Live location S+ app

Nikolai Simonov

@safari Thanks so much for the feedback!

Thanx for sharing your ideas!, having a widget could be a very useful feature for both platforms. I’ll look into it.

As for temperature, I’ve been a bit unsure about its reliability. unfortunatelly, the SuuntoPlus platform is quite limited in how many metrics can be shared at once. I’m currently considering removing temperature in favor of more useful metrics like cadence.

Sascha Domres

@Nikolai-Simonov Thank you very much!! That was the solution! Cool that you developed that!

Nikolai Simonov

@Tieutieu You can even use it on a phone that doesn’t have SA installed at all.

Nikolai Simonov

@Sascha-Domres Great that it was a case!
I’ll definitely look into improving the UX to make this part less confusing in the future.

safari

@Nikolai-Simonov @Tieutieu I took a night walk in the dense forest last night. I shared the link with my family. They tracked my current location and most importantly, even my pulse. Useful work

Sascha Domres

@Nikolai-Simonov Strange, the Ocean reports that the maximum number of S-Apps has been reached. But this is not the case. I can’t activate the Livetrack app anymore?
https://photos.app.goo.gl/KzCeguX5ySMEVyCx5

Tieutieu

Could it be possible to add a simple « pseudo » field that would be then displayed in tracking screen : not the most common case but on some races with few people to follow, it could be easier to identify the different tracking screens

Tieutieu

@Sascha-Domres I’ve add the same even if I only had one app activated. I unpinned it, pinned live app and pinned again my other app => works

Nikolai Simonov

@Tieutieu At the moment, there’s an ID field shown on the tracking screen, which corresponds to the app’s device ID. You could find it on the main screen. It’s functional, but not very human-friendly, I agree.

We’re planning to add Suunto account linking in the future and once that’s available, it will be possible to display and share your Suunto pseudonym, which should make identifying tracked users much easier in situations like races. And bring another benifits.

treizeXiii

Thank you so much for this app !!

Could I suggest that, instead of manually sharing the link every time, an email would be sent to the designated contacts automatically each time a sport session is started ?

Thank you

Y

maszop

@Nikolai-Simonov

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.

What I meant was that the website didn’t show (or I didn’t notice) instructions on how to easily do it from the app.

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.

It’s a shame it has to be an external project without Suunto support.
Suunto has all the elements (maps, user accounts, sharing options, route visualizations) in-house to do this using Suunto resources.

Sascha Domres

@Tieutieu hey, thank you, it seems to work. I will test …

safari

@Nikolai-Simonov I just did new tests. I don’t get any data in the area with the power icon in the application. Also, sometimes blood pressure information goes away.

MarcW

Wow, I just used this for the first time. And it’s really good.
Kudos on this!
I had a couple of questions…

the blue circle near the start, it dropped the track for a while, but recovered after 3minutes. I wonder if this because app/phone was connected to wifi at the office, and then when leaving it goes to cellular.
after the bridge it also lost again the signal, but recovered.
(The Suunto GNSS track does not have the GNSS dropouts showing in it’s track).
Is there a reason why watts are shown, and not Distance, I would think distance would be one of the key data fields. Or is that some limitation on from Suunto.

Again, great implementation.

Miroslava

![1000016243.jpg](Request Entity Too Large) @Nikolai-Simonov
Hi, it doesn’t want to start at all, it says that the device was not found, I have everything turned on in the app, the watch pretends to be connected but it still says that the device was not found!

Nikolai Simonov

@safari Thanks for testing and for the feedback!

Regarding the power data it only appears if you’re using a compatible power source, like a Stryd footpod for running or a cycling power meter. If no such device is active, the field will remain empty.

Sometimes HR could disappears. That’s a known issue and I’m working on a fix.
The reason is: to reduce data usage, the app only sends heart rate updates when the value changes. So if your HR is stable, it might not send anything for a while.
Meanwhile, the web UI assumes that if there’s no new data for some time, the value is no longer valid and hides it.

Nikolai Simonov

@MarcW

Glad to hear the app worked well overall, and thanks for the detailed observations.

Regarding the dropped track near the start, that’s a very interesting case. The app does use a buffer to store data temporarily if the network is lost and then sends it once the connection is restored. But switching networks is kind of edge case I that need some investigation further. Thanks for pointing that out! Let’s see…

There are some limitations on the SuuntoPlus platform: we can only expose a small, fixed number of metrics, so we had to choose carefully. But we’ll definitely adjust what’s shown based on community feedback.

btw, distance, pace, and time can actually be calculated on the frontend based on the path data, so adding that to the web view is totally feasible and already on the roadmap.

Nikolai Simonov

@Miroslava your screenshot hasn’t attached.

are your issue isn’t related to - https://forum.suunto.com/post/169035 ?

Miroslava

@Nikolai-Simonov i must first start activity and then? I try today evening and i will see thanks

Miroslava