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Row with your WaterRower S4 in a rowing game

A WaterRower with the S4 monitor and the WaterRower Bluetooth ComModule speaks standard fitness Bluetooth (FTMS), and RowingBuddy reads your distance, pace, power and stroke rate from it.

What you need

  • A WaterRower with the S4 monitor.
  • The WaterRower Bluetooth ComModule, the add-on that gives the S4 Bluetooth.
  • A computer, or an Android phone or tablet, with Chrome or Edge.

How to connect

  1. Open RowingBuddy in Chrome or Edge and choose Rower.
  2. Choose WaterRower S4.
  3. Wake the monitor with a stroke or any button.
  4. Pick your rower in the browser’s Bluetooth window.
  5. Row a few strokes. The live numbers should match the S4’s own display.

Then pick a world and a workout, and row. To put it on the big screen, see how to row on your TV.

If it won’t connect

  • Not in the Bluetooth list? Wake the monitor again and try once more.
  • Close any other rowing app on your phone or tablet first: the rower only talks to one app at a time.
  • Without the ComModule, the S4 has no Bluetooth. A SmartRow sensor is the other way to connect a WaterRower.
  • The ComModule needs a newer S4 monitor: the first version of the S4 doesn’t support it. Your manual says which one you have.

Still stuck? The questions and answers may help.

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