Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!

isazi

@Saketo-Nemo would be terrible for a OHR sensor, especially one on the wrist, try to get a lock on heart rate mid activity. It could take pretty long, and most probably lock on cadence if you are moving. And it sounds like a nightmare of edge cases, with decisions to take on what to do when the belt is connected again, if it is. The simpler solution, and the one that most companies use as far I can see, is to have memory on the chest sensor itself to compensate for disconnects, so that data can be transferred back to the watch post activity. Of course if the battery dies this does not work, but coin cell operated straps lasts for much longer than a watch.

Anyway, easy to test. Start activity with paired chest strap, remove it, and go away until it disconnects, then check if the leds on the watch are blinking

florin2528

from my side after more than 1.4k km with S9 Baro.

cons:

sleep tracking, was not working properly. Taking movie watching and reading as sleeping. Garmin fenix5 didn’t do that. I’m not using it at all
display: light during evening/night
daily stress(WHR), battery was going low too often
- GPS - less accurate than Ambit2 or phone, this is the most important one for me.
missing shortcut for airplane mode
you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity
WHR not working properly, I would prefer not to show the numbers instead of wrong readings

pros:

well made, robust
good battery life compared with other
navigation - helped me a lot, by loading routes from colleagues, or defining new routes when running in new places.
good information on screen depending on the type of activity
I wouldn’t change it for Garmin, I tried fenix5 and was very bad on battery
nice straps

Suunto issues:

difficult to order accessories in Romania
I like the Suunto app, I would like to have it on the web also

Cheers,
Florin

Maryn

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity

yes you can.

freeheeler

@Maryn
maybe he did not do the firmware update?

Maryn

@TELE-HO maybe yes.

In latest sw version time is shown if you set more than 3 fields on the screen.
Of course, you can also put time(hour) as a seperate data field.

Maryn

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

less accurate than Ambit2

By the way, if you say that Ambit 2 has better gps then is highly likely that you are running an old software

Brad_Olwin

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

from my side after more than 1.4k km with S9 Baro.

cons:

sleep tracking, was not working properly. Taking movie watching and reading as sleeping. Garmin fenix5 didn’t do that. I’m not using it at all
Florin

This does not happen for me. If you have your normal sleep hours set and autoDnD set I never get sleep counted when reading or watching a movie. If you do not have sleep hours set it might be possible.

zvonejan

@florin2528 said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

you can’t see the time(hour) during an activity

double tap or bottom button (2 sec)

isazi

Doing an alpine climbing tour this week. The altimeter of the S9b is amazing, I have been sitting on a couple of summits with the watch agreeing with the map, same for huts. On the same group a Fenix 5s (or maybe 6s, but looks more a 5s to me) user got readings far by even 100 meters. And being this the first alpine tour I did with the S9, I’m very very happy.

Bogdan1921

@isazi

I can confirm this. Also, last week I was one day for 9 hours on a hiking tour. When I’ve arrived at the peak of the mountain, the wrote altitude of the peak was exactly the same with the altitude from the watch and I was really impressed

Maryn

@isazi what gps system did you use ? Beidou?

isazi

@Maryn since it became available, I’m always using GPS+Beidou. Maybe GPS alone would be enough, but I’ve had good results with this setup so far and I’m not changing it for now.

lexterm77

@isazi said in Pros/Cons of Suunto 9 BARO * ONLY * be fair and polite!:

@Maryn since it became available, I’m always using GPS+Beidou. Maybe GPS alone would be enough, but I’ve had good results with this setup so far and I’m not changing it for now.

I used gps+beidou and tracks were wobbly like a drunk going home on St. Patrick’s day. I turned off and use gpu only and tracks became clear.

A Former User

@lexterm77 my experience is following: the best results I get, when I am waiting a few minutes when I got GPS conformation… I have always something to do… shoes etc. I think more satellites will connect then. I also try to connect in free areas and not in the woods. I think these start conditions are leading to best gps, even if you are afterwards in the woods… only connecting fast in not so free areas is not so good… Think this is also not Suunto specific…

Especially do this, if I am following in mountains or in the woods. Not if so much when I am running in flat free areas…

@Brad_Olwin @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos right?

lexterm77

@mountainChris

My experience with trail running or hiking along a side of a river dam in heavily wooded area is best with gps only, any other combination reveals worse results as eastern sky is obscured. I always wait for gps lock, and I always start my hike on same stone and finish it to have a reference. I don’t know why is wobbly when it connects to more satellites. My ascent descent don’t match either if i use combination of gps-s, where gps only matches within 1m.

A Former User

@lexterm77 Do you have a statistic behind it? Could be also random…

I think there is a difference waiting for gps lock and waiting after gps lock further a few minutes if you plan running in woods. And also connecting first in free areas… I think I read this somewhere. Also just my feeling with runs…

lexterm77

@mountainChris

I’ve figured it out, its nothing to do with a watch.

florin2528

@zvonejan nice, thank you. I will try it.

florin2528

Anyone knows how to get altitude during Trail Running?

sartoric

@florin2528
What do you mean for “get altitude” ?
In the results ? Watch ?