Sometimes I’ve had catastrophic results while using the Xert Android app (on a Samsung Galaxy Note 4) to control my Tacx Neo Smart in ANT+ FE-C mode with power match against my Verve InfoCrank Classic power meter, set up according to http://baronbiosys.com/faq-items/setting-up-your-smart-trainer-with-xert-mobile/ . I’m not sure, but it feels as if long periods of static resistance will make the app loose its concentration, as if it gets bored or something…
Yesterday I did a recovery/endurance workout where I was targeting 195 W for the first hour, then two 2 minute efforts in zone 4 twenty minutes apart and then back to 195 W again. It was spot on for the first 20 minutes, when I decided to gear up to the large chain ring and lost some power while revving up again. After that it was constantly undershooting power, having me output about 180-185 W instead of my target of 195 W. It ought to aim for 200 W for a while in order to get me back on target.
But then after an hour, I was about to do my 2 minute effort and that’s when it really messed up. It beeped saying it wa s time to do an interval, but kept me riding at 180-185 W! Nothing happened. I stopped pedaling, ended the activity, closed the Xert service, restarted the app, opened and restarted the workout, skipped the first hour of the workout and got back into the 2 minute effort and… nothing! No difference. So then I forced the power up by pedaling like crazy for a while, but it forced me back down until gradually increasing the power and after about a minute it felt like the resistance was about right. At the end of the 2 minute effort, it beeped and resistance dropped immediately to 195 W and kept me there for the next period of about 20 minutes. Spot on, as I recall. Then the second 2 minute effort came up and… nothing! No difference, no reaction. I did the same thing, I pedaled like crazy and it forced me back down, but after a while realized that it was way off and gradually and slowly increased the resistance for about a minute. At the end of the 2 minute effort, it immediately adjusted resistance to 195 W again…
This is not good, you need to have a look at this! Do you have some kind of drift or does the software lock up in some kind of loop and is unable to adjust resistance?