Wahoo ELEMNT (Roam and Bolt v2) on Specialized e-bikes (Garmin Edge compared)

[Stefan Mikes]

Thanks, I did pay for Blevo and guess that's the way for non mastermind Levos. A bit overwhelming to setup but I'll dig a little deeper. Thanks for the info

bob

BLEvo is just a miraculous app for non-MasterMind e-bikes. (It's a pity Specialized has encrypted the MasterMind Bluetooth channel, rendering BLEvo useless there).
Any questions? Please ask. I will be delighted to be of help!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Here's my current setup.

At this moment, the Remote Control (O-Synce) and HR monitor are not connected, and the ride has not started yet, hence some empty data fields.

 

[steelgtr]

Here's my current setup.
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At this moment, the Remote Control (O-Synce) and HR monitor are not connected, and the ride has not started yet, hence some empty data fields.

Thank you! Can you help me get my display to look like that? (I'm android if it matters) I have too many fields (small) showing.

thx

bob

ps: it did show range!!

 

[dynamic]

"Break a thermometer, you will have no fever"

*snickers* Yeah. Garmin has been working fine since that input went away. No issues. Knowing what I know now, I would just disconnect the e-bike connection if using garmin with it. Crazy how much better behaved garmin is now.

 

[steelgtr]

*snickers* Yeah. Garmin has been working fine since that input went away. No issues. Knowing what I know now, I would just disconnect the e-bike connection if using garmin with it. Crazy how much better behaved garmin is now.

Sorry, since what happened?

 

[dynamic]

Sorry, since what happened?

I got a bike with no e-bike protocol. Nearly all the garmin stupidity stopped. It used to interrupt my ride every 30 seconds with messages you must dismiss. And would force re-navigate stuff. It was crazy.

Garmin 1040 solar was pleasant on todays ride. Very nice.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Garmin or Wahoo work for anybody else except you, Dynamic

 

[Allan47.7339]

The Garmin 1040 is very new with a lot of new features. I use it for navigation on group rides and there are some navigation settings you have to change just as on the 1030's. I have the navigation reroute functions set to off or ask. Otherwise any disruption in the GPS it would reroute. Default is auto. The ebike warning that the route is too long seems to be triggered by temporary loss of gps signal due to underpasses or other obstructions. The recent update seems to allow the notification to be dismissed. I would prefer to be able to turn that feature off but that is something for the Garmin forum. I am sure Wahoo and Hammerhead are working on their new features to be added too.

 

[dynamic]

The ebike warning that the route is too long seems to be triggered by temporary loss of gps signal due to underpasses or other obstructions.

Or if you go off the route onto a road it doesn’t know and can’t re-route (or trail). Or if your planned route from say RWGPS isn’t exactly where the actual route is. Until ebike went away garmin spent 90% of the time with that stupid message on the screen. There is a plethora of other bugs I could ignore.

Wahoo is way better in this aspect. But it’s other stuff is a bit weak. Hill climbing was meh (I got the new version for a short bit), no light network, it’s a bit goofy in ux (you do get used to this). But if I wanted to track my rides and didn’t care about features, wahoo wins easily.

If the features you want actually work on the garmin, get that.

My 2 cents.