I am using two mobile devices to connect to Zwift, both of the same brand (Apple): a tablet and a smartphone.
On my tablet, I use the Zwift app to see my ride/race/workout. At the same time, I use the Zwift Companion app on my phone. But most of the time, the dashboard doesn’t show up during rides. So what I see is kind of useless.
Is there a way to have an active Zwift Companion-dashboard on your phone whilst “playing” Zwift on your tablet?
I am doing things as described (same Wifi, same account on both apps), but without success (most of the time, during 2 out of my 11 rides till now I did see the dashboard in the companion app on my phone).
That would not matter in most cases. It can work when a PC is hardwired and the device running the ZCA is wireless. I have also tested it using both 2.4 and 5GHz as well connecting across VLAN/Subnets. I need to test across VPN, but I think it should work if there is a route and communication between the 2 networks is permitted.
So basically, there just needs to be a route and permission for the connection to be made.
Tried to connect with two companions today on the same mesh network and it worked once but oddly I only needed to cycle at 50 Watts to keep up with the group. That was using my Sony mobile and Samsung A10 tablet.
It was a big group ride and it wasn’t long before the Sony reset the app (it does this went the group is very large, don’t know why) , then I couldn’t get both back connected and I had to up the power back to normal to keep up.
I also noticed that the two companion apps were not the same yet both are updated fully. The Samsung didn’t show the Zwifters nearby.