Running Powermeter connection no longer working

Leave it to Garmin to continue to screw up Stryd's integration.  What the heck, Garmin?

I ran a race yesterday with my stryd connected and I’m on the latest firmware.

I had runningpower from a ciq datafield on my watch and in garmin connect, the power from my stryd is shown (same numbers as in stryd power center).

As a side node, cadence and groundcontact time from stryd and garmin (probably from the cheststrap) are pretty close. Although for some reason garmin plots it’s own groundcontact in a graph with 200 - 250 as scale and ciq groundcontact time it uses a 0 - 500 scale, so the graph is pretty useless.

And my watch buzzes like crazy quite often when connected to my stryd and becoming a bit unresponsive (screen stays just black for a few seconds)

I think you may be misunderstanding.  CIQ Stryd fields still show Stryd power.  What has changed is that we previously could connect a generic power meter in a Run activity, which allowed the Stryd pod to connect that way AS WELL and normal Power data fields could be leveraged to show watts.

Garmin seems to have disabled that second aspect - I can't get the little lightning symbol during activity start up anymore, which indicates a power meter is present and connected.

Unless I'm missing something, this is a deliberate and malicious change enacted on Garmin's end.  I'd love to be wrong of course, and this is predating NATIVE connectability for Stryd to my 965.

Ah, I see. Thanks for clarifying. I guess I don’t use my stryd that way, but I do find the garmin/stryd connection sub optimal, and I’m not surprised they frustrate non garmin power.

It’s the same thing with weight, where garmin childishly refuses to read weight from Apple health (where my connected scales push their data to) just to force more sales of their overpriced and buggy garmin scales.

With the Stryd datafield I can see the Power numbers from Stryd on my FR965 watch. But I can't see them in my Engo2 glasses, that's a big miss. I'm on the newest standard firmware (21.19).

yes.  I've withheld from updating to the latest firmware.  I'm still on 20.32 and not planning to update until Garmin gets the powermeter connection for running figured out.  my understanding is the Stryd datafield has some special coding they use where they can connect as a footpod and it still records the running power within their datafield.  Other datafields my understanding don't quite have that capability and need to be able to connect as a powermeter which Garmin seemed to have f#@$ed up with the latest firmware update Garmin-Sierra!

please send an email or chat to Garmin support!  not just on this forum. I've tried notifying them but they say they can't help since I haven't updated my watch to the latest firmware and mine doesn't have the issue.  they need to access data from your watch to see what the issue is and fix.

Same problem, with the latest firmware update the “367runfields” data page no longer takes running power data from stryd but marks the one from garmin. 

I will get in contact with them and open a case/ticket

please contact Garmin Support via email or chat to let them know of the issue