Virtual Gearing on QZ with Zwift, Rouvy, Mywhoosh and Traning Peaks
In this document I will try to cover all the aspect of Virtual gearing on QZ. First of all, QZ is offering virtual gearing since 4 years ago, a lot earlier than Zwift and other apps!
Virtual gearing can be obtained in QZ with these devices:
- Zwift Play
- Zwift Ride
- Zwift Click
- Any bluetooth remote that have a volume control
- Directly from the QZ interface with the gear tile and the big gear tiles!
For the zwift click, first be sure that your firmware is updated. This is mandatory: open the Zwift Companion app and update it in case. Then close the companion and open QZ and enable the Zwift Click setting under accessories in the QZ settings and restart QZ
Enable the Zwift Play under the accessories settings->Zwift in QZ and restart QZ.
Eanble also the Gear tile in the Tiles settings in QZ to see the gear in realtime
Pair it to your phone and enable the Gear on volume setting under the advanced settings in QZ. When you will change the volume, the gears will automatically change too in QZ and so on your trainer! QZ must be running on foreground for this
Enable the gear tile in the tiles settings in qz to see the current gear number and also you can enable the "big gear" tile to have big tiles to change the gears directly in the qz interface!
- Close QZ and the app that you want to use
- Wake up your trainer and your Zwift device
- Open QZ and if you already did the steps above it will connect automatically to your trainer and to your zwift device and if you have the gear tile enabled you can see the gear changing when you click on the buttons.
- Then you can open your favourite training app like Zwift or Rouvy or Mywhoosh or Indievelo and connect QZ directly there
On Zwift you have several options to get Virtual Gearing from QZ. The easiest one is to connect the trainer and the Zwift click, play, ride, bluetooth remote or even just qz, directly in QZ and pair Zwift with QZ for Power, Cadence and Resistance and HR (if you would like to)
Also you can use this method to have gears directly on Zwift https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJl2zkQ2SuA For this method you need version 2.18.6. On android you can join the beta to obtain it https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.cagnulen.qdomyoszwift and on iOS you can write me to [email protected]
Be sure to have connected everything on QZ first as suggested above. Then pair QZ on this app for Power, Cadence and Controllable. Now changing the gears will also effect the experience in the game!
For Wahoo and Zwift trainers you have a special page under QZ->Settings->Bike settings->Wahoo where you can change the preset for the gears!
This feature is available from the version 2.18.5. On android you can join the beta to obtain it https://play.google.com/apps/testing/org.cagnulen.qdomyoszwift and on iOS you can write me to [email protected]
If you have a compatible Zwift Hub device (so you see gears directly on zwift without using qz) you have also enable this if you want to customize gears
