Bipolar aims to be a convenient GUI application for exporting activity and exercise data from Polar's sync software. Specifically, its intended to provide a way to get your own data from Polar's new V800 watch, via Polar FlowSync, but other devices (as well as Polar WebSync) may be supported too eventually.

The release plans is roughly as follows:

• 0.0.1 Working hook DLL for extracting data from Polar FlowSync on Windows.
• 0.1.0 Export to both GPX and TCX, in a headless mode (no GUI yet).
• 0.2.0 Mac OS support (both hook library, and headless app).
• 0.3.0 Basic GUI.

Note, while the current (0.1.x) release includes a lot of behind-the-scenes code for parsing training session data and exporting to GPX and TCX, the GUI has been intentionally left ultra-bare at this stage. This, of course, is to allow people (like myself) to begin capturing and exporting data as soon as possible, while the GUI bells and whistles can wait for a later release (currently planned for 0.3.0).

When Bipolar is installed, it places a custom DLL into the Polar FlowSync application directory. This custom DLL then writes all training session data it sees to binary files (in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Polar\PolarFlowSync\export).

The installer also installs a separate Bipolar application, which, when exectued looks through all training session data exported above, and, for any that don't already have corresponding *.gpx and/or *.tcx files, converts those sessions to GPX and/or TCX accordingly.

For the current release (0.1.x) this Bipolar application is extremely simple in user interface - it basically just displays a log of its activity. The UI will be made more featureful sometime in the future, but it already does the most valuable thing - converting all training sessions to GPX and TCX.

The Bipolar Google Group is available for general discussion, questions, comments, suggestions, announcements etc. Email bipolar-app@googlegroups.com to subscribe.

Of course, the issue tracker is also available for reporting issues, asking questions, making comments and suggestions, etc.