Bolt and power meter issue upon pairing new sensor

burnthesheep

I've looked up some threads on this, and this one is a new one. I need to describe what specifically happened.

I have the Bolt paired to a Stages gen 2 power meter, a Garmin wheel speed sensor, and a Garmin heart rate monitor. I use this setup on the fluid trainer.

I finished with my bike on the trainer. I put my wife's bike on the trainer. I then added a Garmin cadence sensor pairing to the Bolt.

The Stages power meter was within signal range of the Bolt at this time.

The new Garmin cadence sensor paired and worked on the other bike, the bike without the power meter.

When I put the Bolt back on the original bike with the power meter, the power meter would no longer read cadence or power.

I tried to unpair the Garmin cadence sensor, but when it unpaired the Bolt asked "delete fields on pages". I said "No" because I still wanted cadence for the power meter.

I feel this messed up the cadence pairing between the Bolt and Stages power meter somehow.

After this I repeatedly unpaired the power meter and successfully paired it again. I zero-calibrated the meter. But, each time the cadence for the meter would be "N/A" and the 3 second power would not fluctuate or give a reading other than zero (no cadence).

I've also power-cycled the Bolt.

The ONLY thing I haven't done is a factory reset of the Bolt. I didn't want to lose my workouts there. If the workouts are on the iphone App, will they stay if I factory reset the Bolt to try to fix this?

Do you have a suggestion? There's a weird combination of things here with that new cadence sensor that messed something up.

redvision

I had some strange connection issues between sensors and the bolt a while back and a hard reset sorted it all.

if you are certain that the stages is not at fault i would try a hard reset. Only takes a couple of mins and will likely resolve the issue.

burnthesheep

Thanks. I'll go ahead and do it. A mild inconvenience. I guess the support email was worth it though just in case they want to know about that in case others run into it and they fancy knowing about it.

I feel it MUST be this odd pairing issue since it is literally a back to back interaction, indoors. No time in between. No damage. Really new batteries in all the sensors. Etc...

burnthesheep

Bolt system reset worked. Meter added and cadence/power working again. I added back the speed sensor for trainer usage and the HRM and all seemed to work in harmony again.

All is right with the world again so I can log some more indoor suffering.

I can't fault Wahoo at all on that one. I wouldn't expect someone goofing around with having multiple cadence signals to not confuse the unit somehow and have extra code in the software to figure that situation out.

My bad.

redvision

Glad you have sorted it

sloppyschleckonds

Thrilling stuff, well done