So my gym has a couple of wattbike pros, I’ve got the wattbike hub app on my phone linked to Strava, so I connect my phone to the bike with bluetooth to follow the workout and then have it uploaded. But can you link them to the Garmin watch as well on the indoor bike setting? Would it find whichever bike I’m on under ‘add sensor’?
Or is it one of those you would need to download the workout data then upload it within Garmin Connect?
I always used to record my watt bike sessions to my watch. I ran the sessions on trainerroad too as my old Samsung phone had ant+ built in.
The hardest part in a gym of watt bikes is making sure you’re connected to the right bike. From memory, somewhere on the screen in the top or bottom corner it says what the ant+ connection id is, so you can try and validate you’re connected to the correct one. I always used to try and use the same bike, and so only had to have one saved in my sensor pool.
I think you do need to go into the bike settings and make sure ant+ broadcasting is turned on too.
Most Wattbikes should transmit ANT+ as well so you can pair it that way. Only issue as Stenard says is if there’s several other bikes in use you’ll need to get the right one.
But you should be able to see the power on both for comparison.
Can you? Oh, cool. My 910 could do that but I didn’t think anything from the 920 onwards could do so? I remember still leaving my 910 at work when I upgraded for the odd occasion I did a row at the work gym.
I thought they killed off the “ant fitness equipment” protocol? Or is it something different that replaced it?
PM5 on C2 Bikes at least connect via ANT+ I don’t know much more than that. You can also use Zwift with a C2 bike as well. Obviously no resistance change happening.
My Garmin saga goes on. It’s actually a forerunner 55, not a 30. Out of warranty. Was going to pick up a new one, decided to give it one last try after a long soak in warm water. Now it sort of works, in that it accurately records pace and location again - although still can’t use the lap button and has had a couple of random shutdowns
The 55 is just a running watch really. Am now torn between getting another 55 at £100, a 255 at £200ish for the swim/ Tri functions, or a cheap Chinese brand for £25 & see if it works. At the end of the day all I really want to know is run pace time and distance. don’t really care about other stuff.
This is a real numpty question. How do you only send specific activities to Strava from Garmin connect? I can see how to stop updating to strava completely but then as soon as I turn that back on it updates all the activities. I don’t want to put EVERYTHING on strava but I still want to track everything on my garmin.
You can choose everything to be in private mode on Strava originally, then manually make public just the smashfests you want to intimidate your competition with?
Might not be perfect solution… But I use this for a few auto rules. One of them allows you to mute an activity…
So depending how easy they are to filter… Without knowing your criteria what you do/don’t want to upload.
