Totally New Desktop App! 🎉 🎉 🎉

[Woody]

@Geoff

We’ve setup the keyboard shortcut “T” to do this. Just tap “T” on your keyboard during your ride and it will toggle workout text on/off.

Ahh, brilliant!

[ValeCyclist]

Woooah, presumtious…much. Always use it on a laptop, don’t have a tablet.

[mcneese.chad]

Well, this is a discussion in the “Totally New Desktop App!” thread, so I think it is a reasonable assumption.

He also happens to be completely correct on the setup definition/recommendation.

[ValeCyclist]

Just used the new desktop app (as I don’t own a tablet and my phone is too small to read ) and have to say it’s a big improvement, the stats bar is exactly what I want to see. Great work.

[Alen]

@Nate_Pearson

Yes, I’ve been putting in some of the things needed for this (accessibility targets) but we’re still a ways off. We are much closer now with this new desktop app (and soon on the mobile app) for better features for visually impaired athletes.

I’d personally really like a screen reader to read our workout text. That combined with an ERG trainer could make for a pretty nice experience for visually impaired athletes. Maybe then have the ability to toggle through the current stats to understand how much time is left in the workout and interval or what their current power target is.

If you do this, can I have a hot sexy voice reading it instead of chad?
Morgan Freeman would be nice too with the occasional drill sergeant yelling at me to keep going.

[Wahoowheezewizzard]

Coach Chad giving instructions in German? I predict a 0% failure rate!

[ANITA]

amazing improvements

I have a suggestion - trainrroad recommends to do a spindown before every workout but for best results they say you should ride the trainer a few minutes before that.

In every workout there are a few minutes warmup wouldn’t it be nice for convenience & accuracy to let the user do a spin down after that as part of the workout so for the main work everything is set up perfect.

[Nate_Pearson]

@ANITA

In every workout there are a few minutes warmup wouldn’t it be nice for convenience & accuracy to let the user do a spin down after that as part of the workout so for the main work everything is set up perfect.

We agree with you.

This feature has been on the back burner for a while, I’m not sure when we’re going to complete it.

[Travisza]

Couldn’t find an answer to this question so hope it hasn’t been asked before…how will we know when the Beta version has been replaced by the production version?

Should we just keep checking back here and on the Bug thread to see when Beta development has ended?

[ericallenboyd]

Sweet. Is there a reference somewhere with all of the shortcut keys?

[jetmech737]

I now will be back to using TR exclusively on my PC because of this new app.

[jetmech737]

It would have been great to have R. Lee Ermey (of Full Metal Jacket fame) yelling the workout instructions, as well as some “motivational” words of encouragement.

[Nate_Pearson]

We’re going to replace the production app with this one today if everything goes well with our final testing.

[ANITA]

@Nate_Pearson

This feature has been on the back burner for a while, I’m not sure when we’re going to complete it.

It’s nothing I really need NOW was just an idea I thought I could hand you over

[ming]

TrainerRoad Keyboard Shortcuts

Here ya’ go!

[Nate_Pearson]

Our desktop app has now been promoted to production!

That means you can stay on the beta version or switch back to the regular production version and it will upgrade you automatically.

It’s a big day for us!!

[Travisza]

Awesome, thanks Nate. Goes without saying that I’m super chuffed with TrainerRoad…been the best thing for my cycling since I started riding.

Thanks so much to you and your team

[Thebigred]

Thank you. I am going to give it a try this evening.

Are there any plans to bring analytics on desktop? That will be awesome.

Thanks again for all the efforts.

[rocourteau]

Great work. The app is stable, looks good, and gives us no reason whatsoever not to train… and that’s the whole point. Keep up the good work.

[Nate_Pearson]

Yes, that’s the long term goal but we are updating mobile first.