7 ms·
OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker
- speps 3y agoI was briefly excited that it was related to the classic video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Run https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_Run
- jakearmitage 3y agoI knew I couldn't be the only one. Does this serve as a consolation prize, though? https://github.com/djyt/cannonball https://github.com/djyt/cannonball
- tobiasbischoff 3y agoI'm in the EU and very excited that i possibly could compile and sideload apps like that to my phone soon.
- voisin 3y agoYou don’t need to side load. It is available in the App Store.
- Rygian 3y agoParentçs point is to compile and upload their own version.
- marcellus23 3y agoYou can do that now.
- tibu 3y agoProject seems to be dead.
- dietr1ch 3y agoFrom #91 an asked an hour ago, > I wouldn't necessarily say abandoned. I still work on it from time to time, but progress is very very slow and I cannot prioritise it over other things atm https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun/issues/91 https://github.com/timfraedrich/OutRun/issues/91
- jamil7 3y agoWhich is fine but they didn’t merge any PRs either. I might have a go at a fork of this but I don’t take a phone with me running or track them these days.
- voisin 3y agoI see ways to sync new runs but no way to import all past runs from Apple Health
- sen 3y agoI’ve been wanting something like this but so long, and had it on my list of projects to potentially try making. All I need is basic tracking of my walks/runs to motivate myself, and have zero desire for all the other bloat most fitness apps have.
- apatheticonion 3y agoI really want this for sleep tracking. There are so many devices, each have their own algorithm for sleep tracking and the device I pick largely depends on the accuracy of the device's sleep tracking. However there are new apps, like Nukkuaa, an (EU only) sleep analysis app that uses any heart-rate tracker (like a bluetooth fitness chest strap) and infers sleep quality from the data. A generic app expands what devices are available to me. Right now I use CGM tape and stick a Fitbit Charge 3 on my tricep - but I dislike the Fitbit app and if I change to another brand I cannot export my logs. A third party app has the potential to train against more data than any individual single brand could and, with appropriate tagging, could possible offer better accuracy. Open source would be icing on the cake. Additionally, it would be great if devices like the Fitbit Charge could be used as a bluetooth heart rate monitor that can be used on apps that consume trackers on a (presumably) standard API (like TrainerRoad, Zwift, etc). - https://www.nukkuaa.com/en https://www.nukkuaa.com/en
- justinc8687 3y ago> Additionally, it would be great if devices like the Fitbit Charge could be used as a bluetooth heart rate monitor that can be used on apps that consume trackers on a (presumably) standard API (like TrainerRoad, Zwift, etc). The new charge 6 does have this capability. [0] [0](https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/14236705 https://support.google.com/fitbit/answer/14236705)
- apatheticonion 3y agoFantastic! I am hoping this is an industry-wide trend
- sushisource 3y agoThis has already been the case for primarily fitness oriented GPS watches / heart-rate trackers / etc for some time. Bluetooth, but even longer using ANT+, which is quite a bit more battery efficient.
- clintonb 3y ago
- INTPenis 3y agoWhat about an Android alternative?
- mynjin 3y agoI've been using FitoTrack from the F-Droid appstore. It works fantastic, offline, private, and looking at the screenshots of the Outrun app have very similar look & layout.
- amomo 3y agoRight ! And Paseo for steps counting is quite good for my needs too
- qurm 3y agoAlso Gadgetbridge on F-droid
- tonetegeatinst 3y agoSecond this. Wish they had a better layout for supported devices and you could sort by device type....but overall this seems like the best for privacy
- harry8 3y agoUsed to use this with Lenovo watch X. Worked ok, private, inexpensive. Avoid the Lenovo app. What else works well with gadgetbridge? Any ios equivalent?
- byt3blight 3y agoI use open tracks
- shshshshsh 3y agoI second OpenTracks[0]! I use it for running, hiking, snowboarding, exploring potential terrain, etc. I can then export easily the data in QGIS3. [0]: https://opentracksapp.com/ https://opentracksapp.com/
- neilv 3y agoOpen-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker... for Apple iOS.
- neilv 3y agoOpen source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket): https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Screenshots https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree... Incidentally, I'd love to have an open source, privacy-respecting nutrition tracker that works on open source desktops. (I find my laptop much, much faster than phone for recording this data, at least in the ad hoc way I'm doing it, including things like weights of every ingredient that goes into a dish.)
- hombre_fatal 3y agoThe hard part about a nutrition tracker is the data. The most complete nutrient data for basic foods seems to be http://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/ http://www.ncc.umn.edu/food-and-nutrient-database/ which you need to pay for, so I wonder how an open source implementation could work. I use Cronometer daily which shows you the datasource for each food you add, and if it's not NCCDB (the one at the link above) then chances are it's not going to have much info. Yet that extra info is exactly why I'm using a nutrient tracker rather than just a calorie tracker.
- ward 3y ago> Open source related application, for open source desktops like Linux (unfortunately not for open source Android/GrapheneOS currently), there's Alex Harsányi's ActivityLog2 (which is an impressive application in Racket): > > https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree https://github.com/alex-hhh/ActivityLog2/wiki/Just-The-Scree... In that realm, there is also GoldenCheetah: - https://www.goldencheetah.org/ https://www.goldencheetah.org/ - https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah https://github.com/GoldenCheetah/GoldenCheetah
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- gen220 3y agoI started building something like this for myself (as a CLI tool, so way less ambitious). It’s a pretty fun project with a tight feedback loop. Parsing GPS data is surprisingly simple. It surprised me to learn that different apps will “smooth” out measures like elevation and distance — it’s actually quite a rich problem space with a few interesting solutions.
- bartread 3y agoI realise naming is hard but, as a big fan of Sega's iconic 1980s arcade racing game and its sequels - and at willing risk of sounding a little bit gatekeepy - I must admit that I don't particularly appreciate this project's appropriation of the name OutRun. Also, it doesn't appear to be getting a lot of activity, which suggest it's perhaps not a going concern.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y agoI immediately thought of the arcade game when I saw the name
- bitwize 3y agoI'd be happier if it played Magical Sound Shower or something while you were exercising.
- Moru 3y agoI thought is was a very good use of the name, much better than on a car game.
- iamacyborg 3y agoGiven that there’s no mention of fitness trackers, I assume you need to record the activity on your phone? That’s not ideal, but I’m definitely not the target market as I’m happy to buy one of the higher end Garmin models.
- SoftTalker 3y ago[flagged]
- sampli 3y agoI’ve been using outrun for a year now and it’s really great! Always nice to see a good product featured on HN
- ionwake 3y ago[flagged]
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- bmitc 3y ago"... tracker iOS app"
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- bhakunikaran 3y agoI wonder how Patrick thinks new tech like blockchain or AI might change the way we handle money. Will it make things easier, or will it bring new challenges?
- richrichardsson 3y agoI'm quite surprised Sega's lawyers didn't already come knocking over the name for this in the previous 4 years.
- astroid 3y agoI'm not - it's not even a remotely related industry. That's not how this works.
- richrichardsson 3y agoIt's a name for two (admittedly entirely unrelated use case) pieces of software. Just because something may or may not stand up in court doesn't automatically preclude lawyers from sending Cease & Desist letters or what ever. Just look at the nonsense from Take Two claiming that Remedy's new logo is too close to the Rock Star logo [1]. Any reasonable person wouldn't confuse the two, but still the lawyers are involved. [1] https://www.gamesindustry.biz/take-two-reportedly-in-trademark-dispute-with-remedy-over-logo-design https://www.gamesindustry.biz/take-two-reportedly-in-tradema...
- carra 3y agoSeeing both "OutRun" and "tracker" in the title I thought this would be a thread about synthwave music (which would be very cool).