I ride exclusively indoors at the moment and my upstairs room in the summer of Southern California can get very hot (and also fairly cold in the winter - for me anyways).
Ambient temperature is such an important factor in riding, is there a way for me to automatically track that with a particular product or something??
Any guidance would be great!
My Edge 840 records ambient temp.
That pulls into intervals.icu automatically or did you have to write something for it?
Sweet thank you both! I’ll do some looking around to see if there are any products under $500 that can record temperature - with Zwift I cant really justify the need to buy a head unit to my wife 
My former Edge 830 also recorded ambient temp. But the unit died when my dog got curious 
. You should be able to find a 530 for about a third of that.
Garmin have a Tempe (temperature sensor) which sends ambient temperatures to many devices. Doesn’t help if you don’t have a compatible device. I’ve seen runners use it, but not cyclists…
@Skyler I have used the tempe, it will do what you are after and is a cheap price. I bought one for running as watches don’t show accurate temperature.
I was doing some poking around online and I did not find anything that suggested I could use the Tempe without another garmin product.
Unfortunately I’m in a fairly unique(?) situation in that I only have a Wahoo Kickr Core and Zwift and that about tapped out my budget for now.
Saving up for a “real” bike, so I don’t have the free capital to buy any garmin products as of now.
I appreciate all the insights and comments but it is seeming like I’ll be temperature-less for now
Garmin watches uses your wrist temperature. kea sense as it’s really the closest to your skin and thus the skin temp is influencing it
What’s your use case?
Are you looking to correlate your performance vs indoor temperature or skin temp or even core temperature? Then check your performance at diff temp?
I think a CORE sensor would be more suitable than a Tempe for this.
Yeah ambient temperature is ultimately just a stand-in for core temperature. It is the core body temp that drives performance- not ambient temperature.
Just that core temperature is another gadget to put on my body whereas ambient temperature would just always be present without strapping something on - that’s the thought
For this the tempe will be good. I use mine mainly for skiing - it is a bit sensitive in terms of where you place it, if you don’t want it to pick up your body heat - I have mine on the back of a backpack. Every time I start an activity on my watch in the same room, it connects to the tempe, just from it hanging there on the backpack.
I have one of these (ÂŁ10) and have a custom field that I manually just put the numbers in at the end of the workout.
I’ve seen there is custom firmware to get it to emit the readings via bluetooth but I never really looked into it.
I was also interested in this, especially in combination with core temperature measurements to experiment with heat training.
I’ve been using a Garmin Tempe that’s on my road bike that’s stored in the same room as my indoor trainer.
That way I’ve accurate environmental temperature measurements both indoor and outdoor. Found a good second hand deal for 15 euros. Well worth the investment to me.
