I’ve been walking more and more since I bought a walking pad for my desk setup.

Recently, I’ve been getting into Japanese Walking: www.novanthealth.org/healthy-h…

I’ve been Japanese Walking using an interval timer while I walk around my yard, but it’s been impossible to do while working at my desk. I needed a method that would allow me to mindlessly walk at alternating speeds, with the speed changes happening automatically, so I can concentrate on work.

My walking pad came with both a remote and an iOS app that allows me to control it, but neither of them has support for intervals.

I did some research and found that apparently many walking pads, (including mine, the UREVO CyberPad) use a standard Bluetooth protocol called FTMS!

So I wrote an iOS app that uses that protocol to speed up and slow down my walking pad automatically. I just step on, connect to the pad, start the app and go. It manages the rest. I have no plans to release the app because I don’t want to get sued by someone for a bug that makes it speed up unexpectedly and causes them to fall or something. I just wanted to publicly say that it’s possible.

There’s an open source project: github.com/ColasNaha… that does this too, but I couldn’t get it to work.

Man, I love open standards.