 Hello everyone welcome to another episode of how to run on Zwift. Today we are looking at the Zwift companion app but specifically how to connect your Bluetooth devices to Zwift if you are running Zwift on a PC. It's a cause of massive consternation a lot of the time wondering how on earth do I get my Bluetooth foot pod or my Bluetooth heart rate monitor connected to Zwift when Windows doesn't actually support Bluetooth low energy devices. So I've brought up the Zwift app on my PC and you can see in the top right hand corner there left hand corner for you are two icons. One is the ant plus icon one is the Bluetooth icon. These are the two ways that you connect your devices to Zwift so Zwift can measure your heart rate and accurately reproduce your speed within the game. Traditionally on a PC we've used ant plus and we've used that plus with this USB stick here that amp plus USB stick plugs right into the computer I'm just going to do it now for you and you'll see that when I plug it in the ant plus icon will start flashing. Okay so I've plugged it in give it a second and you'll see the amp plus icon will start flashing there it is a beacon in the darkness of connectivity but if we've only got Bluetooth devices that doesn't help us at all so what we need is a bridge between our Bluetooth devices and Windows and that is the Zwift companion app. So if we load up the Zwift companion app here is my iPhone and I'm going to click on the companion app you can see the the game the Zwift game is the orange app and the Zwift companion app is the blue icon so what we're going to do is we're going to load up the Zwift companion app by tapping on the icon you will need to be on the same Wi-Fi network as your PC so you'll need to make sure that your PC is connected to the internet via Wi-Fi so they need to both be on the same Wi-Fi network or it won't work click on the companion app we wait a couple of seconds that's the normal screen the normal screen that you will see when you load up the Zwift companion app and then shortly it should recognise that we're on the same network as Zwift and that Zwift is loaded and hopefully any second now it will connect there we are connecting so now it's recognised that we have Zwift running on a PC on the same local Wi-Fi network as the Zwift companion app and the iPhone so if we now switch back and look at the PC you can see in the top right hand corner there that the ant plus icon is still flashing but now we also have the Bluetooth icon flashing you might also notice in the background behind me if I just make myself smaller that I have some connected devices now I'm not wearing a heart rate monitor but you can see that my treadmill is connected via Bluetooth as a speed source and it's also connected as a cadence source so let me just run through that with you again in the top right hand corner of the screen you can see my iPhone I'm going to click on the Zwift companion app and load it up behind me you can see the PC and you'll see the Bluetooth connection and then you'll see me connect to my Bluetooth devices so here I go I'm going to press on the companion app that loads up give it a few seconds hopefully it will connect there we are we're connected so we now have the Bluetooth icon flashing as well as the ant plus icon flashing so let's see if we can search for our Bluetooth device and there we are look you can see it says it's a Bluetooth device and that's my treadmill we click okay it's also been connected as a cadence source so then we would click okay and carry on into the game let's disconnect the Bluetooth now so we'll double click on that turn it off so now let's unpair these devices and let's go in and try and repair now that you can see that the Bluetooth icon no longer exists and look the my run treadmill is black it's not connected it says searching at the top there although it knows that there is a my run treadmill around somewhere in fact it's completely disappeared now let's search in cadence nothing in cadence so now let's load up the Zwift companion app again so there it is connecting so we now have Bluetooth search there is the my run the Bluetooth device is there available for me to select and they are now connected if you have a milestone foot pod the same thing will happen if you have a stride foot pod the same thing should happen anyone with a milestone or a stride or any other Bluetooth device that is how you should be able to connect your Bluetooth device to Zwift on a pc if the milestone doesn't connect take the battery out put it back in again see what happens often it will take a few seconds for a foot pod to wake up so maybe shake it put it on your foot and shake your foot about or even just start the treadmill and start running on the treadmill to wake up your Bluetooth device hopefully then you will find that it appears on the screen do try always to make sure that your stride foot pod is fully charged do make sure that your milestone foot pod has a new battery in it or at least one that you know has a lot of charge remaining in it remember the trick if your milestone doesn't work if you're standing still or if it's not recognized just take the battery out leave it for a few seconds and then put the battery back in shake your foot about shake the milestone pod about hopefully it will wake up and it will work and that is it guys that is how to connect your Bluetooth devices be it a heart rate monitor be it a foot pod or anything else tread tracker even via the Zwift companion app to a PC running Zwift on Windows thanks very much for watching take care we'll see you again bye bye