#Cycleops joule manual install#
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#Cycleops joule manual pro#

The VirtualTraining app, quite frankly, kind of sucks:.

It costs $6 per month after the initial 14 day trial periodвЂ“which of course just ran out for me :(

#Cycleops joule manual install#

YouвЂ™ll have to install the ANT Radio Service and ANT USB Service apps from the Play Store (not sure how this works on iOS, but it may not be necessary).See how you can determine if your phone is compatible here. You will need a phone that is capable of USB OTG.However, having said all of this, there are a couple of issues:

#Cycleops joule manual pro#

So! It is entirely possible to record the data from a CycleOps 300 Pro bike without using a Joule head unit. CycleOps must have done something special in their software to pick up the frequency that others do not since the ANT+ key itself seems to have no problem seeing it, thus ruling out the hardware as the issue. It does appear to be true, as IpBike did not recognize any devices. I should note that I also tried the IpBike app to see if the вЂњonly compatible with CycleOps productsвЂќ statement held true. Using the VirtualTraining app ( Android, iOS) I was able to start a вЂњFree RideвЂќ session, and connect to the bike to get cadence and power! Awesome! I plugged my trusty USB ANT+ Key (see my post about why you need one here!) into the OTG cable, and plugged that into my phone. It arrived the day after my next class (of course!) so I had to wait until last night to test it out. However, by this point I had already ordered a USB OTG (On The Go) Adapter cable for my phone ( you can get them very inexpensively) in the faint hope that the VirtualTraining app might work. And yet you still advertise them as ANT+ compatible? I should note here that the newer CycleOps вЂњ PhantomвЂќ line of bikes claim to actually be fully ANT+ compliant, so this applies only to the older bikes (IC 300 and IC 400). That generation of bikes were designed well before the explosion on handlebar mounted technology.вЂ™ When I pressed them for confirmation, they retracted that statement, saying: I emailed their tech support, who first said told me that the bikes are compatible with any ANT+ device (they are not).

#Cycleops joule manual android#

I found one reference on the Cyclops Virtual Training website that listed the IC300 bikes as compatible with their VirtualTraining Android and iOS Apps. Thinking that there had to be a way, I scoured the internet. However, being annoyed led me to do some research. DonвЂ™t get me started on how annoying this is, and how shitty of a business model it is to advertise your product as ANT+ when in fact it is not compatible with other ANT+ productsвЂ¦ Unfortunately, this means that the bikes will not transmit a power and cadence value that you can pick up on a Garmin or other much more common head unit. This limits you to using the Joule line of head units. They in fact use a вЂsubsetвЂ™ of the ANT+ frequency, that only CycleOps products can detect. However, they donвЂ™t use a вЂstandardвЂ™ ANT+ protocol to transmit the data. These bikes have a built in power meter, which is fantastic for training.