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And is there only a heart rate profile in Bluetooth LE specifications? Are there no other profiles?

https://bluetoothle.wiki/specifications

So why can there be a Polar BLE footpod, or a Stryd BLE connection? How are they connected? Is it non -standard?

And why is there only a heart rate profile for Bluetooth 5.0 in Matlab, and not also for Bluetooth 4.0?

All this is very confusing.      

Is there a reason not to take over all the ANT+ profiles into Bluetooth LE transmission protocols, and make a set of BLE profiles which is equivalent to the ANT+ profiles?      

For sporting activities on the Ph.D. Level, this should be done, so that also athletes on the Ph.D. level can be happy with Matlab and the Bluetooth 4.0 example in Matlab, so that not only one heart rate sports sensor is available in Matlab, but the whole set of ANT+ sensors:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/533393-are-there-specific-ble-heart-rate-sensor-devices-available-which-are-compatible-to-the-example-model?s_tid=prof_contriblnk
     

Great you managed it. It is a pitty that Matlab deleted all my questions. It was hard work, and there where at least one Matlab supporter wo appreciated it. Matlab harmed to Matlab with this act, since everything I did was in favour of Matlab. It was the act of a supperficial post reader and deleter.

At least we are two now, which is great. Every community starts small. One complained of the Matlab post deleter was, that I was the only one who was interested in these questions. I suppose the deleter was one of the few who could create code which would have solved the problems I asked question about. Post deletion is easy, coding is hard work. Maybe I manage to get back my Matlab questions some day.

Most of the information I put together can be found in my posts in the EEVBlog. You can find the links on my Github page.

https://github.com/PeterGamma
     

"it works with your help. although it take nearly one month to figure it out".

It worked with my help? If so, this is great. Did you manage to read out ANT+ and BLE sensor data, for instance to Matlab (or Python)? One month work should be appreciated, your contributions are very welcome!      

Everybody how is interested in in Matlab and ANT+ and BLE, please complain at the Matlab support about post deletion. It is not necessary to have a Matlab licence for posting in the Matlab community. The projects I tried to connect ot Matlab would fit to Matlab Home version which is about 150 USD.

After I started posting in the Matlab community, Matlab published a Matlab example for sporting activites for BLE which a heart rate sensor and a foot pot, which is great, and is still available. But the rest of my posts, for instance concerning ANT+ are gone.      

Some features that ANT+ provides are not possible with BLE. ANT+ provides much better functionality in many to one use cases such as gyms.

What would be equivalent to ANT+ profiles are defined as services by the Bluetooth SIG under the Generic Attribute Profile. For example the FTMS service is one that is similar to ANT+ FE-C.

There are also many companies doing implementations over BLE GATT that are not standardized by the SIG. These custom services and characteristics are similar to ANT profiles on networks other than the ANT+ network, and manufacturer specific pages or fields in ANT+ profiles.      

The Bluetooth Heart Rate Profile describes a sensor that uses the Heart Rate Service and Device Information Service. This is similar to the ANT+ Heart Rate Profile.