Incyclist
Incyclist ships as an AppImage, for x86-64 and for ARM64. Download it from the download page, make the file executable and run it — there is no installer.
Bluetooth trainers, power meters and heart rate monitors are supported directly, and the app runs as a normal user. For ANT+ devices you need an ANT+ dongle.
The details differ between distributions. Fred van Gestel maintains a guide covering several Linux flavours — check here for more details.
Incyclist can ride any video that is paired with a GPX track, so you can turn your own footage into a route. In outline: record the ride as video and as a GPX track, smooth the GPX, convert the video, and describe the pairing in a small XML file that you then import.
Incyclist supports every video encoding that Chromium supports. H264 works everywhere; H265 and AV1 have limitations on some platforms, which matters if you intend to share your video with other riders rather than just ride it yourself.
Fred van Gestel has written a step-by-step walkthrough of the whole process — check here for more details. Importing existing RLV, EPM and Tacx files is covered in the Incyclist manual.
Incyclist rides real world videos (RLVs), and a number of riders and shops publish them. The sites below are run by other people, not by Incyclist — they are listed because riders find them useful, not as a recommendation or endorsement.
Riders also swap videos and routes in the Incyclist Strava club. If a link here is dead, or you publish videos yourself and would like to be listed, let me know.
In order to enable Incyclist to upload activities to Strava, you need to connect your Strava account with the app.
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Once that connection is established, whenever you save an activity, it will be automatically uploaded to Strava.
Microsoft has introduced a new system for verifying the authenticity of desktop applications called SmartScreen that may trigger warnings when you download and install Incyclist. It may report messages such as "This program is not commonly downloaded and could harm your computer." or "Windows protected your PC. Windows SmartScreen prevented an unrecognized app from starting. Running this app might put your PC at risk."
While this new system does insure that you are downloading an application that has not been tampered with, it also introduces errant warnings, especially with a newly released software applications and updates, such as Incyclist version releases.
Rest assured that the Incyclist application is signed and has a valid certificate (you can check it yourself by viewing the Properties of the installer application). I follow industry best practices in insuring the security of the software.
However, as mentioned earlier, due to the nature of how Windows is handling security, it is common for newly released applications to experience false warnings about security. Such is the case with the latest version of Incyclist, as I have added a new signing certificate. This warning will eventually go away as more folks download and install the software and the reputation increases over time.
Here are some detailed installation instructions to help you install:
When launching the Incyclist App 0.9.10 or later on Mac, the following popup appears:
The Incyclist App is basically just a re-packaged Chromium Browser and Chromium has introduced a feature called "Safe Storage", which allows Web Pages to store secrets in an encrypted local database. On Mac, the encryption keys are stored in the login Keychain. Therefore, the Incyclist App has to request access to the encryption key and you need to specifically allow this by clicking on Allow or Always Allow and enter your password (the same password you use for login). This password is not shared with Incyclist or any other app. It is just used by the Mac Keychain.
The Incyclist User Interface is then a Web Page that is launched in this Chromium browser. The User Interface currently does not make use of this Safe Storage, so whatever option (Always Allow, Deny, Allow) you select, will not make any difference to Incyclist. But unfortunately, I have not found an option to completely disable "Safe Storage" and prevent this popup to appear.
I would recommend to click on "Always Allow". Although any other option (even "Deny") would also work for Incyclist, the popup would show up upon every launch of the app unless you click on "Always Allow".