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Android wearable support replacing music controls

With the newest update the ZR team has added wearable support, which I thought was awesome! But I tried it on my Pixel Watch 3 on my last run and have encountered a slight problem: the media controls for ZR completely replace the media controls for my Spotify playlist. On my phone, I can still control the two separately, but on my watch it just shows the screen for ZR.

I have the app set to "external music player" which I believe should be the right setting. The media control screen on my watch is also just a pause/play button and I'm not sure that's intended; from the update notes I got the impression that I should be able to start, stop and pause the run from my watch, but I can only pause and resume it once I've started it on my phone. I also can't find an option in the app to turn off the wearable integration; that would be my prefered solution at the moment so I can at least control my Spotify playlist while I run.

Has anyone else encountered this problem and/or knows a solution? The ZR team probably doesn't have any extra capabilites at the moment and I'm very happy and grateful they decided to implement this at all, but I might still send in a support request just to make them aware this feature might not be working the way they intended.

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u/koalamint — 19 hours ago

Sunday debriefing - July 05, 2026 - post your mission reports here!

Greetings, runners!

This is a post made by the Advanced Unmanned Training Officer and Morale Officer, Digitally Enhanced Report Aggregator, and Tactical Operation Reviewer (A.U.T.O.M.O.D.E.R.A.T.O.R.)

Submit your weekly mission reports and / or the outputs of your Advanced Personal Pedometers (A.P.P.s) into this RoffleNet thread for peer review!

Signed,

A.U.T.O.M.O.D.E.R.A.T.O.R, as appointed by the Abel Township Council

(Ah, management. Always using stuffy language like that. What they want is for you to post your mission reports and screenshots here. They freed up the RoffleNet bandwith today, so you could talk them over with your fellow runners. Signed, your friendly neighborhood sysadmin.)

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u/AutoModerator — 1 day ago

*Spoilers Possible * Question about a character in season 9... Possible spoilers!

So here's my question and it's regarding the character Van Ark... In season 9 there is a version of him running around within the story that they explain was cloned (?) Or grown back from leftover cells (?)

Either way, what do we think? Is he truly a clone? And in that case like only affected by the events that occur in his life to make him who he was or could be?

Or do we think this is more like a Deadpool situation where he was just reconstituted and he's basically the same person?

I've recently gone back to the app after a while and decided to jump right back into where I was. That just happened to be halfway through season 9 and I'm unclear if I've listened to and or finished seasons 10 and 11.

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u/Yaro672003 — 4 days ago

Sunday debriefing - June 28, 2026 - post your mission reports here!

Greetings, runners!

This is a post made by the Advanced Unmanned Training Officer and Morale Officer, Digitally Enhanced Report Aggregator, and Tactical Operation Reviewer (A.U.T.O.M.O.D.E.R.A.T.O.R.)

Submit your weekly mission reports and / or the outputs of your Advanced Personal Pedometers (A.P.P.s) into this RoffleNet thread for peer review!

Signed,

A.U.T.O.M.O.D.E.R.A.T.O.R, as appointed by the Abel Township Council

(Ah, management. Always using stuffy language like that. What they want is for you to post your mission reports and screenshots here. They freed up the RoffleNet bandwith today, so you could talk them over with your fellow runners. Signed, your friendly neighborhood sysadmin.)

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u/AutoModerator — 8 days ago
▲ 27 r/Runner5

How do you guys build your base?

I saw somewhere online that base building was a feature in the app with the supplies you get on your runs, but I can't seem to find that option on my device. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

u/Hothotoro — 12 days ago
▲ 10 r/Runner5

GPS Accuracy : ZR vs Fitbit?

How accurate are the ZR distances? The distance ZR has is significantly lower than what my fitbit with GPS run tracking gives me. ​I'm wondering which is more accurate. It can be off by half a mile or more.

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u/Grapeporium — 14 days ago