After running more than 50 kilometers and almost 6 hours with the Vi, there is still no coaching effect. On the contrary, the “intelligentsia” talks to me less and less, and recently it hasn’t even advised me to take smaller steps. She only tells me that last time I slowed down at the end and that this time I should please keep the pace. What she measures, but apparently doesn’t evaluate: I always walk up a mountain at the end (well, not a real mountain, the Elbberg holds, but at least more than 25 meters difference in altitude), and she should understand that. Supposedly, one of the next software versions will take this into account.
After I had “fought” my way through the support forum, it was clear to me that it was not up to me. An email to the support, who then answers immediately despite Saturday evening. I should please uninstall and reinstall the app. OK. And what is the point of that? “Apologies for any confusion. I just took a closer look into your log files and it looks like you are running into a calibration issue.” And now I’m waiting for the bugfix I hope that the data collected so far is not useless and I don’t have to start all over again.
Other points of criticism:
- The power button is not very responsive, sometimes you have to press for a very long time until the device is turned on.
- I don’t understand the logic with the Spotify lists, I definitely won’t get into running mode that way. But first of all, solving the missing intelligence is more important to me.
- In the forums, users complain that Lifebeam had running on the treadmill in the Kickstarter video, but this functionality is now not available. And without further ado, the video was also removed. Supposedly, however, this functionality is still to come.
- The battery lasted 3 runs for me, so probably less than 3 hours.
I’ve definitely gotten fitter now, at least I can do the Elbberg better now. But I could have done that with Runkeeper.
What’s cool is that you get the raw data. Apparently every second is logged, and this is what the data looks like:
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53.5439109802246
9.93943977355957
3.01765032412035
2380.0
Value>157
158
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In principle, you could also do something with this data yourself…