After I got a new bike (that has bluetooth powermeter), I decided to try TrainerDay again. I purchased the Premium and attempted to do a workout.
First all my previous slope based workouts lost the slope mode (they were just regular ERG). Is this what happens when you cancel Premium, that all your workouts revert to simple ERG? I had to recreate a workout with slope to test.
Second, I added the workout to my calendar but when I open the TrainerDay app, it is nowhere to find?! I don’t know if the app changed recently, but it is impossible (for me) to find today’s workout. My only way to get it to work was to add the workout to my Favorites and then in the app go to Workouts, filter Favorites and there it was (had to scroll through them to find it). Is this the way? I would bet, it was easier than that half a year ago, wasn’t it?
Today shows some random workouts (instead of workouts from my calendar):
Third, I created a slope based workout I don’t think the slope worked. Here it is:
But when I did the workout, nothing really happened when the slope went to +2%. Eventually, I had to switch to ERG otherwise it would be easy (0% slope for the whole workout):
But also you should click on plan to see your plan, and pull down on the list to refresh.
Yes, Today should show from from plan but TODAY is a new feature and right now it is not showing from your plan. This is something we will be improving soon.
I hope that helps, we will test auto-slope mode today and make sure there is no bug there. If there is we will get that fixed ASAP.
Sorry I mean to respond to to this. I recorded a video but going in and out of slope and ERG works fine for me. Maybe because you started with 0% that caused a problem. I did no test that. Maybe 0.1% would work.
Oh I see, so it’s slope mode that is not working on your trainer. What trainer do you have? Once my developer gets through some current stuff (in a week or so) we could do a test session with your trainer. Maybe email me at support@trainerday.com to continue this if you want. I should research your trainer anyway before we work with him.
I gave it some time and after over a year I wanted to retest the slope workouts. I created a simple slope based workout: 5mins 0, 5mins 1, 5mins 1.5, 5mins 2, 5mins 0.
When I execute the workout in TrainerDay on my Wahoo Rollr, the slope surprisingly starts at -0.2 (instead of 0.1). The slope increases (in the app) but I don’t feel any resistance and no change between intervals:
After this unsuccessful exercise, I closed TrainerDay and opened Wahoo app and did similar workout using Wahoo app directly (the same devices connected). This time 1min 0, 1min 1, 1min 1.5, 1min 2, 1min 0. Every time I changed the slope I felt the resistance change within 10 seconds and the effort (W) went from 120W to over 200W. This clearly works as expected.
Were you able to investigate the issue? Is there a chance to have this fixed?
Hi David, it looks like you have the down button pressed (see offset) that is why it does not match your workout slopes.
Previously I contacted Wahoo and they tried it and said it worked with their roller but was slow. I would have to re-read their email. One other user with a different issue pointed something out which we are working on could fix this or you could work with my developer directly.
Sounds good. The offset is possible (since I did that in a previous workout - i wouldn’t expect such a setting would carry between independent workouts but that’s fine).
The slope change might be slower but the fact that with Wahoo app it did work fine (I guess the 10-15s to change is what they might be talking about) but with TrainerDay it didn’t work at all!
Yes, please put me in contact with somebody and I will share more information (if needed).
