# Not going to pay, no iPad pairing for bkool smart pro and no answers

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**Category:** Archived: Zwift Feedback\
**Created:** [January 7, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/not-going-to-pay-no-ipad-pairing-for-bkool-smart-pro-and-no-answers/363 "2017-01-07T00:07:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Phil\_Eldredge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@Phil\_Eldredge](https://forums.zwift.com/u/Phil_Eldredge)\
**Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/not-going-to-pay-no-ipad-pairing-for-bkool-smart-pro-and-no-answers/363/1 "2017-01-07T00:07:01Z")

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, I’ve just got this trainer and am trying to pair using my iPad and BLE. Why do I have to pair as a power device and not a controllable device? Once I start riding, the power, speed and then controllable all pair up. Strange behaviour, but am unsure if it changes the resistance properly.

I am trialling zwift and will probably not pay for it. The trainer works fine with the bkool software…

Also I raised a ticket to support and they just haven’t responded

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**Author:** ![\_david\_aka\_setuid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/gozwift/user_avatar/forums.zwift.com/_david_aka_setuid/32/8974_2.png) [@\_david\_aka\_setuid](https://forums.zwift.com/u/_david_aka_setuid)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2017, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.zwift.com/t/not-going-to-pay-no-ipad-pairing-for-bkool-smart-pro-and-no-answers/363/2 "2017-01-14T14:59:36Z")

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Your BKOOL trainer is an ANT+ trainer, and Zwift on iOS is (currently) built to support BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), not ANT+. They are two different, incompatible protocols.

Zwift is adding back ANT+ support into the iOS version of Zwift (ZiOS), but it’s not in any released version as yet.

Your options are to either get a ‘bridge’ device, to convert the ANT+ data coming from your trainer into BLE data that ZiOS can consume, or wait until the version of ZiOS with ANT+ support has been released.

Here’s a KB article that can help:

### [How do I connect my ANT+ to Zwift on iPhone/iPad](http://kb.zwiftriders.com/connect-ant-to-zios)