HR broadcast to Wahoo not working?

[Audaxjoe]

@UjcoCZ luckily we are all different. I am totally happy with my setup and it good to hear you like yours

[gkaempfer]

@UjcoCZ 1. Your comment is irrelevant. HR broadcast to a bike computer makes sense. Wahoo has popular bike computers. Suunto should work with them.
2. I don’t use a HR strap. My V2 works fine for me since the latest updates and HR is very reliable even when doing some rough biking.

[raven]

@UjcoCZ said in HR broadcast to Wahoo not working?:

@Audaxjoe I understand both of you, though I prefer simplicity—having two parallel recordings isn’t exactly that.

Two parallel recordings can have the following benefits:

1. One can be a backup of the other. In the event something weird happens (device OS crash, etc.) then you have a pristine copy. While likely not worth going out and buying a second device just for this purpose, why not use it if you have it?

2. Confirmation of various metrics. For example, those who wear two GPS watches on a running session can check the overall distance and paths each watch created. One will see this in testing with people like DCRainmaker, but again, people who happen to have two devices can compare accuracy.

3. Some devices prefer having sessions recorded with their own devices. For example, Garmin can handle a session differently if it was imported into Garmin Connect versus recorded natively on one of its devices. Imported sessions “wouldn’t count” for some of their summary metrics. Over at Apple, sessions can show “Active Calories” versus “Total Calories” with the latter including BMR (basal metabolic rate), but imported sessions show the same value for both categories. See this article for details:
   https://lifehacker.com/health/active-calories-versus-total-calories

4. If one wants data in multiple places, then a native recording can be simpler to accomplish that than using apps like RunGap to do the importing, or worse, doing it manually by exporting from one device then importing to another. You mention “simplicity” above — isn’t it simpler to have a Wahoo device write to Wahoo and a Suunto device write to Suunto than to have an export/import situation in-between? One can argue either side of that.

I dual record with Apple and Suunto, and at one point just used Suunto, but Suunto’s export to Apple Health gave me running sessions without map data. In general, Suunto’s support for writing data to Apple Health is suboptimal. Meanwhile, if I want ZoneSense data on my runs, I need to use an external HRM with Suunto — I can’t simply import an Apple recording running session and get this. So I wear a Polar H10 chest strap which sends two bluetooth signals. One goes to Suunto and gives me ZoneSense data, and the other goes to Apple Watch, and I get session data properly written to Apple Health.

[Sascha Domres]

@gkaempfer Same here

[Webby Skymaster]

+1
Suunto Vertical 2 + Wahoo Roam 2 = no HR broadcast recieved

[johann.fuehrer]

My HR strap was worn out today and I wanted to use HR broadcasting to have HR on my Wahoo ELMNT Bolt V2. The Vertical 2 was found and paired and in the app I can also see that the Bold has connected, but the HR is never shown - only n/a on the display
This was a bit disappointing

[Mads Hintz-Madsen]

@johann.fuehrer are you on the new Q2 firmware?

If so, then that is definitely disappointing. This bug has been there since the 3 month old Q1 firmware.

[johann.fuehrer]

@Mads-Hintz-Madsen yes, I am

[gkaempfer]

@johann.fuehrer very disappointing.

[isazi]

HR broadcast to Wahoo seems to be fixed in the next firmware version. Thanks everyone for reporting it.

[herlas]

@isazi don’t mean to hijacked this thread, but on my RaceS HR broadcast has been lost a couple of times in the middle of a ride, it’s has happened in 2 activities out of 40 but do you know if this issue is known? behavior is hammerhead will not see the HR sensor anymore. Thanks,

[isazi]

@herlas I have not any experience with this feature, just reported this issue with Wahoo and giving an update now. Because Race S did not get Q2 update sensors/BLE are a bit behind software wise. Next update should hopefully improve all the BLE related features.