Asha article winner aka Sports Tracker HRM, part 3

Nokia developer runs various competitions from time to time, this time a wiki article competition on how to use features of the Asha platforms for health issues.

First I was like, eh, that is a hard topic to write something about, what ever could that be?

Then my tiny brain made the Bluetooth connection, I've been playing with the ST HRM belt, and this motivated me to concentrate on it a bit more. So I submitted an article on how to use the HRM belt from a Java ME application. And well, result below:

Goodie bag :) Asha 501, headphones and USB emergyncy charger

Asha 501

Some Sports Tracker ST HRM 2 protocol progress

I got inspired to play with the HRM belt again. The most important field was actually quite easy to find, but there are some fields that are still a mystery. Anyway, my findings for now are documented in a github repository, with some data dumps if you like to help out decoding the mystery fields.

I also made a simple J2ME application for testing, it even worked on the first try, damn I'm proud. I'll post that to github too after some minor cleanups.

J2ME ST HRM2 test application

My first ever J2ME app, Radio X3M, submitted to Nokia Store QA!

Yep, I did it. My first real J2ME app. And it even works. Now hoping QA does its thing to get it out there.

Oh, you are wondering what it is ? A it's dedicated YLE Radio X3M application for listening to the radio streams offered by the Finnish broadcast company of their Swedish speaking youth radio channel, including display of currently playing song, the program for today and also their news feed. As a added bonus it displays the currently playing artists image. For now it's only for the full touch Asha phones.

Test version screenshot, final is a bit different

YLE already offers apps for the Top-3, Android, WP and iPhone, but they don't seem to care for other devices, so I decided to do something about that.