I have a Sportstech ESX500 and was told it wasn’t supported by Zwift due to it having a non standard wheel size. I’m guessing this isn’t the only exercise bike to not be supported, so I was wondering how difficult it would be for Zwift to add support for this? Surely it’s just a matter of adding a calculation based on the wheel size of the bike? I’m sure a database of exercise bikes with non standard wheel sizes could be collated in a short period of time. I’d love to see my bike work with Zwift, it works perfectly well with my current app Kinomap.
The problem is not the wheel size. It is that there is no power curve for the spin bike an no way for Zwift to know at what resistance you have it set at.
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Okay, the Zwift customer service said it was wheel size. How does Kinomap get this information then? It outputs cadence, power, heart rate, and automatically adjusts the resistance.
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That’s the bike I have, Kinomap isn’t built in. It just connects via Bluetooth. It’s a standard lcd screen console and connects to a phone/tablet/tv to use Kinomap.
There’s a few other apps it works with as well, but not Zwift.
I did not know it has bluetooth.
If it send power data over the standard Bluetooth protocol then you should be able to connect to it as a power source.
But I guess they use their own protocol.