Backfire Board Tracker

I recently got a Backfire Zealot S electric skateboard. I was not satisfied with any of the electric skateboard tracking apps out there. I built my own. It supports iOS, watchOS, and macOS.

Features

• Track your current ride on your phone, tablet, or watch.
• See your current speed, distance, and battery life on your phone, tablet, or watch.
• View your previous rides on your phone or tablet.
• Grabs and saves the weather of your ride.
• Watch users track rides as workouts (you don’t burn a lot of calories, but it’s balance work, right? 🤷)

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Privacy Policy

While this app uses your location and bluetooth, no data collected is available to the developers of the app. All data is stored in a secure cloud container on Apple Servers that only you have access to.

Screenshots

Apple Watch

iPhone Rides

iPhone Ride Summary

Some data missing is missing from this screenshot as it was done in the simulator. Data should work on your device.

iPhone Current Ride

macOS Ride Summary

I’ve blurred the map out for privacy reasons. It is not really blurry, I promise!

FAQ

Is this an official Backfire Board application?

It is not. This is a hobby app and is in no way connected to or associated with Backfire Boards. I needed to reverse engineer the bluetooth data as the spec is not provided by Backfire or Hobbywing.

Will the battery tracking work with my board?

Maybe? I have only tested it on the Backfire Zealot S. If your board is a Backfire board and has BLE then it might work.

Will this work on Android?

No.

Will this ever support Android?

Almost certainly not, it’s built using Apple technologies like CloudKit. If you are feeling ambitious, I’m more than happy to have contributors!

Is there a macOS version?

I don’t recommend riding your electric skateboard while holding a Mac, but yes. The macOS app only shows ride summaries.

Support or Contact

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