[SOLVED] - Trainerday not connecting to wahoo kickr (with interesting solution)

[Veloceroo1]

I’ve seen this on here a number of times. But it’s still obviously some kind of issue, since I can no longer get TrainerDay to connect to the Wahoo kickr. I do all the power cycling, I reboot everything I shutdown apps, etc. No matter what I do, no matter which device I’m trying it on, it won’t recognise power or cadence. I’m trying it on an iPhone pro 15 max, on an iPad Pro, and a MacBook Pro. None of these work with the trainer app connecting to the kickr. The Wahoo app works fine, and can control the kickr. Seems like it’s a recurring problem.

[Veloceroo1]

Actually, after much reading and hearing about many issues with Wahoo Kickr across different training apps, I was on the verge of chucking out my Kickr. Randomly, I wondered if another setting might help either force the Bluetooth to connect or something.

I went to the Wahoo app (the black one just called “Wahoo”), selected devices, then wahoo kickr, then turned off “erg mode power smoothing.” It immediately worked. I have zero technical knowledge about this but from what I have read there’s a potential for some kind of Bluetooth thing to get stuck. So I’ll just guess that this forced some kind of activity in the Bluetooth board, that released it, rather than being a specific issue with the power smoothing function

There’s an old, unhelpful Video on YouTube about a factory reset. It seems useless, it’s also 6yrs old.

Wahoo itself provides almost no help you can’t workout yourself (power everything down and reboot . . . genius!).

Still, worth noting that Wahoo seems to suffer from poor manufacturing, and this was a theme on other apps, specifically unrepairable electronic dysfunction. I know for me, after about 4 or 5 of the hr monitors breaking, it finally clicked, so I switched to a polar h10, which just wont die. And then I had 2 Roam head units that had to be replaced. On my third, and it still loses gps signal all the time (and I’m in a major city with good signals everywhere), but can’t be bothered going back to wahoo and dealing with it. I do love the idea of Wahoo, especially the way the gps Head units work, but I’m just not a millionaire and can’t afford constant replacements.

[Alex]

Oh my… Can you share which kickr you have. This is very interesting info. Kickr is mostly a good trainer but all trainers can have issues.