OK, at first I thought this was an issue with the TACX Bushido.
However, I have come to the conclusion, there is something amiss somewhere in the ZWIFT app.
Let me be clear up-front, 99% of the time, I have NO ISSUES!
Tonight, came to do my session. Same setup as yesterday, and TBH I have not had an issue for a while… until …
Logged on …
Everything found OK, signed up for the WBS ride and went off to do warm up.
Suddenly, no trainer. So I assumed it was because I had stopped pedaling - and the blasted Bushido stops transmitting then
So, started pedaling… nothing … no trainer… my HR monitor was still being picked up - so it was not the ANT+ antenna. Dropped out of Zwift a few times, logged back in again … still not able to find the trainer … HR monitor was fine …
OK - maybe trainer playing up …, so closed Zwift, opened TTS4 … and trainer and HR monitor found immediately… hmm, so nothing wrong with the trainer. Did a calibration test, just to be certain, and all hunky dory…
So come out of TTS4, back into Zwift …, and no trainer found …
In the end missed hooking up on WBS ride, went back into TTS4 and rode there … no glitches at all.
I have had a few of these ANT+ dropouts, which up to now I have blamed on the TACX antenna … however, since everything working fine in TTS4, I have to assume the antenna is working fine.
I know TTS4 might use the TACX propriety rather than Open ANT+, so not ruling out some issue with the TACX antenna - however, it does appear some issue with Zwift picking up the trainer 100% of the time.
Any ideas?
The only thing I have done different today, was I fired up the Zwift app earlier in the afternoon to make some setting changes (to be ready for the later session) and did not have any devices up and running.
However, when I started the session later, with everything switched it, it initially found everything; then had a drop out of the trainer and could not find it again.
I am going to reboot the laptop and see if it “corrects” itself, but I should not have to reboot the laptop to get the Zwift app to work correctly surely?
Tilly