Personally I make such a small amount from any single customer that its almost meaningless unless they can reach many 100s of customers. What would cause alarm & Im fairly sure at least a letter from a lawyer would be someone trying to make some cash hosting our films & or data. Im fairly sure they have been told by Garmin to sever the link between it & TTS4. Also remember that Garmin Connect costs Garmin millions to develop & actually makes the company nothing in return, again its there as a tool for their hardware (watches & edge) customers can directly use.Īs for TTS4 etc I cant see them being bothered if an individual tries to get more out the older film collection & software. The primary goal is to sell trainers & have something that looks great & does the job directly, hopefully, while making enough in subscriptions to at least fund its self. Its kind of obvious they have a fairly large budget but no actual desire to compete head-on with the alternatives out there. I think they have almost achieved that goal.
I don't think that's the reason for moving to a subscription Mike, It was more the competition had already started down that road & Tacx simply wanted a solid option for its own customers to use from opening the box with no surprises that was simple to use. It is entirely possible that creation of an encrypted TTS file using TTS1 conversion could be seen as creation of a derivative work, which could be covered by copyright laws as well.
In addition, I believe the terms of the TTS end user license agreement could be interpreted as restricting use of the conversion function to the licensed user of TTS1 on the user's own computer and would not allow distribution or sale of such encrypted TTS files to others. But there are not that many folks who have a copy of TTS1 running. Yes, the TTS1 conversion function was a big loophole in the system, which may be part of the reason that Tacx finally decided to phase out TTS. Would be such an easy thing to stick an altitude in there but I've not found it yet. I am looking for a way to find the starting altitude for tts that don't have gps location. Maybe tacx could lighten up on it now that they've turned off their license servers? It would be nice if there was a public spec for tts instead of just me guessing about stuff. I could sort of kind of write a tts writer now if I wanted to. Not sure why they're gone and haven't been deposited on GitHub. I can't seem to find any tools that old threads reference. So someone was making them for 3rd party. TTS: The CH_Umbrail ride from alucard came with a tts. I remember a few programs like RLV Cockpit, RLV Studio, and Tacx Run Copy, but they are all very old. There was quite a bit around for the non-encrypted PGMF and RLV control files used for the old Fortius program, which only worked with a 32-bit OS. I do not recall very much in the way of TTS tools as the TTS control files are encrypted. $7/month sounds like a pretty great deal for the few months that I'd use it per year. I don't know if I could say no to 4k video of that gorgeous climb. Is difficult to imagine that I'd ever pay to be Tacx' customer after what they just pulled on you all. I'm frankly surprised they did it because it is so hard to win back customers after they get all butt-hurt. Who does that? Bankrupt game studios? It is pretty much the disaster that everyone speculates will happen with closed eco-systems. Screwing with encryption is already hateful and bad from my perspective, but then they actually turned off the license servers. And now browsing the forum it looks like the new tacx subsidiary of garmin isn't good to their customers. I try hard to not be a subscription person. I want a real time maaap… Is going to need to be my next task for golden cheetah but I so hate doing ui.Īs far as me getting a tacx trainer. Makes me cringe to see that layout because of that map. I bet there's some friction between them and management.
Very professional looking ui, some dedicated people put some good thought into it and I suspect they know they nailed it. If that team isn't being appreciated then I feel bad for them.
I don't own a tacx trainer so can't use that software but I know good when I see it. You should tell Tacx, I think they are unaware how much this Desktop App is actually liked.