Does anyone have any insights on when we can expect to be able to use the HR monitor from our Apple Watches with the TrainerRoad app on the iPhone? Similar to zwift. I’m asking because my hr strap is on its last legs and I really don’t want to drop the coin on a new one if this feature is right aro…

[image] TrainerRoad + Apple Watch for HR? [Feature Request] TrainerRoad Software Support for the Apple Watch is not currently on our Development Roadmap pensive

Booooo. Why not? Seems like a pretty valuable feature to add to a health app. I use an Apple Watch to track HR and was bummed to find this out.

This is conjecture on my part, but probably it is connected to how Apple’s watchOS does and does not share heart rate data. If TrainerRoad ran solely on the Apple Watch, they’d probably have access to the heart rate data, but as far as I understand there is no way to connect the Apple Watch to anoth…

I tried it with Zwift a few times. It wasn’t reliably connecting and staying connected. Went back to a HR strap.

I have the new watch and I do not have any problems connecting to Zwift. I run the iPhone app and Apple TV and the watch is the only HR sensor I have. I dropped the chest strap a very long time ago…since optical reading on the wrist became reliable. I think you guys should definitely try to work thi…

I’d love it if TR could make this happen but it is more frustrating that Apple doesn’t make their products play nicely with everybody else. All the different products we interact with can make an Apple Watch app or Apple could just make their product connect like every other heart rate monitor.

Hi guys! I’ve made a small Apple Watch + iPhone app with which you can use the Apple Watch HR with TrainerRoad. It exposes the heart rate of the Apple Watch by sending the data to the iPhone, which then sends it to any other device by mimicking a bluetooth heart rate sensor (I tested it with Traine…

You rock! I wish I had an Apple Watch now …

[image] JorritPosthuma: heartbyproxy@jorritposthuma.nl Look in your Inbox. Wuold love to test it. HAns

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