ErgData +4

Love what Concept2 did with the data! Lots of data great to see heart rate, Watts, Power with great detail, and be able to make workouts from the app - great job! 5/5 data provided

Connecting to the erg -3/5 some PM5s are weird when trying to connect to the app, and there isn't a straightforward way to check if the firmware is updated or not, would be great as connection issues for some rowers happen.

Heart rate - if you are not using a chest strap don’t bother looking at the heart rate. The wrist heart rate is awful - not a concept2 problem it's the watch. 5/5

Team, Individuals, and social platform for the erg community. I love the real-time row with people, gives off the Zwift-style ride with anyone's feel, and that's where concept2 stopped. I can't find my teammates if they didn't join a team or affiliation (this can only really be done on the web as it's a bit tricky on the app at least for my master rowers). Wish there was a way to find your rowing friends! It would be great to be able to do what Stava did and provide “kudo” or likes to people's workouts, making the results feel better than they do on your body if you have some friends boosting you up for your efforts! 2/5

I'd love to see additional data screens like a better power curve screen and possibly use Apple iPhone sensors to use more force analysis when using slides.

Andre
Pittsburgh Rowing Club Assistant Coach

With the Apple Watch integration to ErgData I have been pretty happy, but after a workout is completed I noticed my Move ring jump suddenly and thought there might be a duplication of calories. In fact, I was almost certain this was happening because I saw the watch collecting move data during the workout, and ErgData only posting calories to Apple Health (in 5 minute intervals) only AFTER the workout is completed.

However, I can confirm that there is no duplication of calories. It appears like there is but Apple prioritizes the calories and only adds in the more accurate total calories that ErgData provides. In fact, if you look at your move Calories before the workout starts, and then after, it closely matches the calories that ErgData calculated. PM5 calculates calories more accurately.

The problem that I have is that while Health knows that the calories shouldn't be double counted, ErgData only adds this calculation after the workout ends. I would prefer that ErgData added the Active Calories to Health during the workout so that you can look at your Move ring while working out and see how far you actually are to your goal.

I’ve updated everything and restarted everything, and still ErgData will not save my workout data. Everything shows properly at the end of my workout. When I press the “End Workout and View Logbook” button, the PM5 disconnects, and the ErgData app puts up the spinning thing. When that stops spinning, the app reappears, but none of the buttons work. I can swipe between screens, but that zeros all my data. Nothing gets saved to the log. I have to manually enter my workout data, which lacks all the graphed data my phone collected during the workout. The app has worked fine for months. Something between iOS 16 and whatever updates have been done to ErgData is broken when it comes to saving the workout data. It also used to save data to the Health App. That is also not working any longer despite all the boxes showing that it should be connected. Pleas fix this or tell me what I need to do to resolve it. I want my data saved.