Resolve conflict when more than one rider and more than one trainer and HR monitor try to connect
Currently if more than one person is trying to connect their smart trainer and HR monitor to TPV there are issues with conflicting connectivity. Turning Bluetooth off on one device after connecting helps the other rider connect, but you need to do this each time you ride, and that is time consuming.
Justine Stevens-Clark
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Many thanks for your suggestion, and support for TrainingPeaks Virtual.
I'm delighted to say that this has now been implemented in the latest release (v0.4.9) which is out today. This release significantly reworks the pairing process to enable support for a wider range of devices and multi-user environments where there are many different devices all in the same room.
This should address the vast majority of the pairing issues previously experienced, but if there are any specific devices that TrainingPeaks Virtual still does not recognise, then please feel free to raise a new UserVoice suggestion for that specific device so we can investigate and add support for you.
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Jared
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I can confirm, this happened again today. As soon as I killed TPV, my wife's computer was able to grab her trainer.
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Jared
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My wife and I both have TACX Neo 2T units in the same room to which we connect using 16" MacBook Pros. I use TPV and she uses Zwift. The other day, she could not connect her computer to her trainer during my workout. After some trouble-shooting, we could not solve the issue, so I connected Zwift to her pedals for "power" and she pushed off. I noted that I could see her trainer in TPV even though Zwift could not. After I finished my workout, I closed out TPV and then, out of curiosity, decided to try and pair her trainer again. Viola! There it was! I connected Zwift to it and she was able to able to train, per usual.
Fast forward to today, I was on the trainer again and decided to test my theory. Sure enough, I could not get her computer to recognize her trainer. So, after my workout, I closed everything out, fired up the TACX app to check that the firmware was current on both Neos (it was) and then repeated the process. When TPV is running, her computer cannot "see" her trainer and when I close TPV, Zwift can once again see it. NOTE, I have never connected TPV to her trainer.
I have turned her bluetooth off, restarted the trainer, restarted Zwift, etc. Nothing will remedy the problem as long as TPV is running.
Is it possible that TPV is hijacking the Bluetooth connection to the 2nd trainer even though it is not paired to it? I have attached my last two rides log files for reference (somewhat anonymized). Noted in the log file from today, it IS connecting to her device and doing an "audit?" Her device ID is 50110, mine is 43767.
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Wally Galasso Walder commented
actually the sistem doesn’t allowed two athlets to train together, heart rate and powermeter (elite direto) is not found. The one from the t