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Psychopasta
Yes, I too have bikes and e-bikes that connect easily to Garmin, but it does seem that Bosch are deliberately making it difficult. It shouldn't take a level-2 tech support person to make Add Sensor...E-bike actually work, and the fact that it works with non-Bosch bikes but not with Bosch makes me angry with Bosch, despite the product itself being excellent. They really should have said 'does not work with Garmin and other third-party vendors' if they are deliberately making that the case. It would certainly have influenced my buying decision. There is no reason, beyond a corporate en****tification strategy, for this state of affairs. But, 'tis a first-world problem, caveat emptor
Woah, relax...I said level Two simply because they are knowledgeable in their field and make it easier for a shop that knows what they are doing. It wasn't some screed about needing them to make it happen and level one couldn't figure it out. It is a simple Bosch level 2 support is really excellent and level 1 is great but is the 10 steps method which we would have already done. Plus they did our Bosch Training and were always there for our questions. It was just nice knowing a name and face. Nothing against level 1 and I bet they probably could help answer the question but I prefer the level 2 folks because I could go a bit deeper in my questions.
I have a feeling your bike would probably work just fine and if I had the opportunity to work on it we could probably get it all talking together. I know when I set up my Wahoo heart rate it was relatively painless but then I would just forget to use it so I never really got a ton of data from it.
Not really a first world problem at all since Bosch E-bikes and Garmin heart rate monitors didn't exist in the Cold war era which has been over for 30+ years. Bosch was a company but not making e-bikes yet and Garmin started at the absolute tail end of the cold war but wasn't doing cycling products yet. I know people use that in common language but it is always so silly using old cold war terms to describe things that are unrelated to the actual terms.