Standing exercise Bicycle data / sensors & the Race
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Hey, I was thinking to buy an indoor / training bicycle. Any idea how/what do I need to do to get data like distance, effort, calories in the watch? (since there’s no GPS / location data involved… )
I know there are sensors that transmit data but I guess you need one of those expensive smart bikes like TACX , Peloton etc etc? -
@George-Katsanos, even if the indoor bicycle does not transmit any data, you still record the heart rate data on the watch, either with the watch optical sensor or an HR belt sensor, from which effort(TSS etc), calories etc are getting calculated.
Indoors speed and distance is a metric which gets impacted by the resistance you chose on the indoor bicycle so most of the time you cannot use these metrics to compare your efforts/trainings.
So, do not get frustrated if you buy an indoor bicycle unit that doesn’t transmit data. Focus on other qualities of the unit you will buy.
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@George-Katsanos
You can track HR with the watch or better with an HR belt, and after you finish the activity, in the watch itself, you’ll have the option to edit the distance. Most indoor bikes have at least the distance shown on their computer so you just enter that manually. -
@mlakis I would like to know if Suunto race can be connected and show data from other sensors, for example a power sensor (a pedal with an integrated sensor that measures your power output). As well as if this data is visible in the suunto app.
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@mlakis said in Standing exercise Bicycle data / sensors & the Race:
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Will the watch and / or the app connect with an external sensor like a pedal with a power meter and show this data or use it to calculate the effort? (aside from the heart rate monitored)
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Yes, Suunto Vertical and Race can connect to various power meters (pedal type, crank type etc), as long as these power meters use Bluetooth for connection. The data are then shown on the app on graphs, average values, used to calculate effort etc.
Mind that most of the power meters can connect to one device at a time when are being used (like HR belt sensors, bike trainers), but some are capable of connecting to two devices simultaneously.
Why am I mentioning this? Because the scenario of using a power meter or a bike trainer with internal power meter along with an app like Swift, Rouvy etc, and having the power and HR data also on the watch and then on the Suunto app is only viable when having HR sensors and power meters that can broadcast to more than one devices simultaneously (one device is the watch, the other is let’s say the laptop that runs Swift).
A viable scenario with simple power and HR sensors (single connection I mean) is connecting them to your watch and use a “dumb” trainer or rollers. Or having two sensors of power (one is power meter, the other is the smart trainer with internal power meter) and HR (let’s say the one is a belt sensor, the other is the optical sensor of the watch). This way you will have the data both on virtual training software and the watch and then on the Suunto app.
I hope I was clear enough, this is a bit difficult to understand when first getting to use sensors, trainers etc.