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Treadmill and footpod

Hi all,

I have a Zwift footpod and it works fine with the Zwift app. Today I wanted to just record a treadmill run directly to my watch. So I connected the footpod directly to my watch and chose treadmill activity. It showed the footpod as connected on the screen and I started the run. But it seemed to me that the watch was just using the accelerometer data rather that the footpod. I did check and it was definitely connected during the run. The reason i think using three accelerometer is that if I stopped moving my arm, the pace dropped and it increased if I moved my arm quicker.

Do I need to do anything to make sure it uses the footpod, any setting for instance?

Or can I check the data for any signs? In the sensor setting it shows speed and distance as indoor.

Thanks,

Steve

0 gingerneil over 4 years ago

You can set the watch to use the footpod for speed, distance or both in the footpod settings. You can check this by then downloading this tool, and checking the activity file.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2011/06/garmin-ant-footpod-calibration-tool.html

0 francis.yates over 4 years ago

I have an NPE Runn and I had the same issues

I had to go onto the footpod in the sensors and change "Speed" and "Distance" from Indoor to All and then it worked correctly

One would think that Treadmill is indoor.. but only when i set it to All did it work correctly

0 SteveBUK over 4 years ago in reply to francis.yates

Thanks. I checked this and assumed it was correct as indoor. I'll try all tomorrow. Fingers crossed!

0 SteveBUK over 4 years ago in reply to SteveBUK

Unfortunately, even when set to all, doesn’t work. Even though says connected, it just uses the watch accelerometer. Maybe will need to look into the NPE Runn. Just seems a shame when I have a footpod. I could record via Zwift but would rather record with the 945 as I like watching tv on the ipad when running. Anyone have any success with the Zwift foot pod? Thanks!