Travman 6 #1 January 29, 2016 There's an article about a skydiver/developer that has written an app for the Microsoft Band 2 to turn it into an alti. I am personally firmly against using altimeter not purposed built for skydiving such as Suuntos, but it's an interesting project none the less. http://www.windowscentral.com/someone-has-made-microsoft-band-2-altimeter-app-help-skydivers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mxk 1 #2 January 30, 2016 Microsoft documentation says that the barometer sampling frequency is 1 Hz: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=4762794#4762794 However, I took a quick look at his code and it seems that the Windows SDK, unlike Android, allows specifying a 128 ms sampling rate. Interesting... I just got a pair of Band 2s at work, so I might investigate this further. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Joellercoaster 6 #3 January 31, 2016 Definitely worth your time to investigate but: the SDK can allow you to specify a high frequency and obviously your application can sample as often as it wants, but if the hardware can only update once per second, a lot of those samples are going to say the same thing The SDK may be future-proofing. -- "I'll tell you how all skydivers are judged, . They are judged by the laws of physics." - kkeenan "You jump out, pull the string and either live or die. What's there to be good at? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
