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If enabling the Galaxy watch as a HRM, then please also support the Galaxy ring. ErgData should also support syncing with Google health connect, because Google Fit is end-of-life. AFAIK Galaxy ring can broadcast HR data. Have you TRIED connecting your ring to your PM5 ? Gogole's AI says these are t...

The way to get HR data into Concept2 is to have the heart rate monitor broadcast heart rate data. Samsung Galaxy watches don't natively broadcast HR data. Makes it hard to capture it. But there are apps you can install on your galaxy that will get it to broadcast HR data, for example 4 apps are give...

this 6 month old thread says C2 is working on it. no clue if it's accurate. https://www.reddit.com/r/concept2/comments/1huyo5y/ergdata_and_google_fit/ "I have heard back from C2 support, they say they are working on it and that Google Health (I assume Health Connect) will be coming in a future updat...

At rest when the flywheel spins down power comes from the battery (vs. the generator during work pieces). Batteries run at lower voltage as they hit end of life. Does the PM5 turn on when you hit a button, or do you need to row a few strokes? In history does the pm5 have the correct day/time ? If yo...

I have a Garmin FR265, and I have to manually start an indoor rowing activity, while also tracking on ergdata, to get two sessions in Garmin Connect. If I don't start or save the session on my watch, I only get the ergdata session. Note that when I do track both ways, only the ergdata session track...

except when it is connected to the PM5. Your watch has to do a lot of extra processing when using network/bluetooth/ant+. The battery life goes down reflecting the extra processing. Maybe this extra processing is limiting the watch's resources available to process the HR signal. Your watch will rec...

... is 15-60 seconds into rowing, the heart rate starts to drop. For example, starts at 50-60 resting HR, starts to climb with activity to ~80-100 bpm, then drops to 50s-60s and bounces around there. The PM5 display, the iPhone display via ErgData, and the Garmin all show the same inaccurate number...

Yeah, but do they mean Bluetooth FTMS here, or simply a new/different protocol? Don't know, but is a $600-$1000 garmin fenrix sports watch that cannot control fitness equipment viable? I was unpleasantly surprised that my $400 watch can't even extract cycling power data from the BTLE FTMS cycles do...

Please note that FTMS is an absolutely horrible protocol for rowing. It is actually a step backward compared to ANT+ for data richness. In essence it is just a distance and speed report every 1 sec. The PM5 data is much much richer and also event-driven (i.e. report on the end of the drive and reco...

Garmin hasn't made any announcement off this kind, at all. Not even a hint in the ANT+ phase-out press release. <warning, this is the google AI summary of Garmin announcements. It may be incorrect. I didn't cross check because it matched what I previously read. Emphasis is mine.> Garmin announced A...

...Any idea whether I should choose Other activity on my GFR45? I'm going to see today what data is exportable from SkillRow and from the watch. You may be able to download "rowing" and "indoor rowing" as an activities on your FR 45. It was preloaded on my garmin FR 265. The app that loads activiti...

No. Pace and Calories both include a time component. Agree. Pace is non-linear with power, so average pace does not tell you how much work was done. Agree. Calories, as I've noted, give you a bonus of 150 Cal/Hr just for time spent on the machine. So neither pace nor Calories is proportional to the...

And that's the fallacy. Watts and splits show you exactly what power is put into the machine. A physical measurement. Measured rotations give you Computed Watts, Split and Calories. All are equally good measures of the output of your rowing on the flywheel, not what is put into the machine. One is ...

This calorie stuff is the most useless metric on any erg. perhaps, but if watts and splits are OK then Calories are OK. There's a simple transform on watts to get Calories. ** Any insight you get from improving your watts can also be obtained by looking at changes in reported calories. ============...

It's clearly wrong. Not sure if it's "uninstall ergdata, reinstall" or if it's "reset pm5" or "log had a bad day" Best is to email concept2 at info@concept2.com give snapshots, firmware version, ergdata version, say if it still happens or if it was only once. Aside: your PM5 has a history function t...