Hey all,
2015 Macbook running Big Sur
Kinetic Road Machine (Dumb)
Cable (ant+ to BLE)
Inride sensor
Garmin Cadence, Speed, HRM Sensors
I guess I’ve got two problems. I had two different setups running Zwift, neither of which are working, and would be willing to settle for resolution for at least one of them. The first setup, worked in Spring ’19, and it was just Garmin cadence and speed sensors run through a Cable BLE sensor. I ran 12 weeks of “Build Me Up” with only a few hiccups - due to network dropouts interrupting the fit file log - not the sensors as far as I can figure. I stopped running Zwift in spring ’20 because it got buggy, and it drove me completely insane. It was possibly due to an Inride sensor which I recently purchased, which was my “second” setup. I wanted more realistic power readings.
Anyhow, I started Zwifting again last week. It started with no bluetooth connectivity, Big Sur apparently left multiple permissions available for Zwift minus BLE. I got the sensors connected, but Inride was running with a 7-10 second lag. I removed the battery from the Inride sensor and am only using the cadence and speed (and hr) sensors.
Now I’ve got a 2-3 second lag. And every 30 seconds, I lose connectivity for about 4 seconds. It goes…wattage will drop (approximately) by 30w, then drop another 30w, then shoot up to a number about 200w above my actual wattage, then 100w above my actual wattage, then my actual wattage. So if I’m riding it’d look something like 115w>75w>35w>330w>230w> 115w. I can’t complete workout checkpoints. Seems like I have a lag if doing a sprint too. Below is everything I’ve done so far to remedy the issue.
- Updated Zwift.
- Restarted Zwift.
- Erased two files from Zwift, and reset the bluetooth module following the “Resolving Mac BLE pairing Issues After An Update”, where the second file actually requires a tilde in order to access it (~/Library/Preferences/ByHost)
- Delete/Reinstall Zwift.
- Reset PRAM.
- Full shut down of Macbook.
- Multimetered and changed the Inride, cadence, speed, hrm, and Cable sensor’s batteries.
- Garmin Fenix 3 HR connects to all sensors.
- Erased speed and cadence sensors from the Cable (ant+ to ble) sensor, then reconnected to the Macbook.
- *Found correct(ish?), and IMMEDIATE readings of speed, no lag, for cadence and speed on CABLE and Kinetic apps via iphone 6s.
- Did a spin down on the Kinetic App for the Inride sensor, could not spin down on Zwift.
- I did the Zwift “BLE Pairing Issues” thing again.
- Zwiftalizer didn’t look like it listed BLE problems specifically, so I guess it looked good?
All this has been several hours across multiple days of reading and doing other stuff that isn’t riding. Within minutes of writing all this up, I tried Zwift for the first time on the iphone app, with the same 30 second interruption. Is this a CABLE issue, anybody? I posted this on their board 3 days ago. If anybody can help out that’d be great! And thanks.