Has anyone had issues with coffee break not lasting the full three minutes.
It’s hit and miss and hard to duplicate. I’ve already been in contact with Zwift support.
A couple weeks ago, while riding with a pace partner, I started a coffee break and it seem to work fine, when I return, I was sitting on the side of the road alone.
I’ve reinstalled the app and done everything they have asked.
It seemed to work fine for the past week and then yesterday while on a group ride, it left me on the side of the road once again.
I actually stood there and watched it for about 30 seconds to make sure it was holding the 21 mph that our group was doing before I walked away.
Only two times this is ever happened, just wondering if I’m the only one. I’ve used coffee break five or six times in the past week and it seems to work fine and then suddenly doesn’t.
Shuji at Zwift HQ here. Thanks for this report. You strike me as someone who uses Coffee Stop regularly and know how it should / should not work, so I believe you that something’s not right.
If anyone reading along is also seeing this, please weigh in so we can raise visibility on possible common threads.
On which OS platform are you running Zwift?
Which version of the Zwift game app?
Is the “short” Coffee Stop the first one you used during that ride?
Using the latest Zwift app. I think this is what caused it all.
I don’t know what short coffee stop means
I was on the dirt group family values, Tuesday ride and at 30 minutes. I took a three minute coffee break.
When I walked away, it was holding 20 to 21 mph when I got back, I’m sitting on the side of the road alone.
First time this happened I was on one of the D group bot rides. About a week ago. The next couple of times I use the coffee stop it worked fine., Then yesterday again left on the side of the road.
What I have experienced, is who the coffee break attaches to gets lost. I suspect some are irradiated to have someone tag along, so they mess with their speed to drop you. Then, I’ve experienced weirdness when picking up someone else- jumping to speeds as much as 60 km/h, etc.
We’re in the middle of a phased game update this week. We always prefer to have a version number for triaging a root cause because “latest” isn’t reliable. You can look up what version is installed in the game’s setting menu under the About tab.
Sounds like someone else was finishing their ride, came to a stop, and you were lucky enough to get glued to them.
Coffee stop has functioned this way since release.
While I don’t know if program wise it’s possible, they should tie on to the nearest beacon.
But in this particular case, and most cases; it’s that you got stuck to someone leaving the ride.
Not trying to be a jerk, but why do you need to use the coffee break so much? I’ve rarely used it myself. Maybe use the toilet before you start your ride? Just saying, if it isn’t working well for you, prepare yourself to be on the trainer for an hour or whatever and hopefully you won’t need it.
I think you may be onto something. When I finish my ride today, I intentionally started a coffee break just to see how it would react and I went from 22 miles an hour to 14 miles an hour back to 19 miles an hour with three different people. It seems to be latching on and jumping from rider to rider.
Of course, not everybody that uses a coffee break is going to the toilet.
Sometimes we’re on group rides with friends or with one of the bot rides and someone knocks at the door, or your spouse needs something. And it’s nice to be able to take the break go check on something and come right back. The way it’s designed is to hold you where you were. if I just wanted to stop and roll to the side of the road, what’s the point in the coffee break. Idk
I use it often if I need to jump off the bike to check on something. It’s become quite valuable if you’re trying to put time in on the trainer. But if it’s not dependable, then it’s useless. Up until now it has been very dependable.
After reading this thread I decided to test the coffee break today. It showed up as available after 33 minutes of riding.
I was riding solo, not around anyone, when coffee break activated it worked for less than 60 seconds and left me on the side of the road at 0 watts and 0 mph.
First pic is when I activated it.
Second pic is shortly after.
