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No weekly intensity minutes for Zwift activities

RolandR88
over 2 years ago

Zwift activities are missing from weekly intensity minutes completely

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Did you wear a Garmin watch supporting the feature of Intensity Minutes?

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to trux

    Sure! Fenix 6X but obviously don’t wear it on Zwift. Btw. just to clairfy: everything else is imported to Garmin, Activities, HR, Elevation, Calories, Training Effect

  • +1 over 2 years ago in reply to RolandR88
    RolandR88 said:
    Sure! Fenix 6X but obviously don’t wear it on Zwift.

    Why obviously? Most people wear the watch 24/24. Regardless, you should, otherwise no IMs can be attributed, since it is only the watch that calculates them, using the heart rate. Zwift has no such capability.

    And you best link the HRM strap (that I assume you wear) to the watch too - in that way you do not even need to wear the watch, just keep it nearby, so that it can stay connected to the HRM. The strap can be simultaneously connected to multiple devices. Although in that case you'd need to start an activity to activate the connection to the HRM. You can then discard it at the end, to avoid the duplicate.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to trux
    • Yea, that would be extremely complicated. It has worked up to a month ago and I am surely not double tracking and then deleting just because a bug has been introduced. I will train on Zwift the whole winter. Really sad.
    • Just to add: the fully Zwift activities are on Garmin, including Heart Rate and everything. It‘s just a bug and should not be necessary to double track…
  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RolandR88

    If you find it complicated, just wear the watch while pedaling. Cannot be simpler. I do not think you ever had IMs from Zwift rides, unless you have worn the watch.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RolandR88

    You don't have to double track. The watch will measure you heart rate and calculate intensity minutes without an activity. If you want the most accurate data you will need to start an activity on the watch and in the end discard it, but I think it is good enough to just wear the watch. I never double track my rides.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to e7andy

    I can’t do that, because the watch will count steps and the whole kcal measurement is wrong then. Add to that, that wiest HR is inaccurate while there is a activity with perfect measures in terms of HR and Power, I don’t see the point. If it will be this way from now on, I‘ll use Strava or Intervals.cc snd forget about Connect.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to trux

    It was simpler up until August, just sayin… also works on other platforms flawlessly.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RolandR88
    RolandR88 said:
    I can’t do that, because the watch will count steps and the whole kcal measurement is wrong then

    First of all, the watch detects no steps on a bike. Then, the calories calculation is not based on the the steps. 

    RolandR88 said:
    It was simpler up until August, just sayin…

    I doubt you got any IM's when not wearing the watch. If you are sure you did, please post screenshots of an IM graphs from that time. You can see it easily on this address (change the date in necessary): https://connect.garmin.com/modern/daily-summary/2022-08-02/intensityMinutes  

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to RolandR88

    If you start a bike activity on the watch the step counter is turned off. If you don't start an activity it might count a few steps but that will be very few since you don't move your arm. The watch will start to count steps after 10 consecutive steps and that should never happen on the bike.