Future S9 firmware wishlist summary

Rob33

Ideas for improving Suunto + functions:
-Possibility to display several functions at the same time (at least 2)
-possibility of launching a function after starting an activity (or even changing function during an activity)
-possibility of choosing the order of the screens (currently last screen)
-possibility of assigning (and removing) a function to a type of activity without having to do it for each new activity

-at the display level at the end of an activity, for the Suunto Climb it appears the number of climbs. But when we consult the laps, it appears the climbs and descents. When there are a lot of them we get lost, we no longer know what corresponds to the climbs and descents.
I think that the reading would be easier by separating the 2 or identifying them with a sign.
It’s a bit the same principle for Suunto Sprint.

@Rob33 in a addition to being able to toggle the pkus features on or off they also need to be made interactive. I went out with the auto-lap feature today and the problem with it is that if you don’t start a run with a loop it is no good. I had to warmup to my loop and then did mile repeats, but if I could just start the feature there by hitting the lap button on that screen it would help immensely. The other option would be to just make intervals more customizable, but we all know Suunto isn’t going to do that.

Mff73

@zrumlow said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:

@Rob33 in a addition to being able to toggle the pkus features on or off they also need to be made interactive. I went out with the auto-lap feature today and the problem with it is that if you don’t start a run with a loop it is no good. I had to warmup to my loop and then did mile repeats, but if I could just start the feature there by hitting the lap button on that screen it would help immensely. The other option would be to just make intervals more customizable, but we all know Suunto isn’t going to do that.

isn’t it the case for the loop feature ? shouldn’t you initiate it by pressing lap button somewhere, and the watch will count each loop passing near this point ?
I haven’t this watch, just remember reading this somewhere (i may be wrong though).

isazi

@Mff73 said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:

isn’t it the case for the loop feature ? shouldn’t you initiate it by pressing lap button somewhere, and the watch will count each loop passing near this point ?
I haven’t this watch, just remember reading this somewhere (i may be wrong though).

I tried it and it works this way. You press the lap button, and the next time you are “close” to the same spot another lap is marked. It should also detect loops on its own (i.e. without you manually pressing the lap button the first time) but I haven’t tried that one yet.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@zrumlow hey thanks for the

but we all know Suunto isn’t going to do that.

Actually how you described the feature (hitting the lap button to mark where the loop is) is how it works.

Additionally hitting that lap button (on the loop screen) will mark a new starting point for the loop

https://www.suunto.com/fy-nl/Support/Product-support/suunto_9/suunto_9/suuntoplus/suuntoplus-loop---lap-timer-speed-pace-power/

When you start your exercise your Suunto 9 will record the starting point and if you pass this point later during your exercise, you have done a loop.

You can also start a LOOP manually by pressing the lower right button at any stage, then this location will act as the start point of the LOOP.

cosme.costa

@Mff73 said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:

@zrumlow said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:

@Rob33 in a addition to being able to toggle the pkus features on or off they also need to be made interactive. I went out with the auto-lap feature today and the problem with it is that if you don’t start a run with a loop it is no good. I had to warmup to my loop and then did mile repeats, but if I could just start the feature there by hitting the lap button on that screen it would help immensely. The other option would be to just make intervals more customizable, but we all know Suunto isn’t going to do that.

isn’t it the case for the loop feature ? shouldn’t you initiate it by pressing lap button somewhere, and the watch will count each loop passing near this point ?
I haven’t this watch, just remember reading this somewhere (i may be wrong though).

This is exactly as it works and it works very well indeed. I tested it on monday, I did 3 loops of arround 4 km and it worked flawlessly, I was surprised how exact it was to detect the loop starting point, really, it was within a round of less that 1.5/2 m.

sealion.hr

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos manual just says “hit loop button ar any stage”. Do we need to switch to Loop screen as you day and hit lower button to mark new loop point?

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@morskilav correct the lap button at that screen ONLY acts like a marker

@Mff73 there must have been a glitch with my first use. I was getting the incorrect first split distance, but today I tried it again and it was fine for the first split.

sky-runner

@sartoric Considering that it was possible to put very simplified maps on Fenix 1 and Fenix 2 both of which had tiny amount of memory, for sure, Suunto 9 should be capable too.

http://www.gmaptool.eu/en/content/maps-garmin-fenix

halajos

My wishes/suggestions to improve navigation:

On route preview screen use the lower button to activate the navigation screen. When I’m starting at an intersection, this would let me see which way to go before I hit the start button.
When the activity is paused the navigation screen should be accessible via the middle button. This would help the orientation at an intersection if auto-pause is enabled.

SteliosP

More wake up alarms.
Gel/Food/Hydration and custom alarms during activities like Garmin.

surfboomerang

@halajos said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:

My wishes/suggestions to improve navigation:

On route preview screen use the lower button to activate the navigation screen. When I’m starting at an intersection, this would let me see which way to go before I hit the start button.

When the activity is paused the navigation screen should be accessible via the middle button. This would help the orientation at an intersection if auto-pause is enabled.

Small addition on the second point: All screens should be visible during pause

Rob33

Already asked but important:
Possibility of stopping the GPS track but keeping the chrono, so as not to disturb the distances on food supplies or stops in ultra trail. To have the total time.

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Rob33 it automatically can do that. If you don’t move it wont register GPS

Rob33

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
On an ultra trail, I sometimes stop for up to 20-25 minutes to eat, sometimes change clothes … During this time, even moving very little, the GPS marks the trail
Example:

In this case +/- 300- 400m

bart80

@zrumlow said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:
The other option would be to just make intervals more customizable, but we all know Suunto isn’t going to do that.

Why is that ? How hard it have to be implement customizable intervals.?

@Bartosz-Różański why does the sun set in the West?

Brad_Olwin

@bartula said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:

@zrumlow said in Future S9 firmware wishlist summary:
The other option would be to just make intervals more customizable, but we all know Suunto isn’t going to do that.

Why is that ? How hard it have to be implement customizable intervals.?

Suunto has done this with SuuntoPlus Sprint. Here is a Strava link to complex intervals that I ran. I did not have to set them up in the watch, I simply started by hitting the lap button once and all of the intervals were recorded automatically.
https://strava.app.link/KyP5EjOk49

@Brad_Olwin again though, this is a really barebones version of the top end of such a feature. Intensity zones must be set manually and if they change during the duration of a workout you have to go change them, with this you can’t stack different types of intervals such as working through a ladder on a track without reseting it at each interval distance. The point of this type of a workout on a watch is to set it and forget it. When I’m cruising I just want my watch to tell me to go faster or slower and not have to remember how fast or how slow or for how long.

I refuse to understand Suunto’s logic in that this is a rarely requested feature and/or the Suunto 9 is geared towards ultramarathoners so it has more ultramarathoner featuresets. If this were the case, it wouldn’t be so frequently requested by people on this forum and by word of mouth, and there would be other watches in their lineup that provide features more aligned with triathletes, 5k runners, weekend warriors.

The plain truth is it’s not a feature they will fully invest in. It was discontinued after the Ambit and th th th th thaaat’s all folks.