Bike connects to wrong device

Owned by Jason Tocci (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Dec 01, 2017
1 min read

Problem

When you launch the VirZOOM game on your PC, console, or mobile device, it connects to the first active but unconnected VirZOOM bike it finds. This decision was made to be convenient for the average, at-home user: Dongles aren't preprogrammed for specific bikes, so it's cheap to get a replacement if a dongle is lost or broken. Turning on multiple bikes at once in a single place, however, can therefore lead to some confusion about which device each bike is connected to. 

Solution

If you want multiple VirZOOM bikes and games in a room, you need to be a bit more careful about powering them on to make sure that bikes connect to computers in the order you expect. To do that:

  1. Start up one game.
  2. Power up one bike.
  3. Pedal until you see the L+R start screen, indicating that the bike and device are now paired.
  4. Repeat steps 1-3 as needed for another bike and device pair, one bike at a time.

If a bike goes to sleep and reawakens, don't worry: It will always reconnect with the game it started out with. If a game starts out with a bike you didn't want it to, however, this means you'll need to restart that game.