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Why will power recorded on an indoor trainer not populate into the power curve?

Training Rides on an indoor trainer, owned by Garmin, riden on Zwift, will upload to the connect app just fine But the power will not populate the power curve and performance metrics. You guys really need to get with the program and join the modern world. I'm extremely frustrated with all the money I've invested in garmin for, at best, substandard integration.

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trux over 5 years ago in reply to Dogensmoon +1

Dogensmoon said:
I'm mad because I wasted time and money investing in what, based on the massive amount of money they charge, could and should be the best integrated fitness system in the world instead…

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0 trux over 5 years ago

Dogensmoon said:
I'm extremely frustrated with all the money I've invested in garmin for, at best, substandard integration.

I just wonder what the standard integration is, who offers it, and why you do not invest your money into the standard solution instead

0 Dogensmoon over 5 years ago in reply to trux

Let's see, training peaks and today's plan have no problem showing the power curves. Garmin and Connect, want to be training and fitness providers but won't do basic integration. Connect says I'm 'under-training' because it won't recognize the 120+ training miles I've riden in the last week and a half. I have a garmin watch that measures all of my steps, sleep etc so it would be nice if they would recognize indoor trainers... Especially Tacx, which, you know, they Own?! Do you know that the app for Tacx (which what was that again... Oh yeah, they OWN) won't even directly populate into connect? You have to manually download and transfer the files. Garmin is becoming the butt of their own jokes. Any other questions?

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Dogensmoon

Dogensmoon said:
Any other questions?

Yes: why did not you select a product of a competitor instead, meeting your requirements of the standard integration?

I guess, because there is none. In other words your "standard" is purely hypothetic. In fact there is no such standard. All this is a quite new technology quickly evoluting every month, and the development takes its time. So instead of bashing the manufacturer, consider suggesting them politely your wishes (for example through the form at www.garmin.com/.../), and wait till they get high enough on the priority list of the development team, to be implemented.

0 Dogensmoon over 5 years ago in reply to trux

So you didn't read what I wrote? This isn't new technology, it has been around for 6-8 years and you're telling me that the biggest company in the fitness world can't solve the problem? I pointed out two fitness sites out of many that can, and do accept data from many different types of products power meters, cycling head units, watches, (wahoo garmin, assioma, powertap, quarq, etc) and they use that data to create and track fitness. You're just mad because your drinking the garmin kool-aid and I'm mad because I wasted time and money investing in what, based on the massive amount of money they charge, could and should be the best integrated fitness system in the world instead of a poor approximation of a 3rd rate hack site.

0 trux over 5 years ago in reply to Dogensmoon

Dogensmoon said:
I'm mad because I wasted time and money investing in what, based on the massive amount of money they charge, could and should be the best integrated fitness system in the world instead of a poor approximation of a 3rd rate hack site.

So sell it all and buy products from a competitor offering the standard available solution you write about.