S9 Baro Wishlist

freeheeler

@Fenr1r
I haven’t used DND as I don’t have notifications switched on… I think it’s just a muting of notifications but for me it could also cut the BT connection.
On the other hand I don’t see the disadvantage of having BT always ready to connect. It’s not permanent and a low consumption type of BT connection

Fenr1r

@TELE-HO Good points. BT is, however, on the list of things to turn off (or minimise, where appropriate) if you want to maximise battery life. In many exchanges with Suunto support on how to get my SSU to approach its advertised specs, it was always near the top of their checklist. (They were very insistent - no matter how many times I told them I’d done it.)

A Former User

@silentvoyager said in S9 Baro Wishlist:

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.

Everything that I mentioned before still applies, except Vo2Max.

I would also very like something like Garmin’s ClimbPro.

freeheeler

@silentvoyager
this looks like a garmin app

Durri

@TELE-HO yes, i mean quick turn on Bluetooth instead of stepping through the menu.

freeheeler

there are now 2 active firmware wishlists for S9B… I did not expect this one to be active, that’s why I’ve created a new list that kind of there to list what’s not there yet… like a summary… as it says

https://forum.suunto.com/topic/3473/future-s9-firmware-wishlist-summary/49

Durri

Possibility to switch clock display to invert mode.

bbx100

@Durri I vote also for SSSWHR Baro as watch faces are the same. Some kind of a light theme for watch face would be nice. It will draw more battery, but I see better without glasses on positive watch face as contrast is better for me.White color sends more light to eyes so pupils contract and then you see better

Neal Markham

@Bulkan Second that. It was key in my Ambit 3 days. And super helpful in new cities. Please Suunto.

A Former User

@TELE-HO said in S9 Baro Wishlist:

@silentvoyager
this looks like a garmin app

Yes, because that literally is a screenshot of Garmin ClimbPro. But I’d like to have something similar on Suunto 9.

However I think the main issue is that there is no good way to switch between alternative displays without having to scroll through all of them. On Ambit there is View button for that, but on Suunto 9 there are no available buttons - out only 3 buttons two buttons are always reserved for rarely needed actions.

freeheeler

@silentvoyager
I wanted to point out that garmin has apps
and Suunto not anylonger…

A Former User

@TELE-HO Because Garmin is a smartwatch. And Suunto 9 is less “smart watch” than Ambit. It is trying its best to be a fitness tracker though.

freeheeler

@silentvoyager
I remember that I looked into the programming of garmin apps and noticed that it was waaaay to difficult for me… but something like this could be added for S-line watches in my opinion…
we’ve got some smart guys in this forum

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@silentvoyager lol really?

freeheeler

@Fenr1r
now since I’m trying to reach the miraculous 0.25%/h battery consumption and therefore have switched off everything incl BT by activating flight mode I absolutely understand your sync button request.
I don’t use an active BT connection at all and rather “waste” battery capacity for 24/7 HR than frequent sync triggered by aproaching watch to phone… I use sync once before an activity for the agps update and once after an activity for uploading.

when I recall the middle-age when I owned a Fenix 3, I remember that I pressed a button to sync thru wifi at home… (the BT device in the watch was somehow damaged and BT to phone took like half a night to sync)

freeheeler

while I’m thinking about a sync button it would be nice to have a shortcut button that opens up a customizable shortcut list.
one needs quick access to dnd, watch faces and light settings… another one prefers to toggle touch activation, alarm clock and flightmode…

Fenr1r

@Durri deserves credit for suggesting that: I merely paraphrased and seconded. But good to know you’ve seen the (10% back-)light on occasionally maximising battery potential. Good luck with the 0.25%/h goal; is that an officially specified capability?

As for the shortcuts, customisable “master” modes would be nice: each including a set of configurable button/touch assignments, etc.

isazi

@Fenr1r said in S9 Baro Wishlist:

@Durri deserves credit for suggesting that: I merely paraphrased and seconded. But good to know you’ve seen the (10% back-)light on occasionally maximising battery potential. Good luck with the 0.25%/h goal; is that an officially specified capability?

Sounds slightly over optimistic. Suunto states that the 9 can get to 14 days in time mode (so I guess without HR and sleep tracking, and not connected to SA all the time), and 0.25/hr means over 16 days (almost 17).
A reasonable number would be close to 0.3/hr.

freeheeler

@isazi
I quote @silentvoyager observation

“S9B consumed 13% of battery in 44 hours, including 35 minutes of GPS activity without HR and 1 hour of gym activity with chest HR while syncing only to MC. That is about 0.23-0.25%/hour or 5.5-6% per day.”

From my experience Suunto promised the batterylife for A3PS to be 20h with best GPS and HR but overachieved as I tested once with my older used A3P black. Hence there are expectations

What worries me a bit is that I don’t use notification whatsoever and no sleeptracking at all and I know for sure that my watch does sync only few times a day. And I don’t even get close to 14 days. When I disable BT the numbers don’t change much…
I would like to learn what uses battery and how much. I will do some tests regarding this. I will not go crazy about that and will not discuss 3 decimals… but some learnings would be nice, just to know

bbx100

@silentvoyager said in S9 Baro Wishlist:

@TELE-HO Because Garmin is a smartwatch. And Suunto 9 is less “smart watch” than Ambit. It is trying its best to be a fitness tracker though.

What’s wrong with smart watch? Suuunto 9 and Spartan line could easily be smart watches. This can only raise up functionalities of the watch and increase selling. I personally wear my spartan baro all day, it tracks my steps and so on while I’m not exercising. Actually I exercise only few hours per week and other 99% I wear watch as a smartwatch? So I don’t see any contradiction between being smart watch and fitness watch. Actually suunto 9 and spartan lines are big enough to be smart watches too…