WaterrowerAntBle VS raspberry-pi-home-automation

They easily could if they added the Ant+ radio hardware. But even with just Bluetooth it's entirely possible with the proper protocols. I mean, if this guy can write software to make it work on a Raspberry Pi, then SmartRow should be able to figure it out.

I’m using pirowflow: https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo

It's disappointing that Garmin's specification sheets don't say this explicitly, but this forum post suggests that Garmin watches can connect via BluetoothFTMS to rowers that support it. And this device supposedly fixes the SmartRow's issues with limited Bluetooth connectivity capabilities.

Ah, yeah, tough. If you're technologically adventurous, you could always try https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo

For any devs/tech tinkerers maybe u/leelooleered's PiRowFlo [GitHub] could be used to replace the ComModule since I see it out of stock from most shops.

I am newish to Flutter and know no other languages. I am wanting to develop an app that will run on Android, iOS, web, Windows etc. The app is require to read (and hopefully write as well) BLE. Initially just from the Waterrower (www.waterrower.com) but hopefully in the future from other rowers as well. The Waterrower has a bluetooth addon (Commodule) which appears to not be very reliable. https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo is developing a Pi based unit which is yet to come on the market but looks very promising. Coxswain is a waterrower app that only works on Android that is written in Java, can uses bluetooth and can also uses a USB cable for direct serial connection. There are a few Flutter BLE libraries (flutter_blue, flutter_bluetooth_serial (based on flutter_blue), flutter_reactive_ble) but they are only for Android and iOS. There is github.com/tbressler/waterrower-core written in Java for connecting the waterrower with Windows, Linux and macOS. I have no idea how the app running in a browser would connect to BLE.

Project is open source: https://github.com/inonoob/pirowflo

This is the link to the github repo: https://github.com/inonoob/WaterrowerAntBle

I have done this, and wrote a book about it: https://koen.vervloesem.eu/books/control-your-home-with-raspberry-pi/.

I'm managing all these services with Docker Compose. This means I only have to backup one directory with the configuration and data of all services, and one file, the docker-compose.yml file that defines all services. You can find all source code of the book in its repository (https://github.com/koenvervloesem/raspberry-pi-home-automation), to give you an idea about how you would manage this.