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FR955 Smart Trainer Dropouts

I’ve been using my wahoo Kickr Core for years controlled from a phone (Zwift or trainer road) and paired to my FR935 as a power meter to get all the training load and readiness metrics from Garmin. This has always worked great.

Now that I have a 955, I’ve been loving the daily suggested workouts and I decided to try one on my bike. The problem is, connected as a trainer, I get so many power dropouts the watch thinks I’m failing miserably at the activity. The solution over on the edge forum seems to be “connect it as a power meter instead of as a trainer!” But of course that totally breaks the whole suggested workout scheme.

anyone else running into this issue? Do a bunch of brand new garmins just not support trainers in any useful way? Seems like this can’t be the case.

0 linsguilherme over 3 years ago

alexwhittemore said:
Do a bunch of brand new garmins just not support trainers in any useful way?

Unfortunately, it seems to be the case.

I tried connecting my trainer with:

Edge 520, Forerunner 935, 945, and 955.

The connection drops are presented in all workouts.

I simply gave up.

0 21deef497f4d40fea77ffe7abab8a5b0 over 3 years ago

There is also a question I have. I got a Kickr core last week and did a workout (150w for 90min). I pared the Kickr with my 955 and the watt data was quite different than my element bolt. Garmin Connect says 140w and Element Bolt says 150w. Is it possible that my Forerunner wasn't paired to the smart trainer? Is it possible that my 955 was paired to my left crank stages pwoermeter and took the watts from there? Then I want to know how to pair the smart trainer as my pwoermeter instead of the stages left! Can you please help me?

0 alexwhittemore over 3 years ago in reply to 21deef497f4d40fea77ffe7abab8a5b0

That DOES sound to me like you paired to the stages. That might be my backup plan personally- pair to the trainer for control and my chainring meter for data. Unfortunately, I think the best way to handle that is to disconnect power from as many accessories as you can, pair them one at a time, and rename them as you go so you KNOW which one’s the stages and which one’s the Kickr etc.

In my case, it actually got BETTER when I paired both the trainer and power meter channels of the Kickr Core. Still a handful of dropouts, but I got a 97% execution score instead of the 50% or whatever I had before.

might have to see if the real power meter fares better.

0 alexwhittemore over 3 years ago

Second attempt this morning: with both power and trainer connected, im still getting occasional power dropouts, infrequent enough that I’d tolerate it but frequent enough to be annoying. What I can’t tolerate is that the trainer just dropped to 0 resistance towards the end of my workout. I still had control over it - I was able to manually set the power. But the workout just stopped controlling it at all.

Trainer workouts on the 955 super suck.

0 6770200 over 2 years ago

Has this glitch been fixed? I'm thinking about buying FR955 for custom workouts on smart trainer (and multisport).