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Kinomap: Longstanding trainer app Kinomap has also added this in effective this past Thursday, primarily on the Android side where ANT+ connectivity is a bit cleaner/easier to achieve than on iOS. As with virtually all other electronically controlled trainers, Trainer Road supports calibration of the Tacx Smart units as well. their SufferFest videos), as well as ones without videos.
This includes both workouts with videos (i.e. With this release they’ll support the ability to control the Tacx trainer for any of the workouts they have.
Trainer Road is known primarily for their power-based workouts. At the same time, they’ll also release support for their desktop app control. They plan to roll out support later today (Tuesday).
#Trainerroad software update#
Trainer Road: Their update will allow both iOS and Desktop control of the Tacx Smart series trainers in the next few days. Not only did they release the firmware update today, but the three big apps in the trainer profile space have also announced near-immediate availability of support in their lineup. Thankfully, Tacx seems to have knocked out two birds with one stone. One of the challenges that I’ve complained about with the ANT+ Trainer Control support is that it not only lacked any trainers, but lacked any apps to support it. You only need it for the initial upgrade.
#Trainerroad software upgrade#
As I noted then – if you lack an iOS phone yourself, simply offer an iOS friend a beer in exchange for the few minutes to upgrade your trainer. If you look back to other companies that initially supported firmware updates wirelessly, such as Wahoo Fitness, it was similar with iOS first.
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Once upgraded, then 3rd party apps that support the ANT+ Trainer Profile can control it as they see fit.Īs for Android support, that’s coming shortly – Tacx is aiming for the end of June to have that complete. Tacx today released a new utility app called ‘Tacx Utility’, this app connects to your Smart series trainer and updates the trainer’s firmware. So how do you upgrade your trainer? Via a simple app. To summarize, the following trainers are not supported:Ī) Tacx Satori Smart (physically cable-controlled)ī) Tacx Genius series (older non-Smart unit, they haven’t released a ‘Genius Smart’ model)Į) Anything else that’s not in the section previous to this Similarly, for cheaper trainers such as their Tacx Satori Smart, that doesn’t support automated (computerized) control, since it has a cable control mechanism – so that’s not supported either. Why not other trainers? Well, Tacx has said that their other electronic trainers (such as their Genius and non-Smart series) don’t have enough channels on the older ANT+ chips within them to enable control. The trainers that support ANT+ FE-C (trainer control) are: And a further subset are labeled ‘Smart’ trainers, which means they have dual protocol support. Tacx has a number of trainers that support resistance control, but only some of them do so electronically. Similarly, if you’re doing interval workouts the trainer will automatically iterate through different wattages. For example, if you’re climbing a hill, the app will automatically change the resistance. This means that these trainers can have the resistance dynamically changed by apps as those apps see fit. Tacx has rolled out control within their Smart series of trainers that support resistance control. Still, it’ll be much appreciated by many given the lower prices of the Tacx trainers. This is in some ways one of the lesser kept secrets out there, with some news slipping out by a 3rd party back a number of months ago as to the planned support.
With the Tacx FE-C control though, that fully changes. That also meant that one couldn’t use any of the 20+ applications that supported more open control, like that of the Wahoo KICKR. Instead that required the Tacx suite of applications, albeit available on Android, iOS and PC. The challenge however, was that while the Tacx Smart trainers (Bushido, Vortex and Satori) broadcasts open ANT+/BLE, they didn’t allow for control of the trainer.
#Trainerroad software Bluetooth#
Similarly, any Bluetooth Smart device (such as those from Polar and Suunto) could conceivably pickup the broadcasts of power, speed, and cadence. This means that any ANT+ capable head unit (be it a Garmin device or a PowerTap Joule) can pickup the signals. The trainers are attractive in that they support dual ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart broadcasts. These trainers were introduced last fall at Eurobike 2014, and were made widely available shortly thereafter. This support (technically called FE-C, for Fitness Equipment – Controls), allows any 3rd party app to control certain Tacx trainers, as part of their Tacx ‘Smart’ series of trainers. Today Tacx announced and made available open ANT+ trainer profile support.
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