Originally Posted by
njkayaker
As I said earlier, the sensor ony transmit (they don't recieve). There is nothing useful they can receive.
The sensors have two modes/states: a sleeping mode and an active mode. The sleeping mode transmits nothing. In the sleeping mode, the sensor checks for movement in a way that conserves power. It's possible that the active state is doing funky things to reduce power demands.
Keep in mind that the basic idea of ANT is that the sensors provide very basic data in a way that uses minimal power and that it's the head unit that does anything complicated.
I'm not sure what else you think could be going on.
In my case the Bontrager manual is pretty explicit. You can pair or connect ANYTIME, initiated just on the computer side of things. So
something else is going on. There is a reasonable chance that it is simply a manual error, but that is what caused me to speculate other scenarios (such as sleep mode transmitting on a much reduced duty cycle).
dave