I’ve raised a support ticket but just wonder if anyone else has had this issue.
I recently received a new left hand pedal from Favero as part of their recall and I have paired it up to my original right hand pedal in their app.
It shows in the Assioma app correctly as a dual sided PM but in TrainerRoad it is only functioning as a single sided PM.
I tested on my garmin by pedalling with each leg individually and it works as a dual sided PM in there too which leads me to think that something has gone on in the TR app since I replaced the pedal.
Anyone else had this and any ideas while I wait for a response from support?
I could be wrong here, but I’m 95% sure TR (and many other indoor training apps, if not most) only use the LH side PM in any dual sided setup, functionally making them single sided (the apps take the LH side number and double it if i’m not mistaken).
Anyone here on the forum or the TR mods can feel free to tell me i’m wrong, as I’d much rather hear that the apps are using both sides on my assiomas, but this is what I believe i’ve read about in the past.
I don’t think that’s correct and I’ve never heard that. I believe TR uses dual sided PM but only displays one reading, as in not L/R. If I recall TR sees no value in focusing and displaying power L/R. Meaning that they could display L/R but choose not to. This indicates that TR does use L/R when determining power. @Nate_Pearson
Took me a few minutes to find WHY I made that claim, but the reason for it stems from this video from @GPLama, as well as my findings within indoor training apps…
At about 3:30 in, he alludes to this within the context of Zwift and Bluetooth, but I’ve also noted when using my assiomas via ANT+ with powermatch enabled on TR, only the ANT+ ID for my left pedal is displayed in the devices screen…
Again, I could be wrong in my assessment, so it would be awesome to get @Nate_Pearson’s, @Jonathan’s or anyone else at TR’s verification… but this is the suspicion I’ve operated on since watching Shane’s video and my experience with apps i’ve used (TR, Zwift, Fulgaz, etc… all of which only display my Left side ANT ID…)
The ANT ID is suffixed with an L so perhaps this is what’s happening. The weird thing is that I never noticed before. Unfortunately now that I know it is going to drive me insane. Might have to switch back to using the tacx neo for power.
Is that within the context of the TR devices screen? I’ve not noticed the L in particular in TR, only that the ID number itself matches that of my left pedal. When i’ve looked at the ANT+ information within the Assioma app in the past (which typically is only for the occasional firmware check OR when charging my pedals), it denotes 2 unique ANT+ ids (left vs right pedal).
It’s been some time since I verified either one, so maybe that’s changed, but i’m not near my bike at the moment so cannot confirm.
If that’s always been the case then firstly that is pretty rubbish really and secondly I need a way to go back to the time that I was ignorant of this.
I never had actually seen this option before so I had never changed it and suspects it defaults to the Unified option seen above… note the descriptions for each setting…
Unified channel… most apps require this…
Dual channel… both pedals must be paired…
Given this new finding, I switched my pedals over to Dual Channel to check out the devices screen… On neither BT or ANT+ did the TR app recognize a 2nd pedal to pair to (checked against BT on iPhone and iPad and ANT+ on Mac).
I believe that the power from both pedals is combined and the total is sent via the left pedal.
I don’t think the power from the right pedal is ignored.
Pretty sure “Unified L” is the correct setting to get all the power data from DUO pedals to TR via Bluetooth.
I believe with “dual channel” only half is reported as TR only doubles readings from UNO pedals.
I don’t think this is true?
