Bluetooth FTMS support?

dreamer_

Hello,

I know Garmin has support for Bluetooth FTMS treadmills, bikes, elliptical, or rowing machines. It seems that Amazfit is also adding FTMS support to their watches.

This is interesting because in a treadmill you can have the real speed/slope synced with your watch. It’s one of the reasons that people buy FTMS treadmills for things like Zwift.

Has anybody experience with Suunto with FTMS?

Thanks

raven

@dreamer_ said in Bluetooth FTMS support?:

Hello,

I know Garmin has support for Bluetooth FTMS treadmills, bikes, elliptical, or rowing machines. It seems that Amazfit is also adding FTMS support to their watches.

This is interesting because in a treadmill you can have the real speed/slope synced with your watch. It’s one of the reasons that people buy FTMS treadmills for things like Zwift.

Has anybody experience with Suunto with FTMS?

Thanks

I don’t think that’s true for Garmin? Garmin has ANT+ FE-C support for somethings, but not bluetooth FTMS, particularly for rowing machines.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=rlynVxyyoq9dcSZGw5YFo8

“ Some Garmin watches have the ability to connect to an indoor rowing machine that supports ANT+ connectivity. Compatible watches may include data fields in the Row Indoor activity profile such as Distance, Pace, Power, and Stroke Distance.”

Some Coros watches can connect to a rower by bluetooth FTMS though.

For the Wahoo KICKR Run treadmill, my understanding is Garmin also uses ANT+ there, and Wahoo/Coros are working on a special bluetooth protocol there such that Coros will not use FTMS either, but FTMS does exist on the Run and can be used say in Zwift.

Can you show a resource that tells which Garmin watches can take a bluetooth FTMS connection to a gym machine of any kind?

dreamer_

@raven said in Bluetooth FTMS support?:

@dreamer_ said in Bluetooth FTMS support?:

Hello,

I know Garmin has support for Bluetooth FTMS treadmills, bikes, elliptical, or rowing machines. It seems that Amazfit is also adding FTMS support to their watches.

This is interesting because in a treadmill you can have the real speed/slope synced with your watch. It’s one of the reasons that people buy FTMS treadmills for things like Zwift.

Has anybody experience with Suunto with FTMS?

Thanks

I don’t think that’s true for Garmin? Garmin has ANT+ FE-C support for somethings, but not bluetooth FTMS, particularly for rowing machines.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=rlynVxyyoq9dcSZGw5YFo8

“ Some Garmin watches have the ability to connect to an indoor rowing machine that supports ANT+ connectivity. Compatible watches may include data fields in the Row Indoor activity profile such as Distance, Pace, Power, and Stroke Distance.”

Some Coros watches can connect to a rower by bluetooth FTMS though.

For the Wahoo KICKR Run treadmill, my understanding is Garmin also uses ANT+ there, and Wahoo/Coros are working on a special bluetooth protocol there such that Coros will not use FTMS either, but FTMS does exist on the Run and can be used say in Zwift.

Can you show a resource that tells which Garmin watches can take a bluetooth FTMS connection to a gym machine of any kind?

Support is through connectIQ. I.E: https://apps.garmin.com/es-ES/apps/bc6d8a92-0216-42c9-b422-32183ceb00b8

There are several apps.

raven

@dreamer_ said in Bluetooth FTMS support?:

@raven said in Bluetooth FTMS support?:

@dreamer_ said in Bluetooth FTMS support?:

Hello,

I know Garmin has support for Bluetooth FTMS treadmills, bikes, elliptical, or rowing machines. It seems that Amazfit is also adding FTMS support to their watches.

This is interesting because in a treadmill you can have the real speed/slope synced with your watch. It’s one of the reasons that people buy FTMS treadmills for things like Zwift.

Has anybody experience with Suunto with FTMS?

Thanks

I don’t think that’s true for Garmin? Garmin has ANT+ FE-C support for somethings, but not bluetooth FTMS, particularly for rowing machines.

https://support.garmin.com/en-US/?faq=rlynVxyyoq9dcSZGw5YFo8

“ Some Garmin watches have the ability to connect to an indoor rowing machine that supports ANT+ connectivity. Compatible watches may include data fields in the Row Indoor activity profile such as Distance, Pace, Power, and Stroke Distance.”

Some Coros watches can connect to a rower by bluetooth FTMS though.

For the Wahoo KICKR Run treadmill, my understanding is Garmin also uses ANT+ there, and Wahoo/Coros are working on a special bluetooth protocol there such that Coros will not use FTMS either, but FTMS does exist on the Run and can be used say in Zwift.

Can you show a resource that tells which Garmin watches can take a bluetooth FTMS connection to a gym machine of any kind?

Support is through connectIQ. I.E: https://apps.garmin.com/es-ES/apps/bc6d8a92-0216-42c9-b422-32183ceb00b8

There are several apps.

Isn’t that like SuuntoPlus? Someone has a Concept2 connection to Sunnto that way.

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/5967/suunto-and-concept-2-indoor-rowing

I don’t consider either that or ConnectIQ a real native solution though. It’s like an Apple person getting additional apps to use for fitness tracking when they aren’t satisfied with what Apple provides in their own apps. It’s fine but not the same as the company doing it properly themselves.