Precor EFX 245 Energy Series Elliptical Crosstrainer

My wife Alicia bought me (her husband) this machine for our anniversary. Awesome machine! I have not had any problems utilizing Bluetooth headphones or speakers when connecting my iPhone to the console. In fact I use the console to control functions and song and or artist appear on the console. Great machine and tons of workouts. Both the wife and I love it! Precor is best. Preva app is cool and motivating for us. Go try for yourself!

the mechanics work fine.The software is a different thing. While you can plug your phone into the machine and have it recird your workout automatically in the app/cloud and thus get audio controls on the elliptical, the app prevents you from being able to use Bluetooth for audio from the phone to Bluetooth speakers/headsets - you are forced to plug headphones into the machine. That is lame. There should be a way to allow the audio to Bluetooth out to my external speakers while still charging the phone and syncing the data.The heart rate strap doesn't seem to work unless you are a sweaty person. Having set the contacts as instructed I get a few minutes of heart rate before it drops out again, presumably because the water dried up.So of the biggest end features in the controller most seem like they don't work well. I've got to run a wire to my external speakers (really?) and I cannot get through the fitness test as the heart rate strap dries up after 4 minutes.