Reddit reviews Wahoo Fitness Key for iPod/iPhone, Standard Packaging
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Connects your iPhone to any ANT+ fitness sensor such as heart rate monitors, cycling speed & cadence sensors and power metersCan be used to pull data from an ANT+ GPS watch, such as Garmin, into an iPhone App for easy upload to the webWireless
ANT+ ultra low power technologyVery low power usage;
no internal batteryCompatible with iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, iPod touch, iPad; fits into 30-pin connector
Hey there!
My name is Bryce and I work for TrainerRoad.
I personally train with the 935 and you can absolutely pair it to your TrainerRoad app, albeit only via ANT+.
To get your watch to re-broadcast HR via ANT+, go:
Settings->Sensors and Accessories->Wrist Heart Rate->Broadcast HR
Now, your iPhone 7 does not have ANT+ built in sadly, so you will need to acquire a Wahoo ANT+ Key and Lightning to 30 pin adapter. These do not come cheap, however, and you may well be better off buying a Bluetooth Compatible Chest Strap, but I will leave that decision up to you. Here are the pieces you will need to get ANT+ up and running on your phone:
https://www.amazon.com/Wahoo-Fitness-Key-iPod-iPhone/dp/B0042WGO3Y
https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Lightning-30-Pin-Adapter-MD823AM/dp/B014854UWG/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_107_lp_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=C9H6NYGDWF481AKVC7VH
Feel free to reach out if you have any more questions!
The iPhone itself does not have the built-in ANT+ radio that would be required to discover and read from a chirp beacon. However, you can buy a dongle to add the capability. The only one I'm aware of is the wahoo fitness key. However, it uses the older 30-pin dock connector, so you'd also need to have a 30-pin connector to lightning adapter to use it with anything newer than the iPhone 4s. If you've been using an iPhone for a while like me, you probably have one of those adapters laying around already. Once you have the hardware, the GeoBeacon app that someone already mentioned will use the dongle to read the chirp beacon.
I have used this combination in the past with an iPhone 6, and other than the app using the older pre-iOS 7 skeuomorphic UI, it worked great to read a chirp. I would expect it to work with the iPhone 7 as well, but I haven't had a reason to try it. There are only two chirp caches in my area. If I was considering buying the dongle again today, I'd probably skip it since the price on Amazon has gone up quite a bit since I bought it. I'd probably try to team up with someone that had an Android phone that supported ANT+ natively instead.
The Garmin specific one apparently doesn't but this one does work.
People are mentioning some kind of adapter needed for the iPhone5 but it looks like it should just plug directly in...?