Garmin Forerunner 35 Bluetooth

I decided 6 months ago to ditch the HRM strap for a watch and bought the Forerunner 35. It connects no problem with my Edge 530 and the Tacx training app on Android. The only way it will connect on TDA is through ant+. I feel a BT connection on TDA is more responsive with my Neo than ant+ so would prefer to use BT for both. Why will my Forerunner not connect using BT on TDA?

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Paul Heaton over 1 year ago in reply to Former Member +1

No, it's a Forerunner 35 watch. I set it to broadcast HR when out on the bike and using TTA or TDA. Like I said it connects to my Edge 530 and TTA no problem. It will only connect via ant+ on TDA and won…

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0 Former Member over 1 year ago

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0 Malfukt over 1 year ago in reply to Former Member

In DEVICES are you selecting SEARCH in top right of devices screen. As your trainer will already stay as found and connect automatically but new items need to search for.. This is presuming FR35 on Tacx list of devices to find

0 Former Member over 1 year ago in reply to Malfukt

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0 Paul Heaton over 1 year ago in reply to Former Member

No, it's a Forerunner 35 watch. I set it to broadcast HR when out on the bike and using TTA or TDA. Like I said it connects to my Edge 530 and TTA no problem. It will only connect via ant+ on TDA and won't connect via BT despite searching for it. It's no hassle as I often plug in a BT dongle for the Neo and an ant dongle for the Forerunner. I just wondered why the Forerunner connects BT with TTA and not TDA.

www8.garmin.com/.../GUID-B0AEBA8D-7240-40A3-998C-1222C0B4ACF6.html

I may have just found the answer. I assumed that it was connecting to TTA on my phone via BT but I have researched my Samsung S9 and it looks like it has ant+ built in! Looks like the FR will connect but only with ant+