Feature Request: Sensors linked to Bike Profile
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I have a couple bikes I use with my Karoo 2, a mountain bike and a road bike. Each bike has it's own cadence and speed sensor.
It would be awesome if I could link the sensors with the appropriate bike profile.
Then Karoo 2 could automatically sense which bike I was using and automatically use it for the current ride.
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Official comment
Hi All,
This is to keep you informed that you can now associate your sensors to individual profiles, so Karoo only searches for the right sensors, every ride. This is especially helpful if you have multiple bikes with lots of different sensors. This is optional, though, and if you don’t think you’ll benefit from this level of configuration, don’t worry – you can still continue using Karoo exactly as you always have.
Thank you!
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Agree.
I use several bikes and a trainer.
Sensors load as they present, and I don't know if the searching for sensors not used consumes battery, especially since some sensors have not been cleared from the list after they were retired for the session. Keeping track of sensors , especially since they may rename themselves or get renamed when reloaded, IS A BIG DEAL.
This is a Big issue in that the trainer requires a lot of sensor retirement ESPECIALLY the onboard GPS, which overides speed and distance tracking from other sensors.
Also an issue as Sensor Precedence is a big deal , such that profile linked sensors and precedence would be a big help.
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+1 to multiple bikes and a trainer. I don't know how it works, but presumably the sensor search never stops, even though it is paired with the active sensors? Surely this adds to battery drain?
Having sensors and profiles linked means when you load that profile, it would only search for those sensors connected to that profile.
If you ever need to add or switch sensors, you could obviously adjust that in the sensor page.
Right now I am disabling manually all the sensors that I won't be using for that ride, but is seems a band aid fix for something that could be a lot more streamlined by the Karoo.
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Commenting for visibility, priority—
Selecting which sensors should be active per profile would be a huge improvement for 2 points: so that we don't have to manually disable/enable GPS for indoor/outdoor rides, and so the K2 isn't searching for sensors that aren't there throughout a ride on a different bike.
Currently when switching between indoor and outdoor rides, instead of 1 tap to choose a profile and start a ride, it takes 7 extra taps to go through the Apps screen > Sensors > GPS > Disable > Back > Back > Back before I'm at the Profile cards again to start a ride.
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Just adding more support for this feature request. This would be a great addition. I have ANT+ lights on my road bike, it would be great to only have them associated with my road bike profile so they don't also turn on when I go out for a mountain bike ride (right now they turn on when I start any ride from my garage).
Thanks!
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