Since I received such meaningful responses to my earlier questions, I’m hoping that will again be the case…
I have no problem pairing my 3G Cardio FTMS bike to the TD app and, as soon as the pairing occurs, the bike’s display and manual controls are disabled, as expected. This is perfectly appropriate if I’m using a TD workout, but causes a problem if my intent is to do one of the bike’s structured rides and then upload the data to TD (which is supposed to be possible).
The problem is that, as soon as the app pairs with the bike, the TD setting button for “CONTROLLABLE” has already been enabled. It’s been indicated to me that the TD app needs to see the bike as NOT controllable. The apparent issue is that if I then push the button to disable “CONTROLLABLE” the app does NOT release control of the bike. I think that this button’s function is incorrectly acting as a “STICKY”, as I need to log out of TD and swipe it from active apps on my tablet to regain the bike’s display and controls.
Can anyone provide a workaround so that I will be able to access 3G Cardio structured workouts which can then be uploaded to TD?
The easiest solution if you want your workouts in TD but do the apps else where is if that other app supports strava, connect to it and also connect TD to strava.
Thanks, Alex. I have established a Strava account, but was struck by how paltry the metrics appeared there after uploading a TD workout (including no HR data, despite having given permission). I was hoping that uploading the bike’s data to TD would provide far better metrics (and graphing?) of my workout, similar to how data is displayed for workouts which had been performed in TD. I had thought that one of the major strengths of FTMS was the active bi-directionality of data transmission.
Is it possible to ask the app’s designer whether or not that button is meant to be a sticky? If so (and it is turned on at pairing), why have that button at all if it can’t be disabled with FTMS devices?
Thousands of people send all metrics to strava so something strange is going on and yes you can turn off the controllable but I have no idea how your bike works. FTMS has nothing to do with bidirectional. Its just a standardized protocol, pretty much all protocols are bidirectional.
I just noticed that, regarding my bike, when the button’s background is green it indicates controllable and recognizes the bike as a “smart trainer”, but when the button’s background is black it still reads controllable, but sees the bike as “cycling power”. So what I was missing is that the TD app never truly allows the bike to be other than controlled. Sorry to involved y’all for apparently no good reason!
I just looked at intervals.icu for the first time. It may be that I need a “recorder” paired to my bike that will create a .FIT file (Wahoo?). It appears that that file could subsequently be linked to my Strava account and then finally to intervals.icu. Does that sound correct???
No if you see your hr in our app and save the workout it should have hr in it and go to strava and to intervals, I cant imaging any reason it would not. You can export fit file from our app and the site and upload to strava just out of curiosity… on our website you should see your hr data assuming you see it in our app.
You are correct, sir. I hadn’t taken notice of the “show more” button on Strava. It did, indeed, provide HR, Cadence and Power (Avg & Max). That’s now filed away. Unless I’m again missing something, Strava’s metrics are not nearly as elegant as TD or Intervals (which apparently did successfully link my TD workout) graphing.
FWIW, I guess any data from my 3G Cardio rides will be dust in the wind for the time being.
Could someone please tell me what the two values flanking Cadence/Pace in the display represent during the TD workout?
Nope, pressing “Controllable” doesn’t release the 3G Cardio. The display and controls remain locked to the TD app until the app is swiped closed. Are you able to maintain connection between the app and your bike after turning the “CONTROLLABLE” background from GREEN (Controllable: “Smart Trainer”) to BLACK (Controllable: “Cycling Power”), but regain control of your bike’s functions? I can’t make that happen and I don’t see any other setting for “CONTROLLABLE”. Thanks, anyway, for trying to help me out here, Alex
Yes this is likely a function of your bike. Two connections to same device likely won’t work unless you bike has ant+ but even then it can be complicated and it appears your bike just does not support a bluetooth device connected while it does the control
I have decided to try to use QZ (in PAUSE mode with MAGNET disabled) as a data stream provider from my 3G Cardio’s rides to TrainerDay (as per both Google Gemini and Microsoft Co-Pilot) which will be running as a FREE ride (to be created by me). My understanding is that Trainerday will “see” QZ as NOT being controllable, so the data stream should be “one way” from my bike.