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Row a Concept2 on Zwift with a $10 Raspberry Pi!

Short story, I made a program. Instructions and download here:  https://github.com/mrverrall/go-row Despite there being an appetite for rowing in Zwift the fact is a rowing machine is not a bicycle and a Concept2 rower won't connect directly to Zwift. The Zwift gods tease a rowing release every now and again, but it's been coming 'soon' for years now. Don't hold your breath. But people do row in Zwift, so how do they do it? To get the data from the rowers computer, the PM5, into something Zwift recognises as a bicycle you need a device that translates between the rower and the device running Zwift. There are solutions already available to do this. Some are expensive like the  NPE CABLE (about £90 in the UK) and some are 'free' like the  RowedBiker  app. The downside with RowedBiker is that it needs to run on a extra device separate from the one running Zwift. If you have a compatible device lying around, great, otherwise you'll need to buy one. Meanwh