#Trainerroad ftp test how to
#Trainerroad ftp test Pc
#Trainerroad ftp test Bluetooth
#Trainerroad ftp test tv

Bit of a rubbish vid but it’s my first one. This will save me having to plug the laptop in each time.

#Trainerroad ftp test tv

I may swap out the laptop for an Apple TV at some point. The solution at this point consists of my laptop running Zwift (or whatever entertainment solution I settle on), my phone runs the Zwift Companion app and the Samsung tablet runs TrainerRoad and controls the turbo. The solution I am currently running is to have Zwift running exclusively on my laptop and I have a separate Samsung tablet running TrainerRoad. Especially if you have a lot of other rides around you. I use a laptop with 20G of RAM and still, the Zwift graphics can get jumpy.

#Trainerroad ftp test Pc

The only problem is you would need a pretty beefy PC to be able to run both. I’ve tried one of these and this seems to work as well. The other possible solution is to use an NPE CABLE.

#Trainerroad ftp test Bluetooth

The solution above does work and if you had appropriate devices that support Bluetooth as well as Ant+ then you could do away with the 2nd dongle and use Ant for one app and Bluetooth for the other. This way it’s being controlled by trainerRoad in Erg mode and the Zwift speed just alters depending on the power you are putting out. It’s an easy thing to fix however, you simply unpair the trainer from the Zwift app. Trust me this is very weird and confusing. The problem here is you just end up in a confusing mess as TrainerRoad is altering the resistance to match the workout and Zwift is altering to match the terrain you are on. The one thing you have to be careful of is who is controlling the Trainer? Technically both apps can be sending commands to the trainer to alter the difficulty. Chad’s helpful narrative appears as an overlay on the Zwift screen. You then have the TrainerRoad info at the bottom with Zwift as your entertainment. It then runs as a thin-ish strip at the bottom of your screen and you simply make the Zwift window fill the rest of the screen. You simply start both apps, you can run TrainerRoad in minimised mode. So my Assioma power pedals are sending data to both apps as is my HR rate monitor. You never know which dongle has been grabbed by which app but you really don’t care. You can then start Zwift and it grabs one dongle and TrainerRoad grabs the other. I was doubtful that this would work but it actually works well. You can actually get around this by simply plugging a separate Ant+ dongle into your laptop. So as an example if I am running Zwift on my PC then Zwift “owns” the dongle that is plugged into the USB port of the PC. The main problem is that whilst Ant+ will transmit to multiple devices, the app you are running seems to own the Ant interface on the device. But, as previously mentioned this will probably ruin the narrative you get in TrainerRoad and these are really neat and you would (Well, I would) NOT want to miss them. TrainingPeaks workouts just appear in Zwift. This is not nearly and easily done as it is with TrainingPeaks. I might try Fulgaz and others later on or maybe next year. I have decided that Zwift will be my first experiment with the accompanying entertainment. I’m not really a music guy, although I do listen to music whilst out on the road. Music would be OK but the others would be difficult to concentrate on while reading Chad’s Narrative. Obvious choices are music, YouTube Clips, Netflix etc.

#Trainerroad ftp test how to

So how to combine TrainerRoad with some entertainment. But, back to the point I made in my previous post, I do find watching the little blue graphs a bit soul destroying. I will be able to pull in my outside rides (when I do some), make comparisons and do ride analysis. I find using TrainerRoad a LOT more usable now that I have a power meter. So much so that since starting on TrainerRoad I have done nothing but indoor rides. I’ve now been using TrainerRoad for a just over 3 weeks.