Newbie help please re trainer

[berty bassett]

Hi - good luck with the turbo , if I was you I would try just how you are at the moment - turbos ain’t for everybody and you may bore quickly , you also may think that a fan is more important once you build a sweat up . I use an atv with an old telly and never had any issue bar the remote being a pain in the proverbial, most platforms have an app that work on atv , but some don’t before you go down that route - enjoy

 

[Kbrook]

I upgraded my Android tablet to one with more memory, as mentioned above. The thing that drove me to it was needing about 1.5GB free space to download new versions of Zwift, which come thick and fast. That's over and above what it needs to run the actual software. In the end, every update was failing, so I was uninstalling before installing the new version. Naturally, I found that I needed to do that just before my planned event was starting, and so missed it in the process. With the new tablet, it takes a few seconds extra to update itself, and that's it - much, much less hassle.

Can't say whether it's the same on an iPad.

Do you have a link to your tablet or something similar? I’m useless with technology!

 

[Kbrook]

Hi - good luck with the turbo , if I was you I would try just how you are at the moment - turbos ain’t for everybody and you may bore quickly , you also may think that a fan is more important once you build a sweat up . I use an atv with an old telly and never had any issue bar the remote being a pain in the proverbial, most platforms have an app that work on atv , but some don’t before you go down that route - enjoy

Apologies what’s an ATV? Thanks for the tip about the fan!

 

[berty bassett]

Apologies what’s an ATV? Thanks for the tip about the fan!

Apple TV - Zwift , Rouvy , MyWhoosh all have apps that you can download onto atv a and depending where you are gonna be doing it - you may want to cover the floor under yourself as you leak a lot more than outside - sweat goes everywhere and is more corrosive than aliens blood !

 

[OldShep]

ATV = Apple TV box. They handle graphics extremely well. Almost essential for something like FulGaz and 4K videos

 

[Kbrook]

Many thanks everyone you’ve been very helpful

 

[oldandslow]

Do you have a link to your tablet or something similar? I’m useless with technology!

It's a Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 FE. The FE bit means it's a basic one. Been around a couple of years now, so there are probably better options if you want something to last a few years. But I like it. Works differently from an iPad of course, as it's Android rather than iOS.