How bizarre. It’s like it’s pouting that it’s not being used. I wasn’t expecting this kind of issue, given that the Fitbits kept up fine without starting an activity.
Thanks, I will look into that.
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I thought the whole point of @dcrainmaker’s original article was that we no longer need to dual record or use a 3rd party app in order to include TR information into Garmin’s metrics.
Is this functionality no longer supported? The Garmin docs still list TR as one of the “approved” apps to compute this information.
This is a great resource, thanks for sharing! I just tested it out and it was super easy to use.
Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to have made a difference - the workout is still not appearing in my Exercise Load.
If you read through the rest of the thread you’ll see that it never ended up working.
Which is odd, cause each time I sit down to do testing and waste a bunch of hours validating everything that people says is broken - it ends up working just fine.
In almost every case I’ve seen, the issue is that someone doesn’t have the Primary Training Device set correctly. Or, they’re trying to use something that isn’t TR/Zwift and shoehorning it to make it work. Or finally, if Edge only (and not watch), then the double-sync hasn’t happened.
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I thought I read through the thread - maybe not well enough lol. It does seem like Ray has always seemed to get it working, although he is a Garmin whisperer so who knows
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General comment, not about TR sync populating Training Status… Annoyingly one or two things I’ve seen you post in reviews, they don’t work if you only have an Edge (I’ve got an Apple Watch). Foggy memory, but I think one of them is Garmin Connect syncing to Apple Health - I have to use RunGap to sync ride to Health, so that Athlytic can see it.
I used it yesterday and it worked although a ride Monday was not included in load presumably because I forgot my HRM.
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Yeah unfortunately I’ve verified all those things. Edge only, TR only, syncing back and forth over and over and over.
I do have question - when you view the TR activity on your Edge, do you see the “Training Effect” tab? Edit: scratch that, I just reread your original blog post and this isn’t a feature yet
Compared to an outdoor ride, I only see “Summary”.
I also noticed that none of the “time in zone” information seems to be populated correctly for both power or HR. Since the Edge is calculating the metrics on device I wonder if that could be the culprit.
This is feeling more and more like a me issue but I have no idea what it is. I’m going to try again with some older TR rides.
Mine syncs, except for my heart rate. I only got it to show up once, otherwise, it seems I don’t have one all this time. Weird…
in Health? Without a Garmin watch in the past Connect Mobile will sync some worthless stuff into Health at 11:59pm. No HR = no data for other apps like Athlytic which I use for trending analysis of HRV/RHR/sleep/exertion/etc:
Ok, I just looked and apparently Garmin Connect does do a better job syncing now…
However Garmin Connect is not syncing all rides into Health. And last night’s ride is missing some HR data, as if it only sync HR every 30 seconds.
Still need to use RunGap.
I happened to be checking this morning (while making sure my 840 had the public beta turned on) and it is showing my 945 as primary wearable and 840 as primary training device, as they should be (I think). I recently went from an 800 to a 840 and I think I just have been dual recording since getting that, unclear why this was suddenly important to me. So maybe I missed that it just worked finally if the 840 auto set to primary training device? Tree guys interrupted my workout this morning so need to hop back on trainer tonight and guess I’ll test it TR only and see what happens.
If the 945 was set to primary wearable not training device would that have been the issue? since the 800 would not have been compatible the whole time?
Hmm. I did get, like I might have said, ONE ride to report heart rate, and that was it. I have weeks of no heart rate, and that’s across both indoor and outdoor rides. I talked to a Garmin support droid, and he said it ‘usually just works’, and I said mine ‘usually does not work’. He said it was ‘an Apple Thing’ and wished me luck. I just gave up… I mean. Strava has it all, and I would have thought that Strava would feed to Connect, AND Connect does have heart rate data, so where is it not going and why? And the kicker, why did it work exactly once, and never again.
Isn’t high tech just fantastic!?!?
Oh: AND I use a Garmin HRM strap… 
After that quick spot check, I went into Health and disabled Connect.
RunGap grabs either Strava or Garmin data and writes it into Health, complete with laps, power, HR, cadence, speed, gps, etc.
So my experience has been to always put the wearable as the primary training device too. The reason is, it just doesn’t matter because the wearable will take the file from whatever created it, and do the magic and spit it back out again. Versus with an Edge, you have to ensure the double-sync/etc happens.
I’ve always kept my wearable as the primary wearable and primary training device.
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Will swap and test, thanks
I thought more sources were better. Hmm…
So I should setup my Garmin HRM strap as primary? For whatever reason, the Edge didn’t even pick up my strap. Weird…
I would love to hear more about what my user error might be, in the hopes you have an easy fix!
- My primary training device is set to the watch (see screenshot).
- I do not have any menu/option to select a primary wearable, which I gather would be in the same general area of the app if available, presumably because I only have the one wearable.
- I am using actual Trainer Road (running on iPad with chest strap).
- I have an Edge but it’s not connected to the trainer and not selected as primary training device.
p.s. long-time listener, first-time caller, etc.
