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What is FTMS?
FTMS is a Bluetooth Fitness Machine Service standard. In Kinni today, support is focused on compatible treadmills rather than every FTMS machine type.
FTMS stands for Fitness Machine Service. It is a Bluetooth standard that lets compatible fitness equipment expose workout data in a more consistent way.
Key details
Section titled “Key details”FTMS can describe several kinds of fitness machines, including treadmills and other cardio equipment. For Kinni support, the current practical focus is compatible treadmills.
On a compatible treadmill, FTMS can expose data such as speed, incline, distance, time, and workout state. Some treadmills can also accept supported app commands, such as speed or incline changes.
Why it matters in Kinni
Section titled “Why it matters in Kinni”Kinni can use supported treadmill Bluetooth paths to connect to a treadmill, read live treadmill data, and control supported hardware during treadmill runs. FTMS is one of those paths.
Kinni’s current app support should be described as treadmill-led FTMS support, not general support for every FTMS machine type. If a device is a bike, rower, climber, or another non-treadmill FTMS machine, do not assume it works with Kinni’s treadmill run flow.
Limits and exceptions
Section titled “Limits and exceptions”- A treadmill can advertise FTMS but still vary in start, stop, speed, incline, or reconnect behavior.
- A non-FTMS treadmill may still work through another supported treadmill Bluetooth path.
- Some data fields, such as treadmill-provided cadence or heart rate, depend on what the treadmill actually exposes.
- FTMS diagnostics are helpful for support, but they are not a guarantee that every workout-control path is supported.
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