ANT+ on iPad?
bsharp77
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Its time to set up the turbo again....
I have a Bkool Pro, which runs over ANT+ only and have used no problem with a macbook running zwift & trainer road.
For ease of use, id like to move to an iPad, as the macbook is now used elsewhere and it would be a pain to keep relocating it for training.
As far as I can see, there is no way to use the wahoo ANT+ key with newer iOS devices (even with the convertor) as a lot of people are commenting that it doesn't work.
So I can't get ANT+ on an iPad Pro....I can't get bluetooth on the Bkool Pro.....will I just have to fork out for a dedicated Mac Mini or a cheap PC?!! .....surely someone can some up with a way to relay ANT+ over bluetooth, its a pain in the behind unless you have a bluetooth enabled trainer.
Ideally id like a wahoo kickr but no way funds or the better half will let me stretch to that!
Any thoughts or advice appreciated - I can't be the first one to have this problem (especially as zwift have just released their iOS app).
I have a Bkool Pro, which runs over ANT+ only and have used no problem with a macbook running zwift & trainer road.
For ease of use, id like to move to an iPad, as the macbook is now used elsewhere and it would be a pain to keep relocating it for training.
As far as I can see, there is no way to use the wahoo ANT+ key with newer iOS devices (even with the convertor) as a lot of people are commenting that it doesn't work.
So I can't get ANT+ on an iPad Pro....I can't get bluetooth on the Bkool Pro.....will I just have to fork out for a dedicated Mac Mini or a cheap PC?!! .....surely someone can some up with a way to relay ANT+ over bluetooth, its a pain in the behind unless you have a bluetooth enabled trainer.
Ideally id like a wahoo kickr but no way funds or the better half will let me stretch to that!
Any thoughts or advice appreciated - I can't be the first one to have this problem (especially as zwift have just released their iOS app).
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You might want to look into ant+ to Bluetooth bridges. Not tried one myself but am thinking of getting one if I get into the zwift iOS beta. 4iiii heart rate monitor does it, as does Wahoo's RFLKT+
With these you connect your ant+ devices to the bridge and they forward the ant data to iOS in Bluetooth
Zwift have tested with the hear rate monitor and state that works. I don't know if anyone had succeeded with the RFLKT, this would be my preferred solutions.0 -
Thanks for the response BranonA.
Trainer Road doesn't support either of those bridging devices (so I imagine the sufferfest app won't either).
Looks like a bit of a dead end at the minute, until someone comes up with a universal solution - think ill have to resort to a mac mini or cheap pc instead
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Are you use the Wahoo key won't work? I've used it with trainer road with the lightening adapter on my iPhone 6 and it worked fine?
Notably this won't work with the upcoming Zwift iOS version.
As I understand it the apps don't need to support the bridging devices as it's just converting it to bluetooth so it if supports BTLE devices it should work.0
