Please help me understand intervals on a karoo3

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I currently use Xert on my karoo3 with the hammerhead extension. When I assign a workout to my calendar and click “send to xert EBC”, it doesn’t seem to change my interval workouts on my karoo. I feel like when I use Xert on Karoo, it defaults to magic buckets, and keeps adjusting my workout on the fly.

Is there a way to just follow a predefined interval in Xert?

Today, I generated a workout on my calendar with the magic bucket autogen feature.

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When I sent this workout to Xert EBC, and opened it up my karoo3, it just took me to magic buckets. I can start the first interval at the prescribed power, but as soon as my power drops (due to cornering, road etc), it resets my interval and starts counting the recovery interval. Then I lose track of how long I spent in this interval (since it reset to 0). This is really annoying…I ended up taking out my phone to read over the workouts, went back to my default lap screen on my karoo 3, and used the lap features there.

luckily this is fairly straight forward workout to memorize. For something with a bit more variety for example below, how would you go about doing it outdoors with Xert?

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See #3 here (hamburger menu to select a workout) – Xert and Hammerhead – Xert

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Outdoors it’s much easier to use Magic Buckets to achieve the goal for the day or do you have routes that support executing a rigidly structured workout?.

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I have routes that allow me to complete more rigid intervals. Long gradual climbs that I can go up for a while and come back down during rest intervals.

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Hm, I just tried that and I end up “enable your data connection to see workouts”. Any idea what that might be referring to?

my xert is connected to hammerhead via hammerhead’s website. Xert understands that that is interval or endurance day, so it must be connected.

But I don’t see any workouts due to that message

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More details might be needed.. Are you launching the Xert EBC app after starting a ride using your Karoo ride profile? Or are you directly opening Xert EBC from the extensions menu and starting your activity from there?

I’ll dig out my K2 and do some more testing to provide a better answer.

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hi Scott!

I’m starting a ride first, then tapping on the “MPA” field to bring up Xert EBC. Then I go to hamburger menu within Xert and then “workouts” from there.

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Update! Here’s a workflow that should solve this for you:

The key is to load/sync the workout in the EBC app while you still have a network connection, before starting your ride.

Here are the steps that worked for me:

  1. Turn on your Karoo with Wi-Fi/network enabled
  2. Open the Xert EBC app from the Extensions menu
  3. Go to Activities → Workouts and confirm your workout is listed at the top
  4. Exit the EBC app
  5. Start your ride from your Karoo profile (Wi-Fi will turn off automatically)
  6. Tap the MPA or XSS data field to relaunch EBC
  7. Open the menu (☰) → Workout — your workout should still be there and ready to start

That’s how it worked for me when I tested it :+1:

Note: You won’t hear interval notification sounds from EBC on Karoo — we don’t currently have access to the device speakers.

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thank you!! that did the trick!

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