System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1

[Bulkan]

Nice update. The navigations feature are great and finally the crash bug is solved.

We have a great community, always pushing and asking for more. If the S7 supports my Stryd I will use it 95% of the times in the daily life. I’ve asked Stryd for a WearOS app but…

But I think is more important for the user of S7 have all in Suunto app. HR/steps…

That’s just me, I can’t imagine what thinks in Sweden, Norway, Japan… each user wants the features which thinks are the most important or useful and with that feedback Suunto delivers our beloved Suunto’s.

Better watch, new features and more to come. But remember, you run with your legs, look up and enjoy the views! The watch is your partner, a better partner today.

[Aleksander H]

@Bulkan said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:

That’s just me, I can’t imagine what thinks in Sweden, Norway, Japan… each user wants the features which thinks are the most important or useful and with that feedback Suunto delivers our beloved Suunto’s.

I think I speak for all Norwegians when I say the thing we want most is for our Suunto 7 to be able to slice brown cheese when out in the wilderness!

[iTomB]

1300 taps further still nothing here in Belgium…

[Bulkan]

@iTomB I’m in the doctor, here we are some folks with tendinitis in elbow and fingers. All are wearing the s7. We don’t speak, only look at our watches.

[Aleksander H]

@Bulkan said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:

@iTomB I’m in the doctor, here we are some folks with tendinitis in elbow and fingers. All are wearing the s7. We don’t speak, only look at our watches.

Good to hear they’re still going, despite the tendinitis!

[olymay]

@Aleksander-H

MUST…KEEP…TAPPING
MUST…KEEP…TAPPING
MUST…KEEP…TAPPING

[iTomB]

@Bulkan LOL

[JorgeFD]

SUUNTO, PLEASE!

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[Aleksander H]

@jorgefd78 said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:

SUUNTO, PLEASE!

PXL_20210112_095308762 (5).mp4

Wonder if the waranty covers cracked screens caused by extreme tapping

[JorgeFD]

@Aleksander-H

[Aleksander H]

@jorgefd78 said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:

@Aleksander-H

If it’s built like me, I’d say it should crack any moment now

[Jamie BG]

@Brad_Olwin I don’t disagree with you Brad, however when you look at the market there is a gaping hole/niche that is just waiting for someone to fill it. And as others have pointed out - the company that finds the best solution to that gap is going to coin it.

The suunto 7, apple watch, Garmin Vivoactive/Venu come the closest to filling that gap - a combination full smartwatch with good fitness. And i agree - out of of those i do think the S7 is the closest to filling it. And while my climate isn’t an issue and the exercises I do make it unlikely I will resort to a chest band (but that may change, and then I would buy the suunto one in all likelihood - as I like to match my hardware), I fully understand why people need an external HR band, also lets face it that for HIIT training the built in HR reader is woefully inacurrate.
But would also agree that suunto app should have 24/7 HR reading built into it (preferably with option to set frequency), and sleep tracking, but should also enable ability to use external HR (as pointed out google fit and a couple of other apps cater for it).

[Aleksander H]

I’ve always wondered why Google didn’t make sensor support a native feature of Wear OS. With native support for ble hrm devices, apps on the watch wouldn’t even need to care about bluetooth. They would just query the relevant api for heart rate, and Wear OS would take care of the rest. They could have done the same for other sensors as well making life as a developer much simpler. It’s not like music apps have to implement their own support for bluetooth headphones.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Aleksander-H there is .

Of course there is native and even google FIT can record via that.

[Aleksander H]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos really? I thought that support was only via the google fit app, not natively in the Wear OS platform.

Just to emphasize, by native I mean native support for bluetooth based hrm, not just the sensor on the back of the watch.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Aleksander-H the stack is there afaik. Other app ie ghostrunner use that.

Now it depends on what you talk about “native”

Currently the main and power hungry processor of the s7 handles the BT Stack. So when you use BT your watch’s processor is being used all the time resulting to some battery toll.

[Aleksander H]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos interesting. This is more complicated than I thought. Guess I’ll go do a little digging in the wear os dev docs. Thanks for correcting me :).

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Aleksander-H FYI there are actually apps on the S7 that can also broadcast. So you could use the S7 to breadcast it’s OHR to another watch or platform for HR.

More over for others to know here, we as Suunto/Movesense have run the sensor (EGC) on S7 as a separate app

https://www.movesense.com/news/2020/06/connecting-movesense-to-suunto-7-smartwatch/

Read and enjoy

[Mi_chael]

Update in progress…!

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[Aleksander H]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in System update – PXDZ.201119.005.A1:

@Aleksander-H FYI there are actually apps on the S7 that can also broadcast. So you could use the S7 to breadcast it’s OHR to another watch or platform for HR.

More over for others to know here, we as Suunto/Movesense have run the sensor (EGC) on S7 as a separate app

https://www.movesense.com/news/2020/06/connecting-movesense-to-suunto-7-smartwatch/

Read and enjoy

That’s incredibly cool (can’t believe I just said cool)! Thanks for the link! I used to do android dev work a couple of years ago, but haven’t touched it in a while. Might build a few terrible apps for Wear OS when I get the time.