The rain fell and I stayed inside. Today was day 2 with Zwift and me Wahoo Kickr Snap smart trainer. Starting the ride was much easier today than yesterday. I decided to try live streaming over Youtube.com using my webcam aimed at my computer monitor. It did that but the screen was blown out and you cannot see the details.

After starting the Zwift software on my desktop computer connecting to the Kickr Snap and sensors went quickly once I opened the Zwift app on my Pixel 3 XL phone. I did learn that I need to check that all sensors are connected which is easy to do in Zwift by looking at the panels and data displayed. At one point my cadence sensor stopped and when I took a break at one hour I easily reconnected. The key is Zwift phone app which gathers all of the Bluetooth sensors and bundles it into one Bluetooth data stream.

My goal was to ride 25.3 miles and I accomplished that riding 25.36 miles which helps me reduce my shortage of miles towards my September goal. Not really riding yesterday (Tuesday) put me behind more so I still need to make up 94 miles to be on track with 326.19 miles counting today’s Zwift workout.

I connected Zwift to my Strava account and it uploaded the workout when I finished. This is what it looked like.

Strava automatically labeled this as a virtual ride. The sweat and effort was not virtual though.

After the workout I set out to solve the live stream issue trying two programs. The first was from Logitech that works with my webcam. The program has the feature of two sources, one a camera and the other the screen. I tested this and it worked okay but I kept getting messages about dropped frames and my computer bogged down.

The next program was Open Broadcaster Software (OBS). This was a little tricky to setup but once I got the settings figured out it worked better than the Logitech one, no dropped frames warnings. I record, stream to Youtube, or both. My next workout will use OBS. I have to be careful walking in the room (I call it the computer facility) where I have the bike, trainer and stuff setup because of all of the wires on the floor; fan power cord, webcam cable, trainer power cable, and other stuff.

Thursday may be wet again. If so I will be back on Zwift and the Kickr Snap.