I saw a hint posted on another forum about not lifting your finger off the track pad at the end of the swipe. Once I started doing that the remote became way less finicky.
The remote is weird but you get use to it. The problem I have found is the lag in Zwift it’s self. Zwift seems to be a band with hog and sometimes its will not move as fast as you can change a function using the remote. I have a big band with pipe and Zwift sucks a lot of it down and still likes to move slow in the UI screens.
I still haven’t been able to figure out how to get my HR linked into Zwift. I’m running Apple 4k tv (the Wahoo Kickr is paired as my trainer power and cadence) and I have the companion app open on my Iphone. I wear an old Garmin Fenix 3HR so what I have been doing is just recording my Zwift races as an “indoor bike” ride and I can then view my HR on the Garmin app. The problem is that my HR does not link into Zwift and show up on screen live as it records it separately. After my rides, both Zwift and Garmin will download separate entries on Strava with the Zwift one having all the stats except HR . Does anyone know how to link a Garmin Fenix HR into Zwift via Apple tv or the iphone so that it shows up as a paired device on Zwift? Kppolich, is there someway to disable the Apple 4k remote and just use my Iphone remote to control it so as to free up a BLE channel for my Garmin Fenix?
On a related note, I can’t figure out how to give “ride ons” to anyone with either the apple tv remote or the companion app (I can U turn with the companion app and take pictures). I assume I have to highlight a person’s name on the tv screen but the cursor doesn’t move to that list and allow me to do it.
Finally, to keep it somewhat on topic, I don’t have much problems with the Apple remote after buying one of those cheap rubber covers that go over it from Amazon. It definitely helps - especially when you’re hands are sweaty.
Zwift will not pick up a wrist based heart rate monitor, you need a chest or arm band monitor just make sure it broadcast in Bluetooth and you will be all set. I recommend the coospo, its cheap and it works!
still an issue, hardware issue not a software issue, use your iPhone if you have one instead of the Apple TV remote and you’ll have 3 open BLE Chanels. Or get a CABLE ANT/BLE bridge.
So with this set-up, I won’t need the CABLE Bridge - correct?
Apple TV4K - Elite Direto (power & cadence), Wahoo HR monitor & iphone running the companion app/remote.
Your HR strap has to be bluetooth compatible. I believe, or you phone has to be able to accept ANT+. Bluetooth is the easiest. Apple TV can only accept so may input devices and the remote counts as on of them so its usually maxed out when you use a smart trainer. Link up your HR strap to your phone and the zwift app on your phone will pick up your HR and display it on your apple TV zwift.
I haven’t mastered the thumbs up on zwift either lol.
Just FYI the silver older Apple remote doesn’t work and I also tried a third-party remote, but they don’t seem to work well for zwift either, they have some functionality but I cant get left/right click to work.
I did find one thing that does definitely help the black apple remote in Zwift - and that is to try to keep your finger well planted on the touchpad as you drag around. On most apple TV app’s you can get accurate movement with a quick “swipe” like a touchscreen phone, but that doesn’t work with Zwift very well it seems. It works much better if you use the trackpad more like a mouse and keep your finger firmly planted on the touchpad as you scroll around.
Stupid, yes. But this makes it a lot better and a lot more controllable selecting workouts etc, IMO.
I haven’t mastered the thumbs up on zwift either lol.
Me either so if someone knows how…
I find the AppleTV fine for zwift.
Right up to the moment I start to sweat. It’s then an absolute nightmare
On a related topic, I have an Apple TV 4k coming for Christmas.
I’d like to use it for zwift, but I currently have 3 Sensors. (HRM, Trainer & Cadence)
I know at one point @dcrainmaker said that there was a 2 sensor limit for apple TV.
What I can’t find anymore is if this is still true or if it was fixed with the apple tv 4k? Anyone here know?
What you do is get the Zwift Companion app on your Android or iphone and use that to connect any additional bluetooth devices you want. I believe most smart trainers combine the power and cadence into one signal to the Apple TV, so you would still have one bluetooth channel available for your HR monitor. But I would still recommend you get the companion app, as it will allow you to chat, turn around, and other things without having to use the Apple TV remote.
Apple TV can handle 3 if you don’t have the Apple TV remote paired.
Your iPhone running companion mode can handle as many as you want, you don’t have to send any BLE channels to the Apple TV if you don’t want to. You can send them all to the companion app and it will work just fine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=23&v=drpOX0v7CrY&feature=emb_logo
Apple TV can handle 3 if you don’t have the Apple TV remote paired.
Note that the AppleTV supports infrared remotes as well, so you can use something like the Function Remote without it taking up one of the Bluetooth channels.