Power Meters / Powermeters (SRM, Powertap, Quarq, Ergomo, Vector, Stages, power2max, P2M, 4iii, InPower, Cinch)

Is it an ant only end cap, or ble too? Does your phone do ant?

The wahoo utility is pretty good on Android, not sure if you can calibrate via that?

End cap does ble and ant+
Powertap app is shit.

If trainer road does calibration I might sort there.

Shouldn't it auto-calibrate anyway?

I would have thought so.
But like I say, I plugged it in. Put it on the turbo. Tightened the wheel up. Spun the pedals once and zwift thought I was doing 600 w.

And then when I use the app from powertap I get similar.

Have you tried freewheeling for a while and then trying again? Should make the hub auto-calibrate. Alternatively, have you been irradiated by gamma rays or been bitten by a radioactive spider recently?

wifi-enabled ovens

Pedal for a bit then back pedal. The old Powertaps used to autocalibrate when you coasted or back-pedaled, I can't remember which, think it was just coasting.

I have since learnt it does voice commands. HA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qnd-hdmgfk

My first idea was to change “hey google” to “hello Dave” or “hey HAL”

That would be cool. I would definitely do that... if I allowed such megacorp spy tech into my house ;)

Glad my tale of woe got you a fandangled new cooker. Thanks @Howard for the advice and good luck @hippy with the paperweight.

So, an update on Quarq. My mild trolling of their IG accounts got me blocked from the sramroad account but kept my trolling to private messages on the quarq account. Anyway, seemed to work as I got an email from their head of customer service asking if she could call me. Today I got a call from Indiana from said head of customer support, Jeny.

She was extremely nice, explained that Alex who had been emailing me had been applying the rules a little too strictly and that they'd taken the opportunity to provide him with some "additional learning". I said I didn't mean to land him in trouble but I was quite surprised by his short and uninformative responses.

She's offered to replace it foc despite being out of warranty. Which is a nice gesture. But I had originally hoped there might be a reduced price replacement scheme for situations like this, so the offer of a foc replacement has caught me a little off guard and TBH and my weird self imposed ethics say not to take up the offer (as I can live without power measurement, there are bigger things to worry about in the world at the moment). But credit where credit is due to Jeny and I felt it only right to post the outcome here. Public praise to balance the public moaning.

my weird self imposed ethics say not to take up the offer

Impose different ethics on yourself; to refuse a gift is an insult to the giver 🙂

Yeah just accept it

I was given free choice on the AEG website, obviously chose the top of the line mental oven. Felt a little guilty for ten mins then reminded myself that they offered it willingly.

Take the PM!

That's not just weird, that's positively perverse. You complained that they wouldn't solve the problem, they offer to solve the problem, you turn them down. Weird doesn't cover that.

How much do you want for it? 😁

Accept it and make a donation to the charity of your choice for what you feel would be a reasonable amount?

Trade it for an oven?

Accept it and give it to me as punishment for being such a naughty boy. Karma balance restored.

Thanks for all the replies.

@mdcc_tester wouldn't want to offend anyone 😉

@danstuff not sure why really. I honestly wasn't angling for a freebie, I'm all about "treat others as you wish to be treated". I thought a bit more engagement from them and maybe a subsidised replacement would be "fair" in the circumstances. But I like @Dammit 's idea of donating to charity to offset things a bit. Maybe there's a charity for harassed social media managers somewhere?

I'll sleep on it and decide whether to accept it or give it to @hippy as a penance. 😁

I mean, obviously hand it over to me but if you're seriously looking to assuage some guilt, donate to my arse repair fund. Nope, sorry, apparently it's actually 'Doctors Without Borders' and that name is not a euphemism for people willing to repair my gooch:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/345682/?offset=25#comment15255491

Your arse has no borders?

Doctors be like... "I ain't going there! You can't make me go there!"