Sensor battery status now in GC inc. non Garmin

5135968 said:

I've not mentioned the Tempe at all, I was talking about Stryd...!

Lol. Threading in here can be a bit hard to follow!

Think I’m now agreeing with you that the Stryd doesn’t show up in ANT. 

I have two HRM Run units, different generations, and they both show up as footpods, so there’s that. The one I renamed shows that, the one I didn’t says Footpod followed by the ANT ID. I’ll rename that too to try to cut the confusion. 

mcbadger said:

Think I’m now agreeing with you that the Stryd doesn’t show up in ANT. 

One thing I've noticed which could be a coincidence - having paired the Stryd and a Wahoo Tickr and Polar H9 as BT sensors today, my watch has been losing 1.5% battery life per hour since just doing nothing, something I haven't seen since the 19.20 battery debacle.

Oh, that's interesting, can you please play with it more and then answer my question here: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/cycling/f/accessories-sensors/293175/cadence-sensor-bt-vs-ant 

And this even more so interests me now because I was just about to but a Polar H9 to myself, so new important info is welcome...

Thx for the fonfirmation.

I have this sort of experience regarding Tempe. Occasional is a right word to describe it.

I lost my confidence when I found the thread in which Jim_m_58 stated that Tempe did not show battery info at all, because Jim always seemed to me a developer having exact info always.

Tisztul_A_Visztula said:

Jim always seemed to me a developer having exact info always.

Jim is tremendously knowledgeable on Connect IQ - I can’t think of anyone who is more expert and I have a huge amount of respect for him. There are a few details of ANT messaging where he’s not quite as accurate, though he still knows more about that than most people do. 
I’ll see if I can  track the documentation down later, I think it’s in the files for one of the PC ANT monitoring programs rather than the FIT SDK

So I have just done about 2 hours indoor riding - I paired the Polar H9 by ANT for the first time to the Forerunner 255. I deleted all BT pairing yesterday from the Fenix 6 as the watch started battery drain even in smart watch mode outside of activities. Drain issue solved as soon as the new pairings added yesterday were deleted. There is probably a bug with a 'hanging' BT connection in BT/ANT/BLE so a BT session is left open on the watch when it should be closed.

I recorded on the F6 and 255 at the same time...

but the H9 does not show up in Devices - even though it transmits battery via ANT and watches even reported low battery status at the start of the first activity today.

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Yesterday when I paired by BT it showed up very quickly (F9.56.71.CB.FA)

So I think if we want reliable battery reporting, we need to use BT, even if battery is reported in the ANT profile.

As I use multiple devices, for me I need to keep to ANT for multiple simultaneous connections.

OK, my new hypothesis is that the Sensors are displayed in GCM if and only if:
- your sensor reports battery status

- you social security number's 5th digit is a prime

- the 7th digit of the sensor's MAC address is not 1,4 or 8, except when it's 8 and the 3rd digit equals to 9- the 2nd digit

Mmhhh... Seems to have some some calculation in common with the algorithm used for the sleep tracking.......