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ELI5: Does this mean that, in the future, I will not automatically see my heart beats on a treadmill without doing any kind of device pairing?

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That could be GymLink, which is a simple 5 kHz LF transmission. It’s also used so that it can work while swimming.

Here’s a discussion about it: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/rf-microwave/looking-for-a-rec...

That was never ANT+ anyway.

That was always ANT+

It was ANT+ for the profile and automatic selection of closest device.

and a consent popup

Did you read the very first sentence of the article?

Yes, and that is why I was asking for the treadmill. The article was confusing from the point of view of the user: go to the treadmill and see your heartbeat appearing. What will replace ANT+ in the future? How sport machines like treadmills will react to this reality? You need two to tango: health devices are only one side.

It looks like they're saying treadmills etc will "balkanize" to build their own protocols. that seems more difficult than something based off bluetooth. i agree that the article gets more vague the longer it got. i guess time will tell.

Bluetooth Low Energy will largely replace ANT+. There has been a heart rate profile available for years which most heart rate monitors support. Unfortunately, most treadmills are kind of crap for connectivity.

https://www.bluetooth.com/specifications/specs/heart-rate-pr...

Isn't that just a BLE broadcast? Wouldn't it have the same fate with this regulation? You only get encryption from pairing, and I don't remember my BLE cadence sensor needing pairing.

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