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Today Tacx announced and made available open ANT+ trainer profile support. This support (technically called FE-C, for Fitness Equipment – Controls), allows any 3rd party app to control certain Tacx trainers, as part of their. These trainers were introduced last fall at Eurobike 2014, and were made widely available shortly thereafter. The trainers are attractive in that they support dual ANT+ and Bluetooth Smart broadcasts.
This means that any ANT+ capable head unit (be it a Garmin device or a PowerTap Joule) can pickup the signals. Similarly, any Bluetooth Smart device (such as those from Polar and Suunto) could conceivably pickup the broadcasts of power, speed, and cadence. The challenge however, was that while the Tacx Smart trainers (Bushido, Vortex and Satori) broadcasts open ANT+/BLE, they didn’t allow for control of the trainer. Instead that required the Tacx suite of applications, albeit available on Android, iOS and PC. That also meant that one couldn’t use any of the more open control, like that of the. With the Tacx FE-C control though, that fully changes.
This is in some ways one of the lesser kept secrets out there, with some news slipping out by a 3rd party back a number of months ago as to the planned support. Still, it’ll be much appreciated by many given the lower prices of the Tacx trainers. Supported Trainers Tacx has rolled out control within their Smart series of trainers that support resistance control. This means that these trainers can have the resistance dynamically changed by apps as those apps see fit. For example, if you’re climbing a hill, the app will automatically change the resistance. Similarly, if you’re doing interval workouts the trainer will automatically iterate through different wattages.
Tacx has a number of trainers that support resistance control, but only some of them do so electronically. And a further subset are labeled ‘Smart’ trainers, which means they have dual protocol support. The trainers that support ANT+ FE-C (trainer control) are: A) Tacx Bushido Smart Trainer B) Tacx Vortex Smart Trainer Why not other trainers?
Well, Tacx has said that their other electronic trainers (such as their Genius and non-Smart series) don’t have enough channels on the older ANT+ chips within them to enable control. Similarly, for cheaper trainers such as their Tacx Satori Smart, that doesn’t support automated (computerized) control, since it has a cable control mechanism – so that’s not supported either. To summarize, the following trainers are not supported: A) Tacx Satori Smart (physically cable-controlled) B) Tacx Genius series (older non-Smart unit, they haven’t released a ‘Genius Smart’ model) C) Tacx Bushido (non-Smart) D) Tacx Vortex (non-Smart) E) Anything else that’s not in the section previous to this So how do you upgrade your trainer? Via a simple app. Tacx today released a, this app connects to your Smart series trainer and updates the trainer’s firmware. Once upgraded, then 3rd party apps that support the ANT+ Trainer Profile can control it as they see fit. As for Android support, that’s coming shortly – Tacx is aiming for the end of June to have that complete.
If you look back to other companies that initially supported firmware updates wirelessly, such as Wahoo Fitness, it was similar with iOS first. As I noted then – if you lack an iOS phone yourself, simply offer an iOS friend a beer in exchange for the few minutes to upgrade your trainer. You only need it for the initial upgrade. Supported Apps One of the challenges that I’ve complained about with the ANT+ Trainer Control support is that it not only lacked any trainers, but lacked any apps to support it. Thankfully, Tacx seems to have knocked out two birds with one stone.
Not only did they release the firmware update today, but the three big apps in the trainer profile space have also announced near-immediate availability of support in their lineup. Trainer Road: Their update will allow both iOS and Desktop control of the Tacx Smart series trainers in the next few days. They plan to roll out support later today (Tuesday). At the same time, they’ll also release support for their desktop app control.
You can see this below. Is known primarily for their power-based workouts. With this release they’ll support the ability to control the Tacx trainer for any of the workouts they have. This includes both workouts with videos (i.e.
Their SufferFest videos), as well as ones without videos. As with virtually all other electronically controlled trainers, Trainer Road supports calibration of the Tacx Smart units as well. Kinomap: Longstanding has also added this in effective this past Thursday, primarily on the Android side where ANT+ connectivity is a bit cleaner/easier to achieve than on iOS. With iOS they’re still working through what level they’ll support it, though it sounds like direct Bluetooth Smart control is likely to happen (since the Tacx Smart trainers support that). Whereas on Android there are numerous phones that have built-in ANT+ connectivity, such as the majority of recent generation Samsung phones.
Zwift: Finally,. Zwift quietly implemented support for the Tacx trainers a while back – though you wouldn’t know it otherwise. As long as you upgrade your trainers firmware first, you can then scan for the trainer using the usual Zwift option, which will in turn find the trainer and allow you to control it. Super simple. Zwift is most well known for their massive online multiplayer 3D world that’s attracted thousands of cyclists (or tens of thousands by Zwift’s released numbers).
You can earn points and prizes based on your interactions within the environment and other players. They recently announced switching to a public/open beta program – meaning you no longer have to wait in line for an invite. PerfPro: Just as a quick post-publishing update, I from the folks behind this popular trainer app that they’ll support the ANT+ FE-C (and thus by extension the Tacx Smart Trainers) in their next update. Definitely good news – especially so for the many for multi-person sessions. Veloreality: In another, they’ve also confirmed plans to support FE-C in the near terms (days/weeks). Update again: Beta. Maximum Trainer: The Maximum Trainer app has also announced compatibility, you can find page.
Final Thoughts (Above: The Tacx ANT+ Android micro-USB Adapter, Tacx ANT+ USB Desktop Adapter, and ANT+ iOS Adapter) There’s no doubt this is a massive move for Tacx. They’ve had some extremely competitive trainer offerings price-wise with the Bushido & Vortex Smart, but their app software has always been a bit of their Achilles heel for the company – causing some users to look at more open options (mainly the Wahoo KICKR, but also the CycleOps PowerBeam Pro). With the open ANT+ FE-C though, that will quickly enable more than just these three major trainer apps to support the Tacx trainers.
In fact, I can’t foresee a scenario at this point where all of the 20+ apps don’t have FE-C support by the Eurobike/Interbike timeframe. There’s just no reason for them not to, especially since it opens up such a huge customer base at a lower price point than any other trainers. Now, I do expect there will probably be some growing pains over the next few months – but hopefully Tacx will iterate quickly, ensuring that by time the North American trainer season hits this fall, things are smoothed out. The more apps that sort out those issues now, the cleaner it’ll be later.
As for other trainer companies adopting the standard? Well, Elite has long-committed to it for a large chunk of their resistance-controlled trainers. They had initially said by the end of December, then January, then February – and then finally said they were pushing it till Summer in preparation for the 2015-2016 trainer season.
I’d imagine that the Tacx move will get that settled out rather quickly. In the European market the two companies compete head to head much more than in the US market.
Then you’ve got BKOOL, another mid-cost player. And also another one that’s long since promised it. In fact, BKOOL committed to it before everyone else – even demoing it years ago. Yet, they’ve since backed away from any commitments, angering numerous folks who purchased units based on those statements, in the process.
While their BKOOL apps support the FE-C control protocol, their trainers themselves do not – effectively locking you into the BKOOL software. At this point, there is little reason to buy a BKOOL trainer over a Tacx trainer. Finally, you’ve got CycleOps and Wahoo. In many ways, they already offer much of what the FE-C aimed to provide – an avenue for apps to control trainers. Both companies readily gave developers access to control their trainers – and as we saw last year, developers took advantage of that – adding support for both trainers quite widely.
So while it’d be easier for 3rd party developers if all trainers used the same protocol, I’m not sure it’s really a high priority for either company at the moment. Oh – as for trainer recommendations in general, it’s just too soon there. Most companies release trainers at Eurobike the last few days of August, so I’d really encourage folks to wait and see how thinks shake out then. If you’re Down Under though and need something more immediate – I’d focus on either the Tacx Smart series at the mid range, or the Wahoo/PowerBeam at the higher end. With that – thanks for reading! Being a Vortex owner (the non-smart version) this is a long expected move, but seeing my trainer with no possibility of update makes me think again that Tacx only cares for their current lineup. It’s tollay legit, but a trainer is not a cheap accesssory you can change every time a new feature appears.
Also Tacx Trainer Software is not the best software out there and their policy of charging for the gps addon of Google Maps is also not customer-friendly I think. I think their harware offerings are ok, but they are not a customer-oriented company rather a product-oriented one. Interesting that it’s the lack of channels that is stopped support for some of non-Smart trainers – couldn’t see anything on the Tacx forum beyond an unspecified hardware incompatibility. Seems odd at face-value though, given they can support the existing control over ANT+ plus HRM, cadence and external power-meter (is that all at them same time?). Personally, i’d swap out my HRM to free up a channel it that made a difference although from a protocol and resource viewpoint i’m sure there’s something that could be done in software anyway. It’s a start though, fair play to them. Great news, was just looking at the Tacx trainers the past few day and was holding back a little because of the closed control (a needing their app) Now they add open ANT+ Trainer Profile support making the device more attractive.
But is there an Bluetooth Smart resistance control Profile or something like that? As i read they control the unit via Bluetooth OR ANT+ but for now only the ANT+ specs are followed. When adding open Bluetooth Smart resistance control the step for connecting it to a laptop or PC would be much smaller. And buying “pro” software from them or any other company.
Sounds interesting as my ageing Tacx Flow that I use in conjunction with TrainerRoad could do with being replaced soon and having automatic resistance adjustment from TrainerRoad to my trainer would be just the ticket. Does this mean that If I were to buy a Tacx Vortex Smart or Tacx Bushido Smart that I don’t need to buy the additional Upgrade Smart software package , or do I still need this in conjunction with the trainer itself to enable communication between the trainer and a laptop?
Great move by TACX – instantly making the KICKR less attractive at it’s price point. One thing KICKR has added recently though is for the turbo to be controlled via the power from a dedicated power meter. What this means is that the Kickr will not have any power variation from say your Garmin Vectors, because it can use readings from those instead of it’s own power meter, which is spot on for consistency inside and out. Before this I often saw 20-30w difference between the two. This works with Trainer Road and the Wahoo app so far (there may be others). Is this something that the TACX trainers offer too Ray? How does the Tacx compare to the Kickr in terms of smoothness, responsiveness, and feel?
When you hit a hill on Zwift Island, does the visual on screen match the effort level change? There is a bit of a lag with the Kickr but not bad. I assume build quality still doesn’t match the Kickr?
Do you see the Kickr coming down in price with this change in competition? I got rid of my original Tacx Bushido because of the poor software and support. They had great ideas, just too many problems that they didn’t deal with well. Then they started charging for google earth integration after the fact.
Picked up a Smart Vortex just over a week ago on an Amazon Daily Deal for £160 so very happy! I have upgraded the firmware to version 3.1.7 but when using Zwift there still seems to be no resistance applied at present. I followed the instructions from the Tacx support forum which suggests it should work now before Zwift roll out another update. Zwift can see the trainer via my Suunto USB ANT+ stick and reports the Watts etc. But no resistance. Probably doing something wrong or I need to wait for the next update to Zwift. I don’t believe so.
The Tacx software is currently only working with Tacx trainers via their private channel. Even if they did switch over to using FE-C instead (logical at some point), the KICKR isn’t using FE-C. The KICKR uses something very similiar (since FE-C has some roots in what Wahoo did), but it’s not exactly the same. Once Wahoo adopts FE-C, and if Tacx also adopted FE-C within their software, it would work. Given Tacx likely would very much like to make the revenue on the software side, I’d guess at some point they’ll support it. Especially since there’s not many reasons to not buy a Tacx trainer now given they are extremely competitive price-wise.
With all the added features to trainers and related software, what do you think about creating “fake” GPS files and uploading them to Strava and the alike taking away KOMs and so on, as trainers can rarely reflect the real environment properly? I’ve seen so many KOMs taken by people on trainers in the NYC area, mostly on segments you can never achieve speeds achievable in the real world, e.g., due to road layout, etc. It’s just a bit annoying pushing yourself to your limit and then someone sitting on a trainer takes away all the hard earning rankings.
Not that they didn’t put in any effort, it’s just not comparable. Right now, it’s just ANT+ control.
So while TrainerRoad and others can pickup the generic Bluetooth Smart Power/Speed/Cadence signals, they need the ANT+ adapter to control the trainer over FE-C. I asked Tacx about Bluetooth Smart control for 3rd parties and they noted they are working through some options, specifically with Kinomap and TrainerRoad.
However, it’s still in the feasiability phase right now as they’ve gotta work through validating there is enough processing power to do all four functions concurrently (they do A-C today concurrently): A) ANT+ generic power/speed/cadence broadcast B) ANT+ FE-C broadcast/control C) Bluetooth Smart generic power/speed/cadence broadcast D) Bluetooth Smart trainer broadcast/control. TACX have only said that this will work on “Zwift, TrainerRoad, Kinomap and Bkool software”.
Will other software apps like Cycleops Virtual Training be automatically compatible (via BLE) or is there some work to be done (either via TACX themselves or Cycleops)? Ray – I’m in the market for a new trainer (I’ve been using the original Fluid for almost 10 years so its time!) and need it now (southern hemisphere). I’ve ruled out any trainers that require me to remove the back wheel so was going to just go with the Powerbeam until I saw this post. TACX now looks very attractive. Can you give me a comparison of the feel of the Powerbeam vs the Vortex (or Bushido).
PS: I see that CleverTraining won’t ship TACX internationally but other online sites (eg chainreactioncycles) will. That’s why I like the Wahoofor the reason Ek mentioned.
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Fortunately, I have a dedicated bike (or will have) this fall which will have it’s wheel removed permanently. I currently have a spin-bike, and like it a lot, but there’s no power meter option nor controller for Zwift-type functionality. It seems that if I were to design a trainer, it would be more modular where you can swap parts/techno pieces easily w/o having to buy a whole new unit. I’ll wait until Fall to see what Wahoo comes out withor just buy their current Kickr as this stuff will keep changing like all tech does.
“Oh – as for trainer recommendations in general, it’s just too soon there. I’d really encourage folks to wait and see how thinks shake out then.” Sage advice there, I’m really looking forward to the inevitable trainer showdown this fall. Ray’s 2015-2016 Winter Trainer Review will be very interesting reading without a doubt. I, for one, am hoping that this latest news really spurs Elite into action with their Real Turbo Muin. I think a viable competitor to the Kickr is in every top- end consumer’s best interest.
Hi – bit confusedIf I purchase a T2780 Bushido Smart or a T2180 Vortex Smart, is that all I need to be able to hook the trainer up with TrainerRoad on my PC? I have a Garmin Edge 500 and GSC10 speed/cadence sensor with a Garmin ANT+ dongle already. I’m happy to upgrade the firmware on the trainer with an iPhone, but I don’t really want to be doing the TrainerRoad rides/videos on an iPad.I can’t figure out from all the info i’m reading if I still need to purchase the Upgrade Smart package or not? I think Bart touched on this further up the chain as well. Any help/advise much appreciated!! I’ve been using TR on a Kinetic trainer with their inRide power “meter”, and it’s been great.
But it does mean that hitting your power targets depends on you maintaining focus and effort. In a given gear, there is a specific cadence required to hit your power target — if you back off that cadence, your power output declines. With a “smart” trainer, the trainer’s resistance can be continuously controlled via the software to increase resistance if your cadence declines, or decrease resistance if your cadence increases, all resulting in hitting your power targets. Have a look at the TR workout library and see the results of various riders’ attempts — you can spot the ones on smart trainers right away as the power levels are precise and consistent. Is this an advantage? With a Kinetic, I find sometimes my target power can be hit only at, say, 87 rpm in one gear but if I shift to the next larger cog the required cadence is 95 rpm.
In this scenario, there’s no way to hit the target power at a cadence somewhere in between (like 92 rpm). On a smart trainer, you forget about shifting gears and just pedal at 92 rpm — the trainer will adjust the resistance to hit the power target at that cadence. I do see a potential drawback, though, in that hitting your target power would appear to require less focus with a smart trainer. Which might mean you don’t train the mental focus necessary to sustain a high level of intensity out on the road. I’m speculating here, since I haven’t used a smart trainer with TR. If I were getting a new trainer, I’d look at the Tacx.
(Or, more likely, I’d wait and see if this announcement shakes up the smart trainer landscape a bit more, especially since this is the “off season” for much indoor training, at least for me, and I can easily wait a few months). But since I’m happy with my current setup, I don’t see the incremental advantage being worth ditching my existing setup and springing for a new one. From Tacx’s website: The wireless Bushido has a powerful braking system which offers a maximum resistance of 1400 Watt. The system, fully incorporated in the housing, consists of a motor brake and a 2 kg software-simulated flywheel. This helps you to obtain a supple pedal stroke on steep climbs.
The handlebar computer shows, through its graphical display, all the necessary training information, such as power output, heart rate, cadence, speed and time. Still like the wheel-off approach vs on. Ray, Have you spent much time with InsideRide’s new ANT+/BLE control add-on for their rollers? It seems that those, paired with TrainerRoad (or Zwift for more fun/entertainment), would be the ultimate setup for training I’ve seen you mention them and the aforementioned add-on, but I haven’t really seen you say what you thought of the setup thus far. I’m really torn between just getting a Wahoo Kickr, or waiting for the all of the kinks to get worked out on the InsideRide ANT+/BLE control unit (and it actually coming to market) and buying that instead. What do you think?
I made my first experiments with my now new Bushido Smart (with ANT+ FE-C firmware 3.1.7 uploaded) and TrainerRoad (which updated itself recently) both on iPad and PC. Since I am recovering from an injury (hence have lots of time to tinker) I was training in the low 150W region and came under the impression, that the power control on the Bushido Smart with TR is a bit “laggy” and not that precise. I looked at workouts on TR others did with the KICKR and that one seems to have a “tight” control of the power. Maybe it’s because of the low power regime I was training in. Anyone with similar/different experiences out there? When I get back to Europe in the morning I’ll try and poke them a bit more.
The hardware is 110% capable of it, as I’ve ridden it two years in a row with the beta variants of the FE-C (ANT+ Trainer Profile) on it. Heck, I was even the poor sucker that got volunteered to go up on stage during the ANT+ Symposium and be an independent rider on it.
Obviously again, that was beta, but still – they were the first company to demonstrate it two years ago. I suspect the real reason that they don’t want to open it up is that the likely just break even on their trainer itself, and instead make their money via the software subscription services. Hi Ray, Just had to sell my spin bike as downsizing so will now be relying on a trainer for my indoor cycle efforts. Have to share with my partner whose bike is 9 speed rear vs my 11 so I presume the kickr would be a hassle having to swap cassettes?
This leaves me looking at the cyclops powersync and the Tacx vortex smart. Given the vortex smart seems to be available for £250 vs £500 for the cyclops, is there an argument that could justify the powersync? Is the power measurement more accurate?
Many thanks for your help! Just wanted to give people a headsup, esp.
People buying it form countries where there are no Tacx distributors, to be a little wary of reliability. I bought a Vortex Smart just last week based on this post, and after two rides, it’s now refusing to turn on. Tacx support says that its likely that the motor unit is defective but man, what a blow to have it shipped halfway across the world and have it last only a week. Now, the long process of figuring out who pays for having to ship it back halfway across the world and all the lost money in customs! I will not speak on Zwift’s behalf but this is how we do it in our software: 1) We feed road grade whatever that might be to a trainer and let the trainer handle it any way they like.
We however ignore speed reported by trainer and calculate the speed in our software based on power reported by the trainer, current road grade, cyclist’s weight etc. This way we have consistency across various trainers. 2) Some trainers are actually capable of simulating very steep inclines and your knees might not thank you if your bike is not equipped with proper gearing.
For situations like this we let user to decide and set in options how to scale road grades. Again the speed is calculated as in case 1 so everything is still consistent. I think Zwift is doing something similar. Just got my vortex smart, tried with Zwift but Zwift didn’t like my ANT+ usb dongle.
It seems to work well with the very basic TacX app, and paired after a few tries with my 810. The 810 file on strava looks awesome and will totally change my workouts. The fact that it was 251 EUR was a huge win for me too! (just needed to change plugs from EUR to US/CAN style), had one lying around that fit. 350$ CAD compared to 700$ CAD + tax locally was awesome. My stages just went in for warranty replacement, but when it comes back I will compare numbers between the Vortex and the Stages.
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Thanks for the news, Sad to see they abandoned the non smart trainers in this update. I had been waiting for a long time to them to finally do this on the non-smart Vortex trainer, ad of late its only been used as a glorified trainer with no power numbers etc, have to use my power hub to get numbers. I do not like Tacx support and their what seems to be snoody mentality when it comes to making trainers “OPEN” I will keep using my Kurts. Best bang for the buck, now if only Kurt would make the in-ride on Ant+ lol. I had similar and probably worse variation between kickr and my vectors.
The solution was an update to the trainer road I use which allows you to control the trainer power from the other power meter, so my vector power is used to control the kickr. Other software has this option too now (eg wahoo fitness) My gut feeling is that their are variances from temperature and calibration that can affect the absolute reading in any power meter, and it is the relative changes over time that are most valuable for training. Is that with the Vortex or Bushido? This is the email I received from Tacx last week regarding my big discrepancy (15%) between the vortex and other PM’s: ” Indeed, there is some difference related to trainers and different powermeters However, in some cases the Vortex power unit has largers difference then in some cases are allowed. We have done some checks and preparing a new update that is coming soon.
If you have Tacx Trainer software 4 and an ANT+ dongle then this update can also be done manual”. Hi DCRainmaker, Question, I just bought the Bushido Smart (updated already to newest software version for FE-C), and my experiences in combination with Suunto ministick and TrainerRoad are that the signal is very weak and leads to a lot of signal drops or spikes. I need to use a usb extended cable to get in closer than 15 cm to get “OK” signal. Does this sounds familiar to anybody? I’ve got no problem with my Garmin ant+ GSC-10, that picks up the signal from a few meters. Tacx says that the Suunto isn’t strong enough and they advise to use the T2028 dongle from Tacx.
To me it sounds more like a hardware/signal issue from the Bushido, but they don’t have more reported issues on that part. Regards and love you site! I have had some problems with my Vortex smart compared to my Garmin Vector and Powertap. It seems like there is something strange with the cadence and power when using ANT FE-C.
The only cadence that would work regards to power was between 50 and 60. Otherwise there was something wrong and Trainerroad together with the Vortex didn´t applied enough power. The support was very good but they recommended to not use the ANT FE-C at the moment and instead use the pwoermeter as input. They said it would ANT FE-C and powermatching etc would be better in the new desktop version. I recently bought the Elite Real Axiom wired version with the thought that I would upgrade to a different software, since I could get it for $510. However, I found the wired software to be terrible and make the unit nearly useless since I could not change to a different software due to the wired version being a closed protocol.
I am planning to send this unit back and buy something different. Would you recommend the TACX Vortex as a suitable unit? Also, what software would you recommend. I really wanted to download routes I have ridden from Garmin and re-ride them to improve my ability to get better. I also wanted to be able to either see the route in the map view or the satellite view as I rode it along with the elevation map. All suggestions would be appreciated. I’ve now got my Vortex Smart on order after rturning the Satori Ricky’s advice.
Will, if I’ve understood your question, the T2990 upgrade allows you to connect your Smart trainer to a computer and to use the Tacx Advanced software. For the Vortex this means that the computer reads the performance data and therefore automatically regulates the resistance of the trainer. As I understand it, with the latest firmware update you don’t need the T2990 to control your Vortex trainer in Zwift.
Now you just need an ANT+ dongle in your laptop and perhaps a USB extension lead to make sure the ANT+ is near your trainer/rear of your bike. Others may be able to offer more detailed advice as the above is my understanding from reading up on sites like this as my machine is still “in transit”. Thanks for all the great reviews. It’s my go to spot for trusted and thorough review.
I suggest garmin, bushido et all pay you for clicks like pay per click google. Re: Bushido Smart Is there a minimum ipad generation I need. Tried my older ipad and it won’t connect. I don’t mind a new ipdad, just need to know what gen works. On zwift with zwift controlled resistance, the wattage require to spin is incredible – the watts shown definitely don’t match the effort I’m putting into it.
I couldn’t get out of the small ring. I had the same problem. Here is the response from TR customer support.
Hey Kostas, Thanks for contacting us! The first thing to note is that you’re using PowerMatch which uses the wattage coming from your power meter to control the Vortex’s resistance. Due to the instantaneous measurements coming from your powermeter, we’ve found that Vortex can sometimes get confused and set the wrong resistance. To fix this we suggest using a constant wattage offset which should help with some of these erroneous resistance changes.
You can figure out what the offset should be by comparing each device’s power readings under the Devices tab and finding the difference. Once you do this you can set a constant offset under the Profile tab in the app.
You can read all about PowerMatch and how to set up your trainer here The next step requires the Tacx Utility App on your phone. First, you’ll want to make sure the Vortex’s firmware is updated. You can see how to do this here Second, you’ll want to use the Tacx Utility App to calibrate the Vortex before each workout. At the moment, there are some issues with calibrating using the TrainerRoad app, but the Tacx app is working correctly.
Once you calibrate using the Tacx app it will store the settings internally and transfer them to TrainerRoad once it’s paired. I hope this helps and if you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask. Dayton Adams Customer Support.
I’m going to ask a really stupid question or two. Why do I need to change/upgrade my i-genius trainer when the TACX software controlled it fine?They (TACX) are saying that not enough ANT channels are available on the old chip but why does it need them when TACX’s own software managed to control the device perfectly? If it’s a channel issue why can’t a firmware update be used to re-map the channels to the most common ones used.
Or is it a software issue. Please don’t be too sarcastic with any replies this is a question I have tried to find answers to but so far have failed. Maybe the more knowledgeable can explain it to me. Before I stupid up more money on upgrading a motor Thanks in anticipation.