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Does Heart Rate Dynamic Source Switching Work with a compatible ANT+ Chest Strap from another brand?

Lewis
over 1 year ago

I buyed a chest strap few weeks ago to improve my heart rate monitoring in sprinting, intervals, etc where the optical heart rate lacks of accuracy, my question is, if the chest strap is not garmin but its ANT+ compatible, will work this new feature between the watch and the chest strap? thanks in advance

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Cssaba

    Source switchings means, having both sensors enabled, the optical heart of the watch and the electric signal of the chest strap, because sometimes the chest straps may disconnect, with this option enabled, will fall the reading to the optical heart rate in the watch until the chest strap reconnects to the watch via ANT+ or BLE, its a good idea, i readed a lot of people having this issues with chest straps disconnecting from the watch, but the point is, that we dont know if this is avalaible to 3party chest straps or only to a few of garmin, hrm pro, hrm fit, etc

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Lewis

    You can this simply test: make a walk, disconnect your heart rate strap completely during the walk and look at the result after uploading.

    If heart rate data is there on the graph, then the feature worked.

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Cssaba

    this is one of my last steady runs, you can see that the chest strap and the optical heart rate of the forerunner is almost the same

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Cssaba

    i think its working, and i will make it enabled in the health options, because if the chest straps fails we can loose the data, garmin said thats is only compatible with garmin hrm straps but i think its compatible with all ANT+ devices

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Cssaba

    Yesterday i disabled the option in the watch and i made a run, now in the .fit file there is no option like wrist base heart rate, so yes, its working with an 3d party ANT+ compatible chest strap

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to Lewis
    Lewis said:
    optical heart rate monitor in the forerunner 255 is very precise

    Compared to what?

    One example - I take my old watch - vivoactive 3 (a 2 generations older OHRS)  out of the drawer and set it on my second arm. 255 and va3 shows me a same HR - 60 bpm. I do 20 pushups. 255 show me 61, va3 - 95 bpm. 

    My answer - the watch with the old sensor react better. 

  • 0 over 1 year ago in reply to global_local

    Compared to chest strap that i own, if you watch the pic i shared few moment ago, you will see how the ohr is paired with the performance of the chest strap, also as i mentioned before, i buyed this watch after of watching tons of reviews for the best quality/price sport watch, i have tried 2 coros watches, last one coros pace 3, i was disapointed by the performance of it and the lag of its ohr, then i tried the forerunner 255, and i was glad with its features, the firmware 19.18 is at the moment working very good