Auto Pause Does Not Work In Indoor Bike App

Sorry no i havent.  But I wish I had a Kickr to try and reproduce the issue myself.   #enviousOfYourKickr

Hi kafolske,

Thanks for this report. I am able to reproduce this and I'm creating a bug report. I believe the issue is a safeguard to prevent autopause from occurring when a sensor disconnects, but the safeguard is falsely triggering when your trainer is stopped. 

When you tried the Custom Autopause setting, what value did you select for speed? 

Thanks,
Mel
Garmin Outdoor Software Quality Team

I tried 1MPH or 3MPH....or possibly both.  Sorry, I was frustrated and it was 5am in the middle of my workout....and my dog pee-ed on the rug...hence the need to pause.

Autopause is for when you stop moving, not for when you stop pedalling. Whether descending Alpe d'Huez or Alpe du Zwift, without pedalling, is your heart rate not still elevated, but recovering? Are you not still burning calories? If you're in the workout why would you want to pause recording? If you stop to make a coffee or go to the loo then pause manually. There is no sense in autopause for indoor cycling, IMHO. It'll just mess things up.

You didn't read the description of the problem.  It does make sense.

with drivo, it works

Well, Ok, your speed sensor reads zero, but so what? You're sat indoors not going anywhere. Your GPS is not enabled. Why do you care about autopause? I'm not being argumentative. I genuinely don't understand why you would care to have autopause doing anything.

I've been riding indoors for four years and have clocked up over 40,000 km on Zwift alone, plus other platforms. Never once has it occurred to me that I would need or even want autopause. It's not crossed my mind.

I started to think about this more.  I dont cycle much anymore, just running. But one of the first things I do with all garmin is to disable the autopause.  For me I figure, if I stop running (at an aidstation) I still want the overall time reflected in my pact.  That is just me.

For cycling, I had not considered auto pause.  eezytiger thought if useless, you and OP dont.  That  got me thinking.  I love learning new ways to use the watch.  So while indoor cycling,  if you stop pedaling, maybe for a brief coast or a rest.  You are looking to have the activity actually pause ?

So by using autopause you want to record that actual time in which you legs were moving?  Someone in the software group should consider factoring in the cadence sensor then.

interesting to learn the benefits you get from auto-pause in cycling.  Good news, sounds like Garmin is already working on an update for you

Auto pause should happen when the speed goes to zero.  My use case is to turn on my fan after a warm up (my location is pretty cold), if I need to get off the bike to adjust the trainer, add air to my front tire, etc.  It doesn't happen all of the time but it is useful.

Regardless, it is a feature of the watch and because it doesn't work and someone online feels it isn't useful, doesn't mean we should walk away and just let it be broken.