina lights would be a waste of time.

For personal use, it would be much cheaper (in terms of time) to chuck them and buy new lights (and, maybe, program for ANT+). For supporting other users, there probably aren’t that many users and, since the company no longer exists, it’s a dead end.