May Transition Update

[margusl]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in May Transition Update:

@margusl this is A MAY THREAD

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos , this is also the latest pinned thread about transition.
That’s why people are coming here to complain about lack of communication.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@margusl Ok but that is how the forum did it with shorting. The Last APRIL post here is in my email. Sorry but what are talking about here?

[margusl]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in May Transition Update:

Sorry but what are talking about here?

What about updates in January 2020, April 2020?
(I don’t get the point for April 2019 update/mail, I have it listed too… but that’s OK)

Transition update mails stopped in December 2019. Most targeted people have no idea that Suunto has quietly published few more updates in 2020 and that they should now reach out for this information themselves even though those previous mails promised to, quoting the Important Digital Service Update :

We will keep you updated on these coming changes

All the “read more” etc links in those mails are also expired by now (“This link has expired. Please contact the sender of the email for more information”)

Notifications in Movescount mobile app are visible only for Ambit3/Traverse/Vertical users and it’s just a vague reminder to move to Suunto App, not mentioning anything about Suuntolink nor the role of movescount.com after next few(?) months. Well… maybe there’s some super-informative content popping up in Moveslink2 when Ambit/Ambit2 are connected to the cable, but for some reason current Moveslink2+movescount-com users seem to be clueless about switching to Suuntolink+SuuntoApp+Movescount-com combo. When running Moveslink2 without connecting a watch there’s no information about already effective nor upcoming changes.

[Egika]

@margusl there is definitely room for a FAQ on the Suunto Website regarding the transisition. Even more so since A3P is still actively sold.

[Fenr1r]

Thanks to the automatic link creation for .coms, I was quite excited to see that there were now two websites devoted to the subject. Possibly @margusl’s own creations. Apparently not. Damn.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@margusl said in May Transition Update:

What about updates in January 2020, April 2020?
(I don’t get the point for April 2019 update/mail, I have it listed too… but that’s OK)

Exactly.

We can move this to a new thread if that is the case. More important, also Suunto decided not to support anymore the forum as the prime source of feedback about the transition. That is why also further updates are not listed here as no user feedback was needed (decisions taken)

[margusl]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in May Transition Update:

More important, also Suunto decided not to support anymore the forum as the prime source of feedback about the transition. That is why also further updates are not listed here as no user feedback was needed (decisions taken)

OK … maybe someone should send a memo to the group managing transition pages.
And perhaps turn off anonymous access to this forum section so it would not come up as one of the top google search result about transition thingy ?

Though the current thread issue only sneaked in to explain why transition update issues are discussed here and not somewhere else.

Problem itself remains - Suunto communication towards existing users or lack of it, there have been no transition newsletters in past 8+ months, for many this means there are no updates on this. Unless… reducing coms is some kind of shady PR stunt to speed up the retirement of legacy devices?

[margusl]

@Fenr1r said in May Transition Update:

Possibly @margusl’s own creations.

Sorry, those are just my personal happy places. 24/7 streams of rainbow puking unicorns wearing Ambits, kittens playing with structured intervals in Movescount app and the like. But I can share - gimme access to your hosts file and get ready for some trippy content [:

[Fenr1r]

@margusl Sounds joyous or nightmarish, depending upon exactly how the unicorns are wearing their Ambits.

Nevertheless, let me provide that access. Always up for a trip - so generous of you. For security’s sake, I’m embedding it in an entirely innocent executable which might (well, will) show a FP for trojans and ransomware in pretty much all anti-malware. Ignore and run. Just to be double-secure, do it with admin privileges.

Now, what’s your email … ?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@margusl why do that? The previous discussion and updates are also available here. Where is the issue?

When Suunto posts another transition update not a statement that it goes according to plan it will be also here.

[johngenx]

Haven’t read the 100’s of posts in this thread, so if this has been covered, apologies. I recently bought an Ambit3 Peak, and I’m using the Suunto App, and coming from the Garmin Universe, I’m shocked there’s no web based analysis tools. Movescount looks fine, not sure why there’s this urgency to fold it up. Weird. So I’m exporting my .fit files and then loading them into Garmin Connect.

Seems odd to me to use a direct competitor’s web analysis tool - is Sunnto going broke and can’t support their products with web tools? Good thing I bought my watch on sale, don’t have too much invested. No way I’d buy an expensive Sunnto watch after now seeing how they interface with data analysis.

[isazi]

@johngenx you are right in saying that, with MC gone, there is no official Suunto web service. It seems that Suunto strategy is focused on mobile.

If you like Connect use it with the fit files exported from SA. I personally use Quantified Self and Runalyze, plus Strava for the social aspects.

[lohtse]

@isazi said in May Transition Update:

Quantified Self

HIGHLY recommend Quantified Self… Dev is great too… SO hopefully if will go from strength too strength.