Connectivity issues ANT+/WiFi

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If I first connect Power with ANT+ to my Favero Assioma pedals, then when searching in Resistance, my JetBlack Victory does not show for WiFi, only ANT+.

My setup is:
Macbook with ANT+ dongle
Favero Assioma pedals
JetBlack Victory
Garmin HRM
Zwift Click

I use the pedals for power and cadence
Victory for resistance
and obviously HRM for HR.

If I do everything with ANT+ and Zwift Click with bluetooth, I get no virtual shifting.

So I have to first connect Power with WiFi to the Victory, then I can connect Resistance with WiFi to Victory, then change Power to the Pedals with ANT+.

This feels like a workaround, is this a bug?
Why if I connect the pedals with ANT+, is the Victory not available for WiFi?

Hope this isn’t too confusing, I can reproduce this bug.

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Hello @Christop.ch welcome to Zwift forums.
Shuji at Zwift HQ here. It’s not a bug. The simplest solution is to unplug your ANT+ dongle from your Macbook. Having ANT capability is only going to cause you complications and problems, not solutions.

That is expected. Virtual Shifting only works as part of the Bluetooth protocol.
WiFi Direct Connect also co-exists with Bluetooth, so Virtual Shifting is supported over Direct Connect as well.

If you prefer to use your pedals as the power data source things are more complex than if you use a trainer. Pair your devices in this sequence.

  1. Power: Pair your trainer’s Bluetooth signal or Direct Connect. Either one will work.
  2. Resistance: Expect a ~10 second delay before the Victory broadcasts its Resistance signal. This lag is normal and expected over Bluetooth.
  3. Controllers: Pair your Click. They will not pair unless the trainer is bonded as the Resistance source over BLE or DC.

Then and only then:
4. Power. Disconnect the Victory’s power signal and pair the Assioma as power source.
5. Cadence: pair to the Assiomas
6. Heart rate monitor: Assuming your Garmin isn’t a really old model that broadcasts ANT-only, pair the HRM over Bluetooth.

Give that a try please, and let us know if everything pairs correctly and virtual shifting works? FYI - you can pull this off with the ANT dongle in place, but you have to be extra-careful that you choose the Bluetooth signal instead of ANT. But to make this less prone to mistakes, it’s simpler to unplug the dongle.

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Hi @shooj , thanks so much for the detailed response! I will try this out tomorrow.
Won’t the Assiomas only transmit true L/R power balance if they are connected with ANT+?
I used ANT+ so that I could also connect them to my Garmin Edge 540 to get this data in the meantime.

When will this be available in Zwift?

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This is exactly what I do (with P2M power meter) - BLE connection with Zwift, ANT+ with Garmin. No issues.

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@Christop.ch
Yes, continue to pair the pedals to your Edge 540 via ANT+. Same as you would do outdoors.

Removing the ANT dongle from your Macbook does not have any effect on the pedal <> Edge 540 connection. It just removes an unnecessary complication for pairing all your devices correctly to Zwift.