If you thing that Zwifting is a bit gimmicky then you may be surprised to know that the use of cycling apps and smart cycling trainers have become a sport unto themselves with sponsored virtual races and even world championships.
Cable and moved Mio Link to bluetooth connection, which still had dropouts, but then moved sensor to outside of my forearm directly towards ATV and got mostly good results but reading one or two bpm higher than a chest strap.
You can find a list of those capabilities and resolutions online if you're interested in all the details.
The Apple TV version also loses the shading in the game, so it's a trimmed down Zwift visual world to reduce the demands on the hardware.
Do remember that most power meters transmit cadence, and more smart trainers transmit speed and some cadence too.
But if you are an Apple Tv user and now if you want to download the Xfinity beta stream app on Apple TV, then we can also guide you with few steps to do so.
Once both the Apple TV and your Flatscreen are setup, the next step is to download the Zwift App for Apple TV.
Download Zwift to your supported device, then pair up your Bluetooth enabled bike trainer, cycling power meter, footpod, or supported treadmill and get going.
And here's where there's an important catch: Apple TV only supports two concurrent Bluetooth Smart sensors.
Flux, and when I use the Stages for power and cadence and the Flux for controllable get all sorts of weird crap going on, like being in almost my highest gear but cranking out 230 watts or so, going 30 mph?
I'll soon replace that TV with a 4K variant and the cost difference was minor to get the 4K version of Apple TV now.
And of course the resistance is reduced when a decline is encountered, this is where the high end smart trainers excel with their flywheel effect which simulates freewheeling just as you would on the road.
It's easy to get, you may already have everything you need and it can cost, next to nothing to set up to thousands for the full immersive experience.
Zwift drops out at the same point in a course every time (I did a 10 lap circuit and found it dropped at the same points each lap).
However, whilst it's possible that some of those other companies will look seriously at releasing Apple TV apps too, Trainerroad have told me that Apple TV is not on their product roadmap right now.
