Vivoactive 4 as Heart rate source for Zwift

Hey guys, I got my Vivoactive 4 and wanted to use it to track and display my heart rate in Zwift. Unfortunately, I absolutely cannot connect the Vivoactive 4 to Zwift to display my heart rate. Do you have any ideas how I can do that?

thanks in advance.

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trux 5 months ago in reply to alfredolucas +2

Vivoactive 4 broadcasts the HR only over ANT+, it does not have the option to broadcast over Bluetooth like other, more recent Garmin watches have. It means the device that runs Zwift has to have an ANT…
trux 5 months ago in reply to 4411990 +1

The problem is that there is only a handful of phones having ANT+ hardware, so that will not work for everyone.

ANT+ enabled phones are listed for example here: ANT+ in Phones and Tablets - THIS IS AN…
usrusr 5 months ago +1

As others have mentioned, VA4 can only broadcast on ANT+. If your Zwift can receive ANT+ (e.g. running on a PC with ANT+ receiver) you still need to activate broadcast on the watch. But you don't want…

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0 8564803 3 months ago

It should be flagged that to connect Garmin HR with Zwift you may need to use the bridging connection option offerd by the Zwift Companion app.

I wasted a lot of time viewing YT videos and forum posts that are misleading, and thinking there was a bug or synching issue eg bluetooth.

So buried over at Zwift has a specific tutorial buried in its help pages (that my Garmin Vivoactive 4 needed) on how to connect them using the Zwift Companion app support.zwift.com/.../pairing-a-heart-rate-monitor-to-the-zwift-hub-BJdmU8so

This is because Vivoactive 4 broadcasts the HR only over ANT+

I hope this helps others out there.