{"id":3057,"date":"2010-01-09T15:17:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T15:17:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-04-18T22:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T22:54:51","slug":"cant-get-it-all-polar-s725x-and-linux-not-best-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/?p=3057","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t get it all &#8211; Polar s725x and Linux not best friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have been struggling quite hard (at least on my level it was hard (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PbT6raJ_wfM\">Jackass p\u00e5 lavt niv\u00e5<\/a> )) to enable my installation of Linux to read from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bikecyclingreviews.com\/The_Polar_725.html\">Polar 725x heart rate monitor<\/a> but now I have raised the white flag. Since I&#8217;m not a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/C_%28programming_language%29\">c-programmer<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vidarholen.net\/contents\/junk\/s725xdump.html\">hardcore<\/a> Unix\/Linux administrator I must admit that I find really hard to struggle with low level IR-issues combined with the need to run <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Make_%28software%29\">make<\/a> to install the software that should read the exercises. And when that is done, I must install another <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saring.de\/sportstracker\/index.html\">application<\/a> to view the data. <\/p>\n<p>I think my next option will be to try out Windows XP running on a VmWare-image, or worst of it all&#8230;dual boot&#8230;annoying because it would just be because of the Polar SW not running on Linux.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;a bit angry since I actually got to install <a href=\"http:\/\/daveb.net\/s710\/\">s710<\/a>, and by using <a href=\"http:\/\/linuxmanpages.com\/man8\/irdadump.8.php\">irdadump<\/a> I know that my laptop and the watch are communicating. But running the Polar Protrainer on Linux using Wine enables all features except the use of IR&#8230;doh! I&#8217;ve seen some postings of people who has managed that as well, but that is far beyond my level of knowledge. Sometimes Open Source is not as open as people say it is&#8230;ok, I know how to read the code, but my God it is a long way before I can do anything with it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have been struggling quite hard (at least on my level it was hard (Jackass p\u00e5 lavt niv\u00e5 )) to enable my installation of Linux to read from my Polar 725x heart rate monitor but now I have raised the white flag. Since I&#8217;m not a c-programmer or a hardcore Unix\/Linux administrator I must admit that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14546,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3057\/revisions\/14546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hellem.org\/wblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}