Bosch eBike Connect Reviews

The Bosch Performance CX motor and Kiox are great. However BoscheBikeConnect is really, Really bad.
First, one never knows if the ride is going to get synced to the phone app. So I’ve lost many rides for lack of a sync. It ought to do it or give me a way to do it when I e stopped.
Secondly, there is so much data available that doesn’t get to BoscheBikeConnect , ascent/descent, power used, batter Wh used should all be available. This isn’t hard to do and you should have this fixed by now. Once the kiox resets the ride all that data is lost. For serious riders, we need to know how far, how fast, how much elevation did we climb, how much power did we use in Watts and how much of the battery was consumed. This will allow us to make better judgements about what trails we can ride without running out of power at the bottom of a hill before we start riding. The range is helpful but I want to figure it out before I get on the dirt.

Please please please fix this. I have to attach my Garmin to the bars just to track all of this amd then manually record how much of the battery was used on every ride.

Love BoscheBikeConnect as it syncs data from my NYON easily. However, there are some overall data issues. E.g. when exporting data to Strava, BOSCH eBike Connect will show me 150W average user power and after export, Strava will show 33W avg user power. Also, when exporting data in GPX format from the portal and while selecting the summary data incl all segments of the day, the portal will only export the 1st segment. I’ll use BoscheBikeConnect for sync from NYON for the most part. Everything else is pretty much done through the web portal. Also, wished I could switch metric and imperial.
Love NYON and wished there would be a better community engagement from BOSCH’s UX and Dev teams.

I paid $365 to upgrade (plus labor) to this premium device. It is absurd that it does not integrate with:

Apple Health - This is most critical since all my other workouts are tracked there. Plus I want my rides to contribute to my fitness rings.

Apple Watch - The ability to use my watch’s excellent heart rate monitor would be great. It would also be handy to be able to stop a workout (ride) on the watch.

Strava - This is a standard here in the USA. All my other cycling activities are uploaded here automatically by my other devices.

I had the Bosch Smartphone Hub and it is a mess in most ways. But at least it was able to do the 3 items above. Also, the ability to set cadence and heart rate zones is missing. Even the crappy Smartphone Hub could show you your heart rate zones during a ride. That is important if riding for fitness. Bosch got the hardware right with the new Nyon. But they totally fail with the required integrations. Please fix this. It would be an easy 5 star review if so much was not missing.

The lack of Apple Health and Strava integration is almost unbelievable. These devices were announced with support for syncing with Apple Health at least, but here we are. Paid to upgrade two bikes with head units using BoscheBikeConnect based on initial reviews highlighting those integrations, but failed to read app reviews first.

AVOID any head unit requiring BoscheBikeConnect until Bosch adds these basic integrations.

I love the automatic route tracking via Bluetooth and auto-sync with Komoot. BoscheBikeConnect itself keeps track of past activities, which is also big plus.

Unlike other reviewers I have had no issues updating my Kiox device.

For a bike vendor, it’s a pretty good app!

I have to say, I was worried when there was a new Kiox display released with its own new app that had Apple Health. But, sure enougj, this one was actually updated with it, and I can report it works great! Within a minute or so of me finishing a ride, it showed up in Apple Health.

The developers of BoscheBikeConnect need to take a cue from Cobi app that works seamlessly and connects with Apple Watch. The greatest mistake I made was replacing my smartphone hub with the Nyon 2021. I no longer able to charge my phone from Nyon’s micro USB port. Since it does not connect with Apple Watch, I no longer can see my heart rate from the display. Also, no voice notification when modes are changed. I strongly advise those who currently have smartphone hub against upgrading to the new nyon.

Generally I was pretty happy with BoscheBikeConnect and the system. Went for a back country ride (phone on airplane as no service and only Bluetooth on) with 4.2.0. No issues. Did the same the following week with 4.3.0 and it would stop navigating every 20 minutes. I would have to restart BoscheBikeConnect on the phone to recover.

BoscheBikeConnect is buggy and doesn’t update unless you keep the bike on for 10min after ride (there is no manual update function, it just does it every 10min or so...). The gps tracker almost never works. It has no way to upload activity details (power, cadence, etc.) to Strava. It can’t be that hard to make BoscheBikeConnect amazing!

I originally had connected BoscheBikeConnect and then deleted it due to not using it much. Thought I would reinstall and after 20 minutes and 5 attempts I could not sync BoscheBikeConnect to the Kiox
Furthermore, the instructions on the website are different than what is on the Kiox.

It’s been months since HealthKit support was promised, I’m waiting for this. Is support for the Apple Watch coming this year?

I would love to use the Lock feature, in fact it was a factor in purchasing my eBike, but I can not find a way to purchase the premium feature.

Although the summary shows my max speed in MPH, the map display and speed graph shows speed in KPH. I can’t find any settings in BoscheBikeConnect to change this. My Kiox computer is set to MPH so not sure if this is an issue with BoscheBikeConnect ? Can someone please fix this?

Please add Apple Watch Support. The ability to see heart rate from the Apple Watch on the Kiox display would be a very welcome improvement. Thankfully they did finally add altitude support in Kiox.

Even though I have gone into settings and toggled to imperial, off imperial, and back to imperial, it is stuck on metric

BoscheBikeConnect constantly keeps asking me to allow it to sync with the Bosch Nyon system on the bike. The moment I am on the bike BoscheBikeConnect keeps asking for permission to sync. I approve and it keeps asking even though blue tooth recognizes BoscheBikeConnect is pared with the Nyon. I finally deleted BoscheBikeConnect as it has no real benefits.

Cannot get the Kiox to connect with the Bosch application.
App. Says I am connected. Kiox the same, however the Kiox doesn’t send information to the iPhone. Tried to reboot several times, no luck. Just use Strava and save yourself the grief.

You should integrate with the watch. Can feed the heart rate info to your device. Simple.

Once the Kiox connected via Bluetooth, no updates are available, and I know there are many. Cannot manually force or select software updates.

What is wrong with you Bosch? $365 for the Nyon computer and for the features I bought the computer for (range, custom modes, security lock), it is nearly $20 more to unlock those feature!? That is just so unbelievably greedy!

I would give ZERO STARS if I could.

I will be returning the Nyon computer and getting my money back.

Shame on you, Bosch.

Aunque se conecte con el Kiox, no recibe los datos de la ruta tras múltiples intentos. App inútil