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using CyclingPeaks on a Mac

country bulldog

Oct 29, 09 9:44

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using CyclingPeaks on a Mac	Can't Post

Anyone had success using Cycling Peaks on a Mac, specificaly with an SRM? Also, has anyone been able to use SRMWin on a Mac? Thank you for any help.

nebmot

Oct 29, 09 9:55

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [country bulldog] [In reply to]	Can't Post

There is a product called Crossover for Mac that does windows emulation (wine) on a mac. It creates a "bottle" that acts like a windows installation. I was able to get the program to run, but it wasn't 100%. The graphs show up in scientific notation and I never attempted to download from a device. In my oppinion it's better to just go with RaceDay. It works 100% and the new version 2.0 that is coming out in January is going to crush anything that WKO has. Another thing to consider, WKO hasn't been updated since February of this year. That's for ever in a software cycle.

chrisyu

Oct 29, 09 15:58

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [country bulldog] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I got WKO+ v2.2 to work with Crossover. The current WKO+ (v2.2) seems to be built with dependencies on driver files that are not included with default bottles in Crossover. The drivers are associated with MS Visual Studio C++ v6.0 and you can get it to work by installing that on the same Crossover bottle (if you can get a copy of it). It may be wise to wait a bit for WKO+ v3.0 (which I am told is being released in a matter of "weeks"). Let's hope that they have removed dependencies on various (old) MS drivers...it would make life a lot easier for Mac people.

Note: If you're willing to run Windows via VMware/Parallels/etc., the current version of WKO+ has been known to run fine (with the exception of some file corruption issues on Parallels if I remember correctly).

Chris

Cobble

Oct 29, 09 16:10

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [chrisyu] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I also run WKO+ fine on a mac using Parallels. Two issues I have experienced are
- a corrupted file which caused my 'profile' to get lost (turned out it wasn't that dififcult to fix, but I had to create a new rider and copy all the data from my old athlete file into the new one)
- not being able to download data directly from my powertap into WKO+. I need to read the data first using Poweragent and then convert it. I have a similar issue with the Polar 725, for which I also can't download the data. It's caused by a communication issue between parallels and the mac, maybe it can be fixed, not sure.
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pdavis10

Oct 29, 09 18:35

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [Cobble] [In reply to]	Can't Post

I use VMWARE fusion to run Windows XP on my Mac. Works great. I am able to upload everyting

JamieJ

Oct 30, 09 1:25

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [country bulldog] [In reply to]	Can't Post

buy raceday from Philbert here on ST. Google physfarm for info. Great software, great support, 2 great books and native to Mac.
Jamie
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Andrew Coggan

Oct 30, 09 7:15

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [chrisyu] [In reply to]	Can't Post

In Reply To:

It may be wise to wait a bit for WKO+ v3.0 (which I am told is being released in a matter of "weeks").

I don't know the intended release date, but the beta version I've been testing is looking awfully close.

clyde_s_dale

Oct 30, 09 7:20

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Re: using CyclingPeaks on a Mac [pdavis10] [In reply to]	Can't Post

+1 on vmware fusion being a great product for WMO, been using it for a while

the trick is to not do the "import PC" but to do a clean install of windows xp

clyde
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