I am new to Zwift and my smart trainer in general. I have a Kinetic Road Machine/Smart trainer and I am trying to pair the trainer to my laptop for use with Zwift. My laptop can see the trainer in blue tooth but Zwift can not. I bought an ANT+ dongle and extension cable and tried that but the trainer is still not discover able by Zwift. The only way I can get it to work is through bridge app on my iPhone. I would rather connect it directly to the laptop and eliminate the bridge. Any ideas?
Trouble linking trainer to Zwift on PC
Bastiaan_Gaillard
(Bastiaan Gaillard [HIK - C])
#2
Hi Bill,
You trainer is supported according to this post:
As I read over here, Zwift recommends using the Mobile app:
Interesting read here from DC Rainmaker:
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2016/09/kinetic-smart-control-trainers.html
Good luck.
Jason_K
(Jason K)
#3
Your trainer is supported, but it only communicates over BLE, so it won’t show up over ANT+. The good news is that if you don’t use anything that else that uses ANT+, you can just return the dongle/cable. 