Any word yet on an eta for Specialized eBike integration?
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It would be really great to see my remaining battery (both main and auxillary) as well as power level selected. I can get this information from Wahoo Roam, how soon will Karoo2 have it?
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Received this from support:
I agree this would be a valuable feature for us to add! That being said, it’s not on our immediate product roadmap due to competing priorities. I have added your request to the Product team's priority bucket & have added your vote for this feature request. We do expect to see this enhancement somewhere down the line but I cannot yet put a date to this.
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I would agree that it would be nice to have this info on a K2 screen but it’s not critical. On the CREO you see the bars for balloter and the power level in play, not sure what else you need to see. In ECO mode I get about 12-15 miles per bar on most rides with climbing. The TCU shows the power levels clearly. Also if you are like me I have my iPhone mounted just below the K2 and I can look at mission control that shows all this info and more.
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I have since purchased a Garmin Edge 1030 plus, which is far superior to the Karoo2 - it had everything out of the box that I wanted and needed, and is a lot more reliable than the K2.
@Gerry Stephenson - it looks like using a mobile phone and calculating bars is a good solution for you, however this falls far short of what I'm looking for in a device. I certainly don't want to rely on my mobile phone on a long bike route - battery has died enough times to convince me that I need a dedicated device that I can rely on for this information - the Garmin will go for 24 hours if pushed (i.e. I forget to charge it) - my mobile doesn't touch that. Every bit of data that comes from that eBike should be available on the K2 for whatever the user chooses to use it for - it is kind of ridiculous that it isn't there. And I haven't had to use Mission Control at all since I started using the Garmin, but had it on for every ride with K2, for what it's worth.
There are other issues that became less than adequate with the K2 - it lost my SRAM eTAP connection many times during rides, as well as not having the ability to switch my front light and rear light on and off consistently. The K2 also regularly stops recording ride information and requires user intervention - haven't had this kind of dropout yet with the Garmin. I also had the dreaded black screen of death once - took me a full recharge to bring back my info - and the prominent forum posts were saying I would need to reset everything - luckily this wasn't necessary.
The worst part is that every software update made some of these issues worse, not better. When I first got the K2, it wasn't dropping out nearly as much.
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@GarryGaber I like the detail in your post and for the most part I agree. However your comment "it looks like using a mobile phone and calculating bars is a good solution for you” is not what I do. I use the battery bars on the CREO so I know how much bater I have used. After riding this bike for about 14 months now I can gauge battery use and how far I can go. I don't use my iPhone for any of this. I used to have an Edge 530 that did bring up all of the e-bike info like the K2 SHOULD DO. the K2 does provide the critical info such as speed, cadence and power that everyone uses for their rides (I assume) just like a Garmin or Wahoo unit. I have not had any of the other issues you have had with the K2 so there is that. Glad the Garmin Edge 1030 is doing everything you need. Enjoy every ride, because between the wheels is where we all love to be.
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