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Moxy is configured using a small PC application which is crude but functional. It allows you to set the date, check the battery level, upgrade the firmware, and most importantly, configure the recording and transmission of data. You can have Moxy pretend it is a heart rate monitor or a cadence monitor which allows it to work with virtually any Ant+ compatible watch. It will also work as a native SmO2 monitor for the devices that support it. You can also set how frequently the data is recorded and how much smoothing is applied, something I wish more devices would expose. The utility will also download the recorded data from the device as FIT files. The recording takes place whenever the Moxy is turned on; there's no separate start/stop function. (The technical readers will note the COM port interface, rather than native USB support.)<br/>[[File:MoxyConfig.png|none|thumb|200px|]]
=Real Time Data=
Unlike many other [[Running Sensors]], Moxy does not have its own dedicated smartphone app. Instead, it transmits its data over Ant+, which makes it available to a vast array of running watches. You can set up the Moxy to pretend it's either a heart rate monitor or a Footpod, so even relatively old Garmin watches can display and record the data. With the newer Garmin watches that support [[Connect IQ ]] you can display and record SmO2 data natively. The high-end Garmin watches from 2016 on will even support SmO2 without the need for a Connect IQ data field. (This includes the [[Garmin Fenix 5X]], 630, & 735XT.) I much prefer this approach over the dedicated smartphone app that locks you in to a limited set of functions, and requires you to carry a heavy phone. If you are using Moxy on a treadmill you can connect it to rather more sophisticated software for real-time analysis. I used Golden Cheetah with an Ant+ USB stick quite successfully. Seeing the data on a laptop screen is far easier to read while you're running, and gives something to distract you from the suffering of an incremental stress test.
[[File:BSX Moxy Test.JPG|none|thumb|x300px|Here's my setup for testing the Moxy (and BSX). If you look carefully you'll see a laptop in the bottom right corner that is analyzing the data from the Moxy.]]
=Post Run Analysis=