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10 | 10 | The [cardio belt provided](https://www.sports-tech.uk.com/chest-strap-sportstech-uncoded) with the bike is also supported, the bike reads the value and forwards it in its bluetooth signal. |
11 | 11 | The cardio captors are reported to not be accurate. |
12 | 12 | #### Resistance |
13 | | -The resistance is adjusted after a few seconds delay (time for the engine to adapt magnetic resistance). |
| 13 | +The resistance is adjusted after a few seconds delay (time for the engine to adapt magnetic resistance). |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +## Stages |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +### SB20 |
| 18 | + |
| 19 | +The SB20 advertises as `Stages Bike <NNNN>` and is handled by the **`ftmsbike`** driver — no |
| 20 | +dedicated device class. It has **no display of its own**, so initial pairing/setup is done in the |
| 21 | +Stages Cycling app. |
| 22 | + |
| 23 | +#### Power and cadence |
| 24 | +Both come from the standard FTMS **Indoor Bike Data** characteristic (`0x2AD2`). The bike sets |
| 25 | +flags `0x00c5` — instantaneous cadence, instantaneous power and average power. |
| 26 | + |
| 27 | +#### Auto resistance (ERG) |
| 28 | +Fully supported over standard FTMS, and reliable in regular use — including QZ-managed **Peloton |
| 29 | +Power Zone** workouts, where QZ drives the target watts for the whole session. |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | +QZ takes control and sets a target, and the bike honours it: |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +``` |
| 34 | +0x2AD9 <- 00 Request Control -> 80 00 01 (success) |
| 35 | +0x2AD9 <- 07 Start/Resume -> 80 07 01 (success) |
| 36 | +0x2AD9 <- 05 XX XX Set Target Power -> 80 05 01 XX XX (success) |
| 37 | +``` |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +#### Rare issue: telemetry drops to zero |
| 40 | +Uncommon — power and cadence are reliable in normal use. Documented because the symptom looks like |
| 41 | +a QZ bug when it is not. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | +The bike can occasionally end up publishing a **stripped** Indoor Bike Data frame — flags `0x0011`, distance |
| 44 | +only, no power or cadence — while the Cycling Speed and Cadence characteristic stops updating. |
| 45 | +QZ then correctly shows 0 W and 0 rpm, because that is genuinely all the bike is sending. |
| 46 | + |
| 47 | +A power-cycle of the bike restores the full `0x00c5` frame. The trigger is not confirmed; a |
| 48 | +plausible cause is another consumer holding an FTMS **control** connection (for example a head unit |
| 49 | +or watch paired to the bike *as a trainer* rather than as sensors). If QZ shows no power while you |
| 50 | +are clearly pedalling, power-cycle the bike and check what else is connected to it. |
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