Bluetooth Smart Communicationīluetooth Smart communication has quite a few names including Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and Bluetooth 4.0. So for example if you have a coach who wants to monitor an athlete’s heart rate (using a Wahoo ANT+ heart rate monitor) while they are on an indoor trainer, both the athlete (using an ANT+ Wahoo Bolt) and coach (using an iPad with an ANT+ dongle) could receive the same heart rate data on different ANT+ devices. The beauty of ANT+ is once a connection is made from one ANT+ broadcasting device to another ANT+ receiving device, other ANT+ devices aren’t blocked from receiving the same broadcast. The purpose of ANT+ is to communicate wirelessly from one device to another device. ANT+ CommunicationĪNT+, which stands for interoperability, uses a 2.4 GHz ultra-low power wireless network to broadcast information.
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Zwift introduced their Zwift Companion App that solves the Bluetooth Apple TV 4K Connection issue. The end result is you will need some other way to connect more than 2 bluetooth devices to programs like Zwift. The downside, at least right now is the Apple TV 4K can only connect to 3 bluetooth devices, 1 being the Apple TV controller. With the introduction of the Apple TV 4K, many people when using programs like Zwift are ditching their computers and going for a more simplified setup using the Apple TV. These other devices will communicate using one or two different protocols including either Bluetooth Smart or ANT+ or both. Many cyclists will also want to monitor other aspects that require additional devices including power meters, cadence sensors and heart rate monitors. Usually when cycling, people will either have their phones or cycling computers monitor their activity. Indoor Trainer: Indoor trainers like the Wahoo KICKR and KICKR Core relay information from the trainer to programs like Zwift.Heart rate monitor: measures heart rate.Cyclometer: measures speed, distance, altitude… and connects to the other devices.Power meter: measures power output typically shown in watts.I never really ran into many problems with Bluetooth connections until the end of 2017 when I had multiple devices all connecting and talking to each other.Ī typical indoor bike setup might look like the following To give you a little insight into the Bluetooth Smart Vs ANT+ debate, I am going to use cycling as my example. This took me some time to figure it out as it wasn't obvious with any of the documentation.As one who tests a lot of products, I thought it would be a great time to discuss Bluetooth Smart Vs ANT+ and why you might want to choose one method of communication over the other. Garmin express will steal the ant+ device's focus and it will not be available to trainerroad. You'll find duplicate activities and you have to fart around with the garmin to turn the gps signal off.Īn additional tip is to make sure you close garmin express (completely exit the program) before using trainerroad. You could capture the signals in parallel with the 510, but I would advise against it. Once you end the activity in trainerroad, you can have the file uploaded to strava automatically or save it and upload it to garmin connect. If you are using trainerroad, you'll pair the sensor and it will calculate speed (and cadence & HR if you are using those sensors as well). You will need a speed sensor on the bike transmitting the ant+ signal from the bike. This will have nothing to do with the Garmin 510 (the 510 is a receiver, not transmitter of ant+ signals just as the ant+ stick in the computer will be a receiver).
The ant+ stick just needs to be a generic one.
So this is an old thread, but I would offer this since I use trainerroad.
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