Ok there are two different things happening and they’re both called “smoothing”, which is confusing:
- If your power source (your trainer) has smoothing enabled, it’s doing its own smoothing and reporting smoothed power to TR. If your power line looks really flat and consistent in the TR graph, that’s because the power source is smoothing.
- If the TR app has smoothing enabled, the digital live watts display in the upper left corner will be “smoothed”. TR smoothing does not impact the data points shown in the graph.
There’s a ton more discussion on this, search the forum for “smoothing”.
Erg mode and smoothing are orthogonal concerns. You can use Erg mode without smoothing, and you can enable smoothing without Erg mode.
No, you’re just seeing averaged power instead of peaks and valleys. Your averages haven’t changed.
I need to stop talking about smoothing now because the word has ceased to sound like a word in my head.
