Hello there!
I’m trying to find an exercise bike for 500 or under to get started with Zwift and I ran across and Echelon Connect EX-4S still in the box on CL for my price point and did some searching. I found a couple threads concerning this model and connecting it to the app via the qdomyos-zwift phone app and see quite a few notices that it’s not affiliated or endorsed by Zwift. My brother also told me that sometimes, a Zwift update will break the way users are connecting with methods like these, causing them to have a device that no longer talks with Zwift.
I worry that I’ll buy what I think is a great deal in getting started with Zwift and end up not being able to use it at some point because of an update breaking support and the addon author no longer updating the connection method to work again.
I just don’t understand how this process works enough to gauge that risk. Could someone explain to me what the risks would be connecting an exercise bike via this method as well as any other detractions?
Thanks for your time!