Stryd and the Wahoo App

SYSTM Software
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I’m using the wahoo app with a stryd pod. I can set stryd as my cadence and power sensor but I don’t have to option to set it as my speed sensor. The app does get speed data (pace/distance) from the stryd but not consistently. It seems to switch to gps when available and stryd when gps is not available.
In practice this gives awful data. Maybe a bit better than gps alone but still really bad :frowning:

Now I could turn gps off but I want it for the route. Are there any other hidden settings that would give stryd priority for speed data?

When I pair my zwift runpod I can simply select it as the speed source/sensor. But I just don’t get the option with stryd :confused:

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I thought I may as well update this thread for future interest.

I kinda gave up on wahoo as it doesn’t quite do what I’m after and there’s clearly no interest in this around here atm. But someone may come looking in future :wink:

So I’ve been recording my stryd runs with an app called Cadence. It’s not as polished as wahoo but it works… But I’ve been doing more treadmill/zwift running (weather :/) and getting the power metric on those runs is a bit more involved. Basically, I record on zwift and stryd app’s together so I combine them with Gotoes to get the map/pace/hr/etc. from zwift with the power from stryd. Pain in the ar… neck but it works :confused:

So what’s this got to do with wahoo? Well I thought I may as well try this on my real world runs. So I record with wahoo in treadmill mode (no gps) and it actually let’s me choose stryd as my speed sensor!? Why doesn’t it let me do this in normal running mode :man_facepalming: I also record on any other app for gps mapping and combine the two files in gotoes.

So yeah, what a palaver! But I won’t keep this up, I’ll just go back to cadence ‘cos it just works :man_shrugging: But this does show that the wahoo app does know that stryd is a speed sensor but chooses not to let me select it for normal running… Strange :confused: