Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware

JorgeFD

@Mi_chael s9 for sure. Some web resources give 1015 for my position at the moment

Brad_Olwin

@jorgefd78 There is an option to auto-reference in settings

JorgeFD

@Brad_Olwin auto-reference gets the data from internet?

Egika

Auto reference gets it from GPS position afaik.
Try switching it to sea level referenced in options!

Mi_chael

@Egika
GPS position?
For altitude not for hpa?

Egika

@Mi_chael yes, for altitude reference

kkalsi

@Metalmi - agreed. Whilst the wrist heart rate is good for cardio activities - weights and related activities are very poor. Appreciate this will hit the battery. At this stage I use Sporttracker to pair an external HR monitor for where i know HR measurement will be poor and that syncs to Suunto app. Clearly this does not show in the S7 tiles.

Would also be good to see a few more watch faces, sleep, body battery and V02. Always on low power display during running and low power location tracking are good but the other features are core to me. I hope we see them appear soon.

makzam

I posted my list in other thread:

autopause
ability to setup heart rate or pace alarms
ability to setup a time or distance targets
in the current activity (running, etc) by default the current time is showing in top, but is small size, a lot of people use glasses, please, increas this font.
add the heart rate in %
ability to add more than five tiles

Bonus: if the S7 has a barometer, why not a storm alarm?

I know I know a lot things, but dreaming is free

Egika

@kkalsi said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

@Metalmi - agreed. Whilst the wrist heart rate is good for cardio activities - weights and related activities are very poor. Appreciate this will hit the battery. At this stage I use Sporttracker to pair an external HR monitor for where i know HR measurement will be poor and that syncs to Suunto app. Clearly this does not show in the S7 tiles.

Would also be good to see a few more watch faces, sleep, body battery and V02. Always on low power display during running and low power location tracking are good but the other features are core to me. I hope we see them appear soon.

You can already buy all of these features if they are core to you.
They are already built in Suunto 5 and Suunto 9!
I don’t know if it makes sense to wait for stuff to appear on S7 - it might not happen

Bulkan

@jorgefd78 I agree about the navigations features.

Without Stryd support (natively) I don’t use the watch when I run. I know battery would drain faster but I wouldn’t mind.

Bulkan

@Egika if the s9 would had notifications without sound I could wear the s9 in the office

So is not in the s9 all.

Brad_Olwin

@Bulkan It does, there is vibration. I miss the vibration while running sometimes but it always wakes me up as an alarm and when in the office it is quite noticeable. I do not have my sound turned on at all for the S9

JorgeFD

@Egika said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

there are quite a lot low power watch faces out there in the play store

ey! do you have a list or something of watch faces tha full support low power as suunto’s watchsfaces do?

Egika

@jorgefd78 search for “3100 watch faces” in the play store.
That already has some that support the low power standby screen.

aeroild

I testet the navigation from the last update on a new route today. I really like the map based navigation! This being a new route with lot’s of intersections, I had to tilt the watch to wake the navigation screen a lot. The screen takes a sec to wake and the navigation another sec to update. Many times I just needed to check that the route still was following the trail I was on and not turning to another trail in an intersection. For checking this, a simple navigation screen without map data like the one on the Suunto 5 or 9 would do. So to make a long story short, my wish for a future update is a simple navigation screen running on the battery saving co-processor. And maybe a touch of the screen could wake up the navigation with full mapdata.

Fenr1r

@aeroild said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

Many times I just needed to check that the route still was following the trail I was on and not turning to another trail in an intersection. For checking this, a simple navigation screen without map data like the one on the Suunto 5 or 9 would do.

The grass is always greener. Read on down a bit from there for a hybrid view.

Jamie BG

@aeroild I also quite like the Suunto 9 bearing direction screen; and sometimes I do think that we need what you describe, however I don’t think it would work on the low power processer.

I do think you can assist yourself by adding lots of waypoints/cross road/reference points etc can really help (also with off route notification coming sooner) as at least you get a warning ahead of any possible change in reoute, and perhaps don’t add them where you need to go straight.

If they allowed our own description to show that would solve a lot of our problem as you could use a code or just say left turn, straight through, left fork etc and would effectively provide what you need without making any major changes.

makzam

@aeroild excelent idea!!

aeroild

@Jamie-BG I’m not a engineer or software developer so I don’t really have a clue. However, the watch is already tracking the positioning data and displaying such info as speed, time and distance in real time, so I don’t see why displaying a line and a breadcrumb trail would be that much more demanding on the coprocessor.

Jamie BG

@aeroild - would have to check some of this. I know that map view it isn’t running on the low power core processor. Would need to check when in the data screen mode, but I have a feeling that when you get a waypoint notification it is waking the screen up out of its power save mode (which I could have misunderstood, but I think that means it is boosting out of low power core into normal cores). Which makes sense as more power etc is need to display the additional data the notification tag provides, rather than just changing some basic digital numbers like a digital watch…