Suunto Software update Q1 (2.53.42)

[HonzaS]

Why the magnetic declination compass value couldn’t be downloaded automatically while syncing the watch?
I’ll also appreciate UV index value in weather widget and now, if we have units section in settings, we could get km/h option for wind speed.

[safari]

@HonzaS
I was just about to write a comment on this, and this exchange came up. The wind unit km/h can be added to the “support mixed unit systems” feature.
I wrote about this before. We don’t use m/h.

[Stefano M64]

@Sportsfreund said in Suunto Software update Q1 (2.53.42):

@Stefano-M64 do you live alone? I always only use the vibration to keep my family asleep.
The alarm is independent of dnd.

thanks for the replay, at the end both ring only and vibration only can be unpleasant if the hand is close to the head while still sleeping, I will use the watch alarm only during daytime and outdoor activities, smartphone is more pleasant for wake up

[tomtom73]

@tuxbuster I’ve just lost 3% in 7h while not using the watch at all, no HR. It’s more than before the update

[Giorgio60]

@tuxbuster Ho notato un calo più veloce della batteria del mio race 2 se la carica non arriva al 100%. Pertanto attendo che arrivi al 100%.

[Speed Man]

Please help fix an issue where the watch shuts down during activities when using SuuntoPlus 2 apps (ZoneSense and Suunto Spark).

[aiv4r]

@Speed-Man in this forum I’ve already seen few people that use ZoneSense app and get crashes, maybe you should drop that one and see if it helps. I am just guessing but it might be related that ZS is now native and the app is not needed at all.

[Speed Man]

@aiv4r Thank you, I’ll give it a try

[tuxbuster]

@Giorgio60 said in Suunto Software update Q1 (2.53.42):

Per quanto riguarda la ricarica della batteria sul mio suunto race 2, effettivamente ho notato anche io una certa scarica un po troppo veloce se blocco la ricarica sotto il 100%. Ma ho risolto caricando sempre al 100%

I see, you think you’re the funny guy here. I won’t comment on that any further, except for this: Even after several hours, the watch only reaches 99%

[tuxbuster]

@tomtom73 said in Suunto Software update Q1 (2.53.42):

I’ve just lost 3% in 7h while not using the watch at all, no HR. It’s more than before the update

Try performing a soft reset. That usually solves the issue for me. Unfortunately, the problem tends to come back after a while.

[sky-runner]

@HonzaS said in Suunto Software update Q1 (2.53.42):

Why the magnetic declination compass value couldn’t be downloaded automatically while syncing the watch?

That’s what Garmin does.

[safari]

@sky-runner From now on, a sensitivity of 0.1 should be entered for magnetic declination degrees in the next update. We enter either 6.0 or 6.5 instead of 6.3.

[Egika]

@safari when will you navigate with a watch at a precision higher than 1° anyway?

[Speed Man]

@sky-runner I’ve seen you bring this up many times. Garmin is great-but why do you think everyone has to use Garmin?

If Suunto were exactly like Garmin, I wouldn’t use it either.

Don’t try to push others to be like someone else.

[safari]

@Egika
Rest assured, there is a significant angle difference between 6.0 and 6.5.

[Elipsus]

@safari There is not a “significant difference” in a 0.5° error for a sport watch, at all.

Lets say you are in a desert, and are planing a 50km walk in a single direction to reach the next oasis, and exclusively use the compass to orient yourself, you would have just, at most, 400m of error at the end.
Even for this highly un-realistic scenario (who tries to do that ? ever ? ) the error is way small enough to be like “oh, the Oasis is just right over here !”

Lets kick things up a notch ! You are in Nianey, at the bottom edge of the Sahara desert, and want to go to Alger, at the Mediterranean sea border up south…with your slightly incorrect compass mounted on your GPS capable watch.
After 2500km of walking in the desert, you will arrive at Tessela El Merdja, just 22km in the suburbs of Alger, where anyone will be able to guide you to it.

And, if you ever have this scenario, don’t forget that you can enter actual GPS coordinates in watch and be done with it.

EDIT: I took a 0.5° error, and should have been using 0.2°, so the error values are 160m and 8.8km

[safari]

@Elipsus :)) That’s also true.

[Gunnar]

@Elipsus so you only check the direction at the start of the 50km hike?

[Elipsus]

@Gunnar I don’t check anything, I enter a GPS coordinate, and I’m following that !
But in the hypothetical scenario, I would be following a path along a 0.5° orientation error, so that’s how I got my rough calculation error (and I now realize I should have been using 0.2, which would be the highest rounding error between 6 and 6.5)

[tomtom73]

@tuxbuster thanks. Even with soft reboots the battery consumption is high, I’ve lost 8% during the night while not wearing the watch