Wahoo / Strava to earn Vitality points

[ChrisF]

5 hours ago, Morne Steen said:

So.... feedback from Vitality.

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How long will it take Discovery to get with the program?

 

To some extent this is NOT Discovery / Vitality.  And I am NOT a Vitality fan .... for various other reasons, but in this case they at least seem consistent, sadly so.

 

STRAVA wants a golden handshake before Wahoo or IndiVelo can auto upload their rides to Strava.  Thus the hack to load the fit files across ....

 

Now the bit I dont understand yet - How do you record an indoor ride on a Garmin device .... easy enough to link the heart rate and cadence monitors .... but where do you get the speed from ?

[Frosty]

49 minutes ago, ChrisF said:

Now the bit I dont understand yet - How do you record an indoor ride on a Garmin device .... easy enough to link the heart rate and cadence monitors .... but where do you get the speed from ?

Most modern trainers have speed calculated from the accelerometer measuring rotational speed at/near the cassette.

[ChrisF]

Just now, Frosty said:

Most modern trainers have speed calculated from the accelerometer measuring rotational speed at/near the cassette.

 

I do believe my Kickr Core works on this principle.  Dont know how/if my Garmin can tap into that information like it can on typical sensors.  Which effectively means that I can only record time, cadence and heart rate on my Garmin during an indoor ride - more accurately, I dont know how to record more directly onto the Garmin.

 

The physical file dump of the fit file seems the only way to get all the data back to Garmin Connect.  Which is okay for a non-Vitality user.  Do wonder though if this works for Vitality users.