Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware

aeroild

Winter has come to my part of the world. The temperature is below freezing and when doing outdoor activities several layers of clothing are needed. So now I really miss the support for external HR sensor! When doing cross country skiing for instance, I now have to choose between wearing the watch over my jacket sleeve and seeing the display bot not measuring HR or under my sleeve and not seeing the display. I understand that using an external HR sensor means more battery consumption, but please Suunto, let that be my choice to make.

Aleksander H

@aeroild I’m having the exact same issue right now. -6 degrees celsius yesterday when I went running. I had to choose between heart rate or a visible watch screen.

brotzfrog10

@jorgefd78 only thing I want is ability to connect Bluetooth chest strap to the Suunto app on the watch. It’s completely silly that you can’t do that right now.

Ted Jenkins

@Metalmi Hear hear! This is my biggest complaint with my Suunto 7.

James Wylie

ABC (altimeter/barometer/compass) tiles would be great. The only android wear device I have seen that does that is the Casio.

isazi

@james-wylie agreed. There is a good barometer tile, often linked by Suunto in their website, but I found all altimeter apps suck quite a lot

eurohiker

ski resort maps!!

Nshkira

Autopause feature, please! It’s essential.

eurohiker

@nshkira yess!! like strava

also being able to resume an activity when having any tech issues. Activities already save in “Diary” automatically. We should be allowed to “Resume Hike” and be allowed to actually use that information so we can finish our activity after a tech issue without having to start a new one. Strava does this amazingly as well. “Diary” information/statistics save, at the moment, is completely useless and needs to be expanded on.
Personal Example of a Technology error that can happen, this issue would have never happened if I was recording with strava

Brad_Olwin

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

ski resort maps!!

They are there. Is this a request?

eurohiker

@brad_olwin Really?!?!

Yes, ski resort maps was a feature request. i haven’t seen any advertisements or review videos of suunto ski maps and the ski resorts aren’t open in France so i can’t really check.
On Garmin’st website i’ve seen them at least advertise it.
I have seen “Map Style” --> “Winter” and same in the app.

EDIT: OMG THANK YOU @Brad_Olwin I didn’t zoom in enough to see them! I was going to buy the ski tracks app from google play but this is awesome. I can’t wait to try it.
can’t believe no one has a video testing/using this on youtube

I guess I change my feature request for an offline map to be larger area than 62km.

Brad_Olwin

@eurohiker you are welcome. I think there is a reason for the map tile limit. Likely due to usability and that all heat maps are loaded as well during map sync.

Perhaps another feature you did not know, when you load a route into the watch and the watch is on a charger + has WiFi, outdoor maps will be downloaded for all routes synced to the watch.

And another map feature. If you go into SA while inside with no sport mode activated, you can set another map download area. So if you have a favorite ski area select that. The watch will download all maps for that area as well as the local area where the watch is located.

It is a very well thought out implementation of maps.

Nigel Taylor 0

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

Perhaps another feature you did not know, when you load a route into the watch and the watch is on a charger + has WiFi, outdoor maps will be downloaded for all routes synced to the watch.

I think you don’t even need WiFI (on the Watch), just a Bluetooth connection to your phone that has data access.

I purposely disabled and removed WiFi after the first set-up on my Watch, and I get the route maps downloading when I stick the Watch on charge (plus any updates to the local area and that extra offline area that you mention).

The implementation as you suggest, is really good. If I create a route and sync it with the app, I know that the map is going to be available no matter where I am.

Brad_Olwin

@nigel-taylor-0 I probably wasn’t too clear on that. I know you need WiFi for the extra downloaded area but I could be wrong, haven’t tested that in awhile.

eurohiker

@brad_olwin wow awesome I did not know that. Thanks for your help!
You should make Suunto video tutorials haha.

Brad_Olwin

@eurohiker Some of this is in the manual, the ski area information was not, I found that as you did, zooming in on our local ski area.

Seph Swain

@jorgefd78 +1 for autolap

makzam

@seph-swain said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

@jorgefd78 +1 for autolap

+10000 for autolap

eurohiker

nothing to see here…

isazi

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

I never use wifi since i have 60gb data worldwide because i travel weekly. Hotel/b&b wifi is spotty sometimes and the watch sometimes doesn’t sync instantly. It’s just another variable that i have to think about.

Share the connection from your phone to the watch via wifi then