S9 Baro Wishlist

stromdiddily

Didn’t know of any good place for putting this so thought I’d park it here and see what everyone thinks. For context, originally upgraded to the 9 from an A3 Peak and recently have been playing around with a Coros Apex.

Wishlist

Filtered notifications
Zombie notification fix
Improved battery life in “everyday wear” mode
Tone/Vibration settings by sport mode
Gesture activated back light
More watch faces and/or customizable fields
Customizable interval fields
Ability to remove breadcrumb display from indoor type activities
Increased vibration level
Ability to disable outer HR/Power ring but still track info
Ability to set multiple alarms
Ability to configure more than 3 screens for an activity
Time to recovery displayed in log book (believe this is available in A3P)

pilleus

adjustable strength of the vibration

stromdiddily

@pilleus that would be cool. Would also just vote for stronger vibrations

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

kida of a realistic wishlist if we would exclude the gesture

Mi_chael

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
Perhaps in the next firmware update?
Any news about contents and timeline?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Mi_chael, to be honest, these features that @stromdiddily mentions are not raised to much (asked by users) if you get my point. However they sound like good improvements.

I suppose May as usual for Suunto no?

stromdiddily

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in S9 Baro Wishlist:

kida of a realistic wishlist if we would exclude the gesture

Curious as to why no gesture? Feature is available on the Apex and I believe on the 935 so it’s definitely doable.

Honestly I didn’t think it would be that great of a feature until I started wearing the Apex for my early morning runs…

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@stromdiddily its not per say easy and some users can object. I have no say in this though.

That is just my observation.

stromdiddily

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos I would never say it is easy

GingerBeardMan

At the very least, it would be nice to push a button during an activity that turns on the backlight without doing anything else. Like the 1st press of the middle button turns on the backlight, after that it changes the screen

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@GingerBeardMan for now try to hold the middle button shortly. It will promptly show the options circle but will light up the screen and not go to the next

General_Witt

Compass needs to be removed from custom sport modes if the user wishes so. Imho it should be an absolute priority for all the indoor sports athletes.

stromdiddily

@General_Witt you mean the mandatory breadcrumb screen? I don’t run inside very often but just noticed that you seem to be stuck w it even if you use the treadmill activity.

Will add it to my list

A Former User

My wishlist would include:

A dedicated waypoint navigation screen like in Ambit3 with waypoint name, bearing, distance on route, ETE, etc
Dedicated button for backlight (e.g. ability to customize the lower button that I almost never use for laps)
Navigation zoom available in locked mode
Zoom (changing scale) for custom graphs while in exercise
Ability to activate/deactivate the breadcrumbs screen - don’t want to have to scroll through it during 90% of my activities.
Adjustable watch face timeout in non-activity mode (e.g. I want to be able to observe altitude or HR outside of exercise without the watch switching back to watchface after one minute).
Easily accessible recovery time graph on watch (like in Ambit3, not buried too deep in the menu).
Vo2max estimate on watch.
Allow more than 3 screens in custom sport mode.

savvase

A perfect wish list i sure hope that suunto is listening and they are willing in making this wish list into reality.

General_Witt

@stromdiddily Exactly, I cannot understand why the breadcrumb is mandatory and not automatically deactivated for all indoor sports, like indoor cycling. It has discouraged me from creating custom sport modes, I still use the factory ones that have data fields I’m not interested in.

A Former User

@General_Witt said in S9 Baro Wishlist:

@stromdiddily Exactly, I cannot understand why the breadcrumb is mandatory and not automatically deactivated for all indoor sports, like indoor cycling. It has discouraged me from creating custom sport modes, I still use the factory ones that have data fields I’m not interested in.

Yeah, the UX was clearly designed by someone who wasn’t a heavy user of previous models of Suunto watches and not an endurance athlete themselve.

I’d guess one reason is that breadcrumbs screen provides access to navigation features like compass and POIs, and even if your activity doesn’t normally use GPS it might still need navigation features. Second, there isn’t really a good distinction between indoor and outdoor sports in Spartan and S9. The GPS mode used to be a part of sport configuration in earlier models, and you could setup your sport with GPS off. But in latest models GPS mode is moved out from sport to battery mode, so in theory you can go to battery mode in any sport, even treadmill, and create a custom battery mode with GPS on. I think whether navigation is on by default should be a part of custom sport configuration - that would make sense. Similarly the default GPS mode should still be a part of sport customization, and that battery mode should come up by default when starting that sport mode.

General_Witt

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Is the mandatory breadcrumb watchface in indoor sports acknowledged by the dev team as a bug? Will it be addressed some time in the future?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@General_Witt is a bug

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@silentvoyager I might take the chance to introduce you to our UX that are endurance athletes. Eveyone has an opinion but these speculations in our forums I wont tolerate

In regards:

Yeah, the UX was clearly designed by someone who wasn’t a heavy user of previous models of Suunto watches and not an endurance athlete themselve.

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