About

SportsTracker is an application for people which want to record their sporting activities. It is not bound to a specific kind of sport, the user can create categories for all sport types such as cycling, running, swimming or tennis.

The main advantage is a good overview of your exercises and you can easily create diagrams and statistics for specific time ranges and sport types. In the calendar you can also track your body weight or create note entries, e.g. the training plan or upcoming sport events.

All the application data is stored in XML files. So it should be easy to access it with other tools or to write importers and exporters for other applications.

If you own a heartrate monitor with a computer interface you can display the recorded exercise files and evaluate the diagrams with the integrated ExerciseViewer application.
You can organize them by attaching the recorded files to the exercise entries. When adding new exercises you can import the data from the recorded exercise files.

ExerciseViewer supports Polar, CicloSport, Garmin, Timex, Oregon, HOLUX and Kalenji heartrate monitors. This is the current compatibility list (other monitors might work too, but I can't test them, user feedback is welcome):

• Polar S610(i), S710(i), S720i, S725 (tested)
• Polar S510, S520 (tested)
• Polar S410, S625x (tested, HRM files only)
• Polar RS200SD (tested)
• Polar RS400, RS800 (initial support)
• Polar CS600 (tested, HRM files only)
• Polar F6, F11 (tested)
• CicloSport HAC4, HAC4Pro, HAC5 (tested)
• Garmin Edge (tested with Edge 500 and Edge 705, FIT and TCX files)
• Garmin Forerunner (tested with Forerunner 305, 910XT, FIT and TCX files)
• Garmin Oregon (tested with Oregon 450, GPX files)
• Timex Ironmen Race Trainer (tested)
• Timex Ironmen Run Trainer (tested)
• Timex Ironmen Global Trainer (tested)
• Oregon Scientific SmartSync WM100 (tested)
• HOLUX FunTrek (tested with FunTrek 130, GPX files)
• Some Sony Ericsson mobiles (tested with W580i)
• W Kalenji 300, CW Kalenji 700 (tested, GPX imports)
• All devices recording GPX files (tested some models)

Users of heartrate monitors with an integrated GPS receiver (e.g. the Garmin Edge series) can also view the track of the recorded exercise in an interactive map viewer component.

SportsTracker itself is not able to download the exercise files from the heartrate monitor. You need to use one of these tools for it:

• s710 for many Polar models (S6XX, S7XX, ...), you need at least version 0.19
• rs200-decoder for the Polar RS200 monitor
• RS400 Tools for the Polar RS400 and probably RS800 monitor
• F6 Split Tool for the Polar F6 monitor (also needs 'rs200-decoder')
• SonicRead for the Polar S510 and S520 monitor
• HAC4Linux for the CicloSport HAC monitors
• SonyEricsson Importer for some Sony Ericsson mobiles
• kalenji-gps-watch-reader for Kalenji GPS watches

Screenshots

• Exercise editing and ExerciseViewer (Linux) (version 5.0.0)
• Overview diagram (Linux) (version 5.0.0)
• Creation of statistics (Linux) (version 5.0.0)
• Exercise track in map viewer (Linux) (version 5.0.0)
• Exercise editing and ExerciseViewer (Mac OS X) (version 5.5.0)

News

• 2013/01/13: Version 5.7.0 has been released. The major changes are support for reading and displaying Garmin Forerunner 910XT and Timex Ironman Run Trainer exercise files. The error handling of the exercise parser has been improved and the spanish and german translations were updated.
• 2012/08/30: Version 5.6.0 has been released, which brings some nice new features. The Overview diagram can now display statistics per sport subtype and per equipment usage. The map viewer component shows tooltips with detailed informations for all recorded track points of your exercises.
  Mac OS X users can now also use Java WebStart for installation. An OS X app bundle is available too, it's size is only 9 instead of 67 MByte before. It requires the installation of Java 7 Update 6 or later.
  Other changes are Calendar and Diagram improvements, bugfixes, refactorings, updated libraries and translation updates. As always, all details can be found in the changelog.
• 2012/08/02: Hint for Java WebStart users: If you have problems when updating an existing SportsTracker installation via Java WebStart, then you need to manually uninstall SportsTracker first and install it again by pressing the WebStart button on this page. The reason is a new certificate for signing the application, the old one expires in 2013. Thanks to the users for reporting this problem.
• 2012/07/24: Version 5.5.0 has been released. The focus of this release is the improved Mac OS X support. The installation on OS X (10.7 required) is now very simple, just download the archive of the app bundle and move it to your applications. The required JRE is included.
  Other improvements are the new high resolution application icon, exercise files check after startup, project and build system updates and bugfixes for Timex PWX users.
  All details are listed in the changelog.
• 2012/03/18: Version 5.4.0 has been released. The biggest change is the switch to Java 7 and the usage of the new language features. All calendar entries can now be copied to the current date, so entering new entries is done much faster. The context menu for the entries is now available in all views. Alex Wulms has greatly improved the GPX exercise parser, it also supports Garmin Oregon and HOLUX FunTrek devices now.
  As always, this release also includes other minor changes, bugfixes, refactorings and translation updates. All details are listed in the changelog.
  Note for Mac OS X users: Java 7 for OS X has not been released yet, but you can use the developer preview available here. Unfortunately Java WebStart is not completed yet, so you need to download and install the binary version of SportsTracker.
• 2011/07/30: Version 5.3.0 has been released. It includes minor usability improvements and an important bugfix for users of GPX execise files. The libraries have been updated and the build process has been improved. SportsTracker now also runs with the recently released Java 7.
• 2011/02/27: Version 5.2.0 has been released. The biggest changes are the support for the widely used GPX file format and the support for Timex Ironman Global Trainer exercises. As usual, this release also contains some bugfixes, refactorings and translation updates. All details are listed in the changelog.
• 2011/02/27: Version 5.2.0 has been released. The biggest changes are the support for the widely used GPX file format and the support for Timex Ironman Global Trainer exercises. As usual, this release also contains some bugfixes, refactorings and translation updates. All details are listed in the changelog.
• 2011/02/25: The SportsTracker project has joined to sportgeek.org. This website collects high quality free software sport projects and provides the latest news at one single place.
• 2010/08/28: SportsTracker 5.1.0 has been released. The ExerciseViewer has now full support for the Garmin FIT exercise file format (e.g. for Garmin Edge 500), the conversion to TCX files is not needed anymore. The Track panel got many improvements, it displays all lap split positions on the map now. Here's the changelog with more details.
• 2010/07/11: SportsTracker 5.0.0 is finally ready and it contains a lot of big changes (see the changelog for all details). For developers there was the migration to Maven and Mercurial and the split of the project into 3 separate modules (see below).
  Users will see the most changes in ExerciseViewer. It was renamed from PolarViewer because it supports much more devices now. A new Track panel was added for displaying the exercise track (if available) in an interactive map.
  Garmin TCX files are now supported completely (incl. track data). Robert Schultz has added support for Timex PWX exercise files and Philippe Marzouk has added support for PolarPersonalTrainer data.
• 2010/07/08: For the third year in a row, SportsTracker is pleased to have BetUS sportsbook on board to support the ongoing efforts of the SportsTracker developers. Many thanks!
• 2010/05/16: Major changes in SportsTracker development: Today I've completed the transition from Subversion to Mercurial for source code management. The Mercurial repository starts lean with the latest SVN trunk (version 4.2.1) without the history. SVN will stay online for accessing the history only.
  The project was splittet into 3 modules (SportsTracker, ExerciseViewer, Util), circular dependencies are not possible anymore. The Ant build script was replaced by a Maven multi project. More details can be found in README.txt and CHANGES.txt (in the Mercurial repository).
• 2010/05/11: Version 4.2.0 has been released with lots of changes. The biggest are: initial support for Garmin TCX exercise files, superb Mac OS X support (menu bar integration, Mac shortcurs, critical bugfixes), Overview diagram improvements and an external bulk importer utility for importing all HRM files at once.
  Many thanks to Mathias Obst and Jiri Polcar for their contributions! Here's the full changelog.
• 2010/01/09: Version 4.1.1 has been released, which contains bugfixes, translation and library updates. All users of Polar S*** monitors need to update, there was a date bug in the file parser.
• 2009/10/04: Version 4.1.0 has been released. The columns in the Exercise List view are now configurable and all Spinner controls have mouse wheel support. Many internal libraries have been updated (e.g. Guice 2.0). The durch, french and german translations have also been updated and some minor bugs were fixed.
• 2009/09/04: Luka Cehovin has written an application for importing exercise data recorded with Sony Ericsson mobile phones into SportsTracker (tested with W580i). The source can be downloaded here, the Java application must be compiled first (not too hard).

Requirements

SportsTracker is an application for the Java platform written in Java and Groovy. It was developed and tested with the Sun JVM, other JVM implementations will probably work too.
For running the Java WebStart or binary version of SportsTracker you just need the Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE) 7 or greater, which can be downloaded here.

If you want to download exercise files from your heartrate monitor you need one of the tools listed above.

The application was tested on GNU/Linux (e.g. Ubuntu 10.04), Windows XP/Vista/7 and Mac OS X (10.7), although it should work on all systems with the required Java Runtime Environment.

Installation

The most easy way to install SportsTracker is to use Java WebStart. If you have the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed, simply click the launch button:

Once the application is installed you can simply launch it by using the WebStart client or create a shortcut for it. New SportsTracker versions will be detected and installed automatically.

If you don't want to use Java WebStart you can download the ZIP archive with the application sources or the binaries from the SportsTracker project page. The application bundle for OS X users is also available there. Please see the included README.txt file for detailed installation instructions.

Contact

Please use the forum and the bug system on the project page when you have comments, suggestions or problems with bugs. If you want to contribute improvements or translations, feel free to discuss it and send a patch.

License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

by Stefan Saring ( 2013/01/13 )