Live location S+ app

Maximilian Mustermann

I may be making myself a little unpopular here, but I would still recommend that users in Switzerland use the REGA app on their smartphones to share their live location. It not only shares the location with the contacts you have selected, but also with REGA, so that in an emergency, a rescue can be carried out as efficiently as possible to the last known location. The app can also be used to directly notify the REGA operations centre in the event of an emergency: https://www.rega.ch/en/our-missions/this-is-how-we-help-you/rega-app

For those who are not familiar with REGA, I would just like to mention that it is the most important Swiss air rescue service and coordinates the air rescue operations centre. In case of insufficient mobile phone coverage, alpinists can also use the emergency radio telephone (161.3 MHz).

Wilson75

I saw this Partner connection.
This can be an alternative while waiting for a S+.

Mathis . Pct

@Nikolai-Simonov can we have a beta access to the Suunto app ?

michaeleaton

Hi

Any news on this? Also, can i ask technically how you may be achieving this? As far as i can see Suunto doesn’t allow direct access to these metrics via their SDK as far as i can see? Would love to get involved if possible and help move development along

isazi

@michaeleaton being tested, I believe the OP will release it sooner rather than later

isazi

Released today

gerasimos

@isazi i use in the unknown areas record with SUUNTO APP (and with Vertical double record) for safer navigation (and is very useful bigger maps in smartphone etch…)
so the main difference with this third app?
By the way Kudos to the developer

brechtvb

@gerasimos @Nikolai-Simonov

Which developer toolkit do you have to use? Is it quite standard, with just Suunto libraries?
Which programming language is used?

gerasimos

@brechtvb I use the Suunto app with my watch SV !
I start the activity record at the same time and at the end i delete from the application the record.
It’s a “patent” for viewing big maps an my trace in real time.

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Mff73

@gerasimos
This third app is to share the GPS position from your watch, in live to “followers” or for emergencies. Watch GPS is very precise, with less battery consumption than phone GPS.
Phone will consume only data to share to “Internet” and you provide the unique link to people you want.
It is not made to record an activity.

gerasimos

@Mff73 thanks for the info man! Very useful tool

Stavrogin

Very cool. Thank you so much. I love that I can use it in airplane mode as well as a map extension. That will be great for help with maps while out in the wild. I know it will lose its “help” functions, but if I am out of cell phone range at least I will have maps with labels on them.

Nikolai Simonov

Hey everyone!
Sorry haven’t been here for months, absolutelly no time, hope you understanding!
That said, I’d really appreciate any feedback or issues you’ve encountered with the app. I can’t promise super quick replies, but I’ll be checking this thread.

Nikolai Simonov

@brechtvb it’s developed with SuuntoPlus SDK which based on ES5

Antoine

@Nikolai-Simonov Big congratulations !!! I was waiting for such feature for years ! Very good job !
Is it possible to parameter the frequency transmission ? Every 1s, 10s, 1min for example ?

maszop

@Nikolai-Simonov Thanks.
It works quite well, the configuration is not too complicated.
Two quick observations:
No easily visible link on the website/in the application to shere/view the location. Unless it is intentional at the initial stage of development so that the traffic and server load are not too high.

Standard OSM maps are difficult to read in mountainous terrain.
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Nikolai Simonov

@Nikolai-Simonov Thanx a lot, glad to hear it!

There’s a setting called “Continuous transmission” in the SuuntoPlus LiveTracking app.

When it’s enabled, the watch sends a location update every second, even if the position hasn’t changed.
When it’s disabled, it only sends data when the location changes which helps save battery. In addition, the battery mode (Performance / Endurance / Tour) set in your workout also affects GPS sampling frequency, so combining both gives you more control. e.g. you can reduce updates to roughly once per minute in low-power modes.

Tieutieu

@Nikolai-Simonov congrats for that app that we were waiting for for a long time !
I’ll test properly soon I hope.
Just to let us know : have you already an idea of battery consumption impact on watch and on phone ?

Nikolai Simonov

@Antoine Thanx for feedback!

The idea was that the person going for a run shares the link themselves (via QR code or directly from the app). But I agree it would definitely be helpful to have a more convenient way to access and share the link from the website as well. That’s something I’d like to improve soon.

As for the map style 100% agree. The default OSM tiles aren’t ideal for mountainous or outdoor terrain. We tried using some paid services with better topographic layers, but they became too expensive once we had more than one active user . So right now I’m looking for topographic data, that we’ll hosted by ourselves.