Export POIs from Suunto 9

[surfboomerang]

@André-Faria Extracting as in syncing from watch to app? Yes it does.

[margusl]

Extracting (as getting a massive list of POIs to use in some other tool or device without a lot of rewriting or tedious copy-pasting ) is possible if one uses beta on rooted Android and can extract those pois from app db ( https://forum.suunto.com/topic/5543/android-4-33-generic-comments/64 )

OP is (or at least was) on ios.

[pavel.samokha]

Can we have a badge “Hacker” for this guy @margusl ?

[djibarian]

Can we extract the POIs from inside the watch simply with a hammer?

[djibarian]

@isazi I think you said the same 2 years ago, that the functionality was in the beta.

[sartoric]

@djibarian said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

@isazi I think you said the same 2 years ago, that the functionality was in the beta.

He , as we, probably said that the feature was coming (so probably was alpha test) but now you can see your POIs in SA beta

[djibarian]

@margusl Yes I am on iOS but I wouldn’t mind connect the watch to an Android device if that would do the trick. But do you need also root the device?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@djibarian 2 years ago the feature was created . @isazi is here about 1 year like you.

The feature is recently on beta and actually now it’s rolling out on production of the Android app

[sartoric]

just to show images … as if doesn’t exists on the internet, it doesn’t exists

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/5543/android-4-33-generic-comments/2

[djibarian]

Ok let’s calm down. If the feature is there I will be happy to give it a try (assuming I’m wrong thinking that it was created 2 years ago, went to alpha 1 year ago, beta this year and in prod at the end of 2021). Only saying that this transition is taking too long and is not ideally done.

[sartoric]

@djibarian
Yes

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@djibarian are you on Android ?

[djibarian]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I use Apple stuff daily but I have Android phones and tablets and Windows laptops too.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@djibarian

join us at the beta:

https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.stt.android.suunto

Then on one of your android devices pair the watch. The app will pull the pois from the watch save them to the could and show them on the map.

You can also create etc.

Then just wait for iOS (if that is your main OS) to get that feature. The iOS app when enabled will show also the POIS synced via the Android app etc.

[djibarian]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Thank you very much, that’s good news! Will join later.

[djibarian]

Tried the beta and managed to sync the watch with the Android phone and see the POIs in the app. However, and correct me if I’m wrong, now the POIs are both in the watch and the app, but still no way to extract them from there. So what’s the point of this new version?

[Mff73]

@djibarian said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

now the POIs are both in the watch and the app, but still no way to extract them from there. So what’s the point of this new version?

correct, and this version is the first with POI sync management between SA and watch.
Before that, only Movescount was able to do that. : now we can avoid using MC for POI.
But, if your goal is to share these POI from outside SA to other people or 3rd party app, then it is not yet implemented.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

I think movescount was able to export the pois only via the export all data, that is available once a week?

[djibarian]

Exporting data with MS was a pain, as you had to request it and wait for an email to arrive to your inbox which would have a link to all your data, even if you were interested only in the last POI, or the last track.

It seems that this is a philosophical matter, in the sense that Suunto doesn’t care about theirs users being able to access THEIR (user’s) data in THEIR (user’s) watches. Otherwise this functionality would be #1 in the list very long time ago (now you can save a track as a FIT, which is not very convenient if you want a GPX, but at least you can export it somewhat; it shouldn’t be so difficult to add a button to export your POIs as GPX too)… Which makes me think… because GPX is a kind of universal GPS data interchange format, why isn’t that option still not available to export a track?

[sartoric]

@djibarian said in Export POIs from Suunto 9:

because GPX is a kind of universal GPS data interchange format, why isn’t that option still not available to export a track?

In fact you can.