@Brad_Olwin said in Primary Device Priority and Multi-Device Data Normalization for Sleep, HRV, Resources and All Logged Physiological Metrics:
@raven I would imagine most folks use one device but, I prefer sleeping with a smaller watch. SA does well if one switches between two watches, one for sleep and one for workouts/day use. I was merely stating for the OP that the app handles multiple watches well. I do not see a need to expend development resources to make small improvements to the current handling of more than one device. Again, training metrics are well integrated with more than one watch.
Right, I can see sleeping with a smaller watch even for civilians. Those people are still wearing one watch at a time and therefore, no conflicts.
For the OP, who wants to “define a primary device,” I’d suggest that if the current behavior is “first sync wins” then that serves to define the primary device. It’s whatever device you decide to sync first. If one is concerned about one device “stealing priority,” then I’d implement this system:
Before going to sleep, either shut down the phone/tablet/device used to run Suunto app or put it in airplane mode.
When one wakes up, set the watch one does not want to sync to either airplane mode or shut it down, ensuring only the primary device will sync.
Wake up / start the device with Suunto app and sync that first primary device.
Take second device off of airplane mode.
Assuming I understand how things currently work, this would ensure you could sleep with two devices but only have the “correct” one sync. Again though, I’m not sure why one would want to do this on a regular basis, and if they did, why not have a second Suunto account and allow both watches to sync to separate accounts, then you can look at the two apps side by side.
Now if Suunto ever decides to implement and promote a “stereo sleep” feature, where one is expected to wear two devices and they intermingle data, like having left and right Favero Assioma power meters or left and right Stryd footpods, then that would change a lot of things in the app and expectations of most users. I don’t see that happening soon.