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New Update has completely altered my settings for my turbo!

grellboy
over 4 years ago

Absent-mindedly just pressed "Update Now" on my Garmin 530 the other night. It updated it to software version 7.00 but then as soon as I turned it on again it made my ride on my turbo go crazy! Straight away the turbo (Tacx Flow 2240) turned jerky and then the metrics all vastly inaccurate. I was doing 22 mph when apparently at less than 50% of my FTP! I don't really use the smart aspects of the trainer, i just like to increase the power through gear changes, so I don't need any extra resistance coming through from the turbo but whenever I now try to adjust the turbo via the "indoor trainer" it either becomes really easy of a complete grind. All I want is for the turbo to go back to normal - as it was before the new Garmin update. Any ideas anyone? 

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    Mine now starts with grade set as 1%, have to manually set it back to 0%, sometimes it will change to 1% during ride

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to alannmills

    That's what mine does! The few times I've tried in the last couple of days it seems I have to reset it each time, whereas before it always remembered the settings and didn't need altering every time. So annoying!

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to grellboy

    Possibly unrelated to your issues; but there has been a long standing issue with my Edge 1030 & Neo2T where the were regular Power & Cadence dropouts when doing ERG workouts using Power Targets. In recent F/W releases this became more of an issue as the Edge would lose trainer control randomly & when trainer control established again the Power Target would be replaced by Trainer Resistance at 1%.

    I had the Trainer Sensor paired as well as the Power & Speed/Cadence sensors of the trainer paired separately too. This is because some power based metrics are not available when deriving power from the Trainer Sensor & are only available from a paired Power Sensor.

    I discussed the dropouts with Garmin who suggested that although not ideal; the Trainer connection would be more stable if I removed the additional Power & Speed/Cadence sensor pairings.

    I did some testing to provide Garmin with some feedback & these are the results....

    Test 1 - I disabled both the Trainer; Power Sensor & Speed/Cadence Sensor pairings leaving only the Trainer Sensor pairing enabled.

    During this test; Speed, Cadence and Power* information was displayed & I didn’t experience the Trainer connection dropouts where Target Power was being replaced by Trainer Resistance.

    * However, there are some issues with this configuration. Some CIQ datafields, which perform calculations from power data  do not work without a paired power sensor & remain blank. Secondly & more importantly; The native Garmin advanced power metric datafields like Power Balance, Pedal Smoothness, etc do not work and remain blank as this data can only be enabled for a paired Power Sensor not for a Trainer Sensor.

     Test 2 - I enabled the Trainer; Power Sensor pairing leaving only the Trainer Speed/Cadence Sensor pairing disabled.

    In this test the CIQ datafields, showed Power data & the native Garmin advanced power metric datafields like Power Balance, Pedal Smoothness, etc worked as expected. In addition to this I didn’t experience the loss of the trainer connection where Target Power was being replaced by Trainer Resistance.

    However, there are some issues with this configuration too. I began to see both Power & Cadence dropouts again & although not as frequent as previously experienced when everything was paired these dropouts still shouldn’t be occurring.

    I hope this helps in some small way.?