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Indoor Training: Non-Smart trainer, but have a speed sensor.

Hello,I've looked this up and the searches just keep pointing me to Smart Trainer information, so I'm hoping someone has experience with this scenario. I have an older Fluid2 trainer and speed and cadence sensors. All of this worked well with my older Edge 500. It seems the 530 wants a smart trainer to connect to. How do I use my set-up with the 530 and still get speed from my sensor? I've looked this up and the searches just keep pointing me to Smart Trainer information.

Thank you in advance.

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Garmin-Blake over 3 years ago +1

MGWILDER You will need to go into the sensors menu and only pair the sensor you have access to. In your case it sounds like this is the speed sensor only which isn't a problem at all.

The Indoor Trainer…
Garmin-Blake over 3 years ago in reply to MGWILDER +1

If you pedal your bike for a moment on the trainer and then go into your sensors menu, you can check to see if that speed sensor is automatically connecting or not. Perhaps a battery swap, or at least…

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0 Garmin-Blake over 3 years ago

MGWILDER You will need to go into the sensors menu and only pair the sensor you have access to. In your case it sounds like this is the speed sensor only which isn't a problem at all.

The Indoor Trainer menu option is only meant for smart trainers that can broadcast wirelessly so this menu will not be helpful for you in this case. I have added a link below with information on pairing other sensors to your Edge. Once you have your speed sensor paired, you can start an indoor activity and you will get your speed/distance from that sensor you just paired.

https://www8.garmin.com/manuals/webhelp/edge530/EN-US/GUID-E2E2DC23-7B94-43B4-A30D-5FF32270BEC4.html

0 MGWILDER over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

Hello Blake,

Thank you for your quick response and link. Interesting, as I paired the speed, cadence and HR monitor to the Edge530 and the icons are displayed, but my recent indoor ride did not register speed. I will continue to work with this and figure it out. I will also ignore the indoor trainer menu since it's of no use to me.

Again, thank you for your time,

Mark

0 Garmin-Blake over 3 years ago in reply to MGWILDER

If you pedal your bike for a moment on the trainer and then go into your sensors menu, you can check to see if that speed sensor is automatically connecting or not. Perhaps a battery swap, or at least leaving the battery out for a few minutes before placing it back in can help with that sensor.

0 MGWILDER over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin-Blake

thank you, I will give that a go.

mgw