ZWIFT on a mac

bianchimoon

Interested in using Swift this winter for the really bad weather days and read the following

Finally you will probably need an ANT+ dongle, which is a small USB stick that you can plug in to your computer to allow it to communicate with your ANT+ speed sensor, power meter or smart turbo trainer. The only reason you won’t need this is if you are a Mac user with a Bluetooth sensor, in which case your computer will be able to communicate with the sensor without the need for a dongle,

Question is has anyone here used swift on a mac without the bluetooth dongle, by using the bluetooth set up to a garmin speed /cadence sensor?

markhewitt1978

Garmin speed / cadence sensors are ANT+ only so they won't work to bluetooth on a Mac; you'd need to get the ANT+ dongle or BT sensors.

bianchimoon

markhewitt1978 wrote:

Garmin speed / cadence sensors are ANT+ only so they won't work to bluetooth on a Mac; you'd need to get the ANT+ dongle or BT sensors.

That's what I thought, but the article in cycling weekly says otherwise, having thought more about it it probably needs the newer garmins with bluetooth rather than my old 800?

markhewitt1978

bianchimoon wrote:

markhewitt1978 wrote:

Garmin speed / cadence sensors are ANT+ only so they won't work to bluetooth on a Mac; you'd need to get the ANT+ dongle or BT sensors.

That's what I thought, but the article in cycling weekly says otherwise, having thought more about it it probably needs the newer garmins with bluetooth rather than my old 800?

The Garmin head unit itself may have bluetooth but that's useless in a Zwift setting, it doesn't serve any purpose. The sensors themselves are definitely ANT+ only.

sloppyschleckonds

I think this nonsense has its own forum now

TIA

bianchimoon

SloppySchleckonds wrote:

I think this nonsense has its own forum now

TIA

ahh so it has, well spotted and thanks for pointing out so nicely