Specialized

Don’t get me wrong I love the app once you get the hang of how to set it up it is quite amazing giving you a lot of great info about your ride BUT why the had to remove the ability to set basically limitless presets for personalizing the power and ease (formerly support) setting is totally beyond me I sure hope they bring that back it was so nice to be able to quickly set up and remember many different setting instead of the current, just three, to me that’s a real bummer. They appear to have played with the smart ride mode in relation to heart rate settings as well. personally I liked the two different slide setting you could use to set up the power and support settings in the previous iteration of the specialized app called Mission Control. when you don’t have steady hand like me I could quickly and easily set each level to right where I wanted it with individual slider controls doing both things at once getting both setting to go and stop right where I want them is way more challenging then before but I guess young kids who grew up playing video games feel right at home with this set up. Finally just wish they would give us the final consumer the choice of which app they wanted to use !!! All in all the newer app is still pretty awesome

This is a pretty easy to use app. It’s made by to be started before your ride, twiddled with occasionally to tune your motor settings, then looked at afterwards. It’s great for that. Correction: I had reported I found it not very useful for your ride. It’s not great for monitoring any of the things you can look at (and there’s much inside to look at). This is because there’s no way to prevent screen lock and so every time you look at the road, it locks you out. The developer responded (below, I hope) explaining how to get to the menu to make the screen lock. I haven’t tried it yet in that mode. I wish it had features to make it more like a trip computer like Shimano does. For example, the Shimano looked more like a trip computer and less like an app with numbers. It also showed a cool speedometer displaying how much power, max speed and such all in one cool integrated graphic.

A few issues: 1. Map is too large making it difficult to read ride data. How about options to hide the map and increase text font size. 2. With units set to imperial, data shows imperial in the app but data on bike shows metric. 3. Option to change the clock from 24 hour display to 12 hours. Is this related to #2? 4. A toggle to turn on/off light. 5. Alarm volume is laughably low, almost inaudible. Reminds me of the extremely low volume of the tones you hear when taking a hearing test. I just wonder if a thief would even hear it. Certainly no one nearby would. Why bother? In response to your questions, yes the light is reference to item #4. I ride a Turbo Vado SL 5.0 EQ UPDATE: I’ve resolved items 2 & 3 on my list. Took my bike to a Specialized dealer. The mechanic showed me the settings menu on the TCU on the bike by press both the + and - buttons at same time on the power assist remote on the handlebars. Use the + - buttons to scroll up and down and the top and bottom buttons to set new settings which include Units, Date/Time, Sensors, Altitude and Regulatory. Hope this helps someone out. I did not see this information in the manual although the mechanic said it was there. ANOTHER QUESTION: If using a heart rate monitor, will the Specialized app display live heart rate during a ride?