BowlSense Learn

Confirm the Mount Before the Number

One BowlSense Pro puck can move between fitted balls. A practice number is comparable only after you select that ball and confirm the mounting still matches its calibration.

One BowlSense Pro puck covers the balls you fit for it. I wrote that up on October 13: one sensor for your whole bag. The puck moves. The calibration stays with the ball. The part that keeps a practice number honest is the check before the capture. The shop offer is the same one from that post. Pro is on the shop page, shipping in limited, hand built batches. The steps below are already in the app.

Before capture Select the ball. Confirm the mount. Then throw. The puck does not know which ball it is in, and it does not detect a remount. You make both checks. Read the installation guide Select the ball the puck is in Pair from inside BowlSense, not from the phone's Bluetooth list. In Settings, under Hardware, turn on "I have a BowlSense sensor.

" On the capture screen, tap Scan and wait until the sensor shows connected. The installation guide has the Android sequence, including the permission prompts. With the sensor connected, each ball in the picker shows one of two states: "Current calibration" or "Needs calibration." Start a capture on a ball that needs calibration and the app stops you. The alert is titled Calibration Required.

A ball with no calibration tells you to calibrate it before capturing. A ball whose layout changed after calibration tells you the layout changed and to recalibrate before capturing. Those stops keep a saved profile from being applied to a different shape. Answer the mount question When the selected ball has a current calibration, starting a capture can raise this alert: Puck moved or remounted?

The message names the ball. Use the saved calibration only if the puck is mounted the same way it was when that ball was calibrated. The buttons are Recalibrate and Use Current Mount. Use Current Mount only when that is true. If you moved the puck onto this ball, rotated it in the slug, or you are not sure, choose Recalibrate. The app will not catch a wrong answer.

There is no automatic remount detection, and that answer is not stored as part of the calibration. A different ball, or a new calibration, asks again. The same sentence sits under the ball picker: "Puck moved or remounted? Run quick calibration for" the ball you selected.

What quick calibration asks for For a thumb grip ball, quick calibration needs a saved layout with a thumb, a middle finger, a ring finger, and a pin. Enter those measurements with a flexible tape or your drill sheet. That path works on every supported phone. If this phone can scan, the same sheet offers Scan ball, which uses LiDAR to map the drilled holes and the pin. Both methods save the same ball layout.

The center of gravity mark is optional. The calibration screen then shows two steps: 1. Hold still. Set the ball on a flat surface and keep it completely still. That capture runs for 2 seconds. The screen shows a quality reading, and a noisy still can be retried before the roll. 2. Roll forward. Place your fingers in the holes and roll the ball straight forward on a flat surface. A slow, steady roll works best.

That capture runs for 3 seconds. If the roll stays too aligned with the thumb hole, the app reports Roll Not Detected and asks for a firmer roll with the thumb hole roughly vertical. The Pro puck is built to sit in the thumb slug. If the screen asks which hole the puck is in, pick the hole it is actually seated in. Calibrating with the wrong hole scrambles axis tilt, axis rotation, and PAP.

What the number is After a capture, the app estimates ball speed, rev rate, axis tilt, axis rotation, and release consistency. Those are practice estimates. The shop page states the same limit: motion estimates, not a validated accuracy claim. The puck does not read lane oil. It does not see where the ball is on the lane. It does not replace a fitter who knows your hand.