Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces

pilleus

@NickK said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

You could just sync to Movescount, which would automatically sync to Suunto.

Does not work for me. There was an initial transfer of the history, but no added activity is synced to Suunto app. In Suunto app Movescount is listed as connected and vice versa.

Any ideas?

Mff73

@pilleus
This connection with MC is not real connection but is saying : “Hey, you have imported your MC history, it is only once, but no new MC moves will be sent to SA”
The sync from MC to SA, is eventually done with connect MC to Sportstracker, but i think it is no more a good solution.

pilleus

@Mff73 I assumed that. I just tried to import an activity recorded with the S7 and a third party app into Suunto app without loosing ascent and descent. But this is not possible. The same faulty import as it happens with Sportstracker. No good news.

Mff73

@pilleus
Yep, I see the same. Maybe just Syncmytracks, but who knows. Syncmytracks only works with tcx or gpx, maybe lack of information in these files. Or just SA which needs Fit files with all ascent/descent header + extra data not in TCS files. I don’t know.
I also extract one tcx file from SA. I obtain a 8Mo file where the same activity from MC is only 650Ko.

pilleus

@Mff73 the upload from Ghostracer to Strava and the import in QS is working perfect. All data shown.

The problem is on the side of Sportstracker and Suunto app.

@pilleus said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

Does not work for me. There was an initial transfer of the history,

I’d try to disconnect Movescount from Suunto and setup a connection again. I think I did it several times, though I’m not sure that disconnect ever happened. So, right now if I push anything to Movescount, it pops up in my Suunto app almost instantly. Unless there’s an activity with roughly the same timestamp in Suunto already.

giulio

How to calibrate Compass in suunto app?
I dont understand why it isn’t…
Sometimes it would need

pilleus

@NickK now I connected Movescount additionally to SportsTracker and it seems that this was the solution. Import immediately and with ascent and descent. I try to figure out, which connection (Suunto or SportsTracker) is the working one.

pilleus

Okay guys, I’ll be out here for the future, because I sold my S7.

I found a WearOS watch which is much more fitting my needs (all day’s usage and sports, mountain biking, cycling, walking and kayaking with less battery usage and the same accuracy).

And for routes and the Polar H10 I have the Spartan Ultra Stealth Titanium and my old Ambit 3.

Have fun and keep moving!

JorgeFD

@pilleus good luck!! I hope to see you again here

MO92119

@pilleus Just out of curiosity - which watch is it?!

pilleus

@jorgefd78 said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus good luck!! I hope to see you again here

I’m just leaving this topic. There are still two Suunto watches in my usage.

pilleus

@MO92119 said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus Just out of curiosity - which watch is it?!

For my sports the Ticwatch Pro 2020 is the best WearOS watch out there. Especially the battery usage, the brilliant second display, the native sleep tracking and the speaker, which gives me via tts every kilometre or every 10 minutes the state of my activity with distance, duration, calories, average speed and heart rate. It is awesome.

aeroild

@pilleus I’m sorry to see you go. Your adventurous approach to finding apps and work arounds to solve problems and fulfill needs will be missed!

pilleus

Google Fit and battery usage

I experienced, that deactivating Google Fit will deactivate all tracking of heart rate, steps and calories at the moment. Suunto WearApp doesn’t do this job quite now.

Setting up the S7 in the beginning I deactivated location services for Google Fit, but in the settings of the S7 I saw, that location service is enabled after all. I didn’t track my activities with Google Fit, therefore I deactivated activity tracking in Google Fit too. No need for location services.

Then I decided to deactivate location services for Google Fit in the S7 settings. Just follow the screenshots (excuse me for the German language, but you will find the corresponding settings in your own language).

Open settings - apps&notficiations - app info - scroll down to system apps - open system apps - scroll down to Fit - open Fit - scroll down to permissions - deactivate location services - confirm the dialog field with the warning.

Now Google Fit will work without tracking activities with using GPS and the battery usage should be minimal.

JANTIKAINEN

What is the best message app for S7?
I’ve tried wear messages and informer but neither of them show pics for me in whatsapp messages.

pilleus

@JANTIKAINEN Android phone? IPhone?

JANTIKAINEN

@pilleus android

pilleus

@JANTIKAINEN said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus android

I do not understand why there are no pictures shown in wear messages. I never had a problem with the app.

Egika

@pilleus said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

Google Fit and battery usage

I experienced, that deactivating Google Fit will deactivate all tracking of heart rate, steps and calories at the moment. Suunto WearApp doesn’t do this job quite now.

Setting up the S7 in the beginning I deactivated location services for Google Fit, but in the settings of the S7 I saw, that location service is enabled after all. I didn’t track my activities with Google Fit, therefore I deactivated activity tracking in Google Fit too. No need for location services.

Then I decided to deactivate location services for Google Fit in the S7 settings. Just follow the screenshots (excuse me for the German language, but you will find the corresponding settings in your own language).

Open settings - apps&notficiations - app info - scroll down to system apps - open system apps - scroll down to Fit - open Fit - scroll down to permissions - deactivate location services - confirm the dialog field with the warning.

Thank you for these hints. I probably don’t get the point.
Would this (disable GPS for Fit) have any effect if I don’t start tracking an activity from Fit?
If I use Fit to record something, location is needed. If I don’t use Fit this way, it should not activate GPS anyway…?!