Suunto 7

[Nigel Taylor 0]

@bulkan Not sure this makes much difference in real terms.

Suunto already have tiles & the ability to jump into the Suunto workout diary etc.

So - all this change is really going to benefit is potential enhancement for any 3rd party apps?

[Aleksander H]

@nigel-taylor-0 it might mean that its now easier to create tiles than before, which might increase the likelihood of us getting more Suunto tiles.

[Jamie BG]

@aleksander-h - would agree on that. Would be nice to have a daily tile with sleep tracking, Daily HR- loads of tiles that I can think of.
Plus suunto could now add those via playstore, instead of having to publish via firmware.

But would love to see more from google for calendar/ agenda/ reminders.

Think of Garmin eco system - effectively tiles.

[Aleksander H]

@jamie-bg The suunto app gets delivered via firmware doesn’t it? I’m guessing its quite well baked into the firmware to prevent people from extracting the apk and installing it on non-Suunto devices. If I’m not mistaken, the tiles themselves follow the app they belong to.

[pilleus]

@aleksander-h it’s no problem to install e. g. the watch faces on any other WearOS watch.

[Aleksander H]

@pilleus I’ve seen watch faces get mentioned. Never heard of anyone managing to move the Suunto app over though.

[pilleus]

@aleksander-h you can extract the app, install it on another watch, a library is missing to run it. For a developer it should be no problem to fix this.

[Jamie BG]

@aleksander-h - true it is baked in, but if it has API (like I suspect it does) you can probably pull tile data for it.
And when you publish it on playstore you can limit it to model as well as country, so you could limit to suunto watches only.

But yes like anything in android, if you have enough dev skills its possible to pull stuff from apk/firmware and install it another watch, and while you could probably due that for suunto app, I suspect it may crash/not work properly due to what is built into the firware (thinking of power tilt saver for example as you are unlikely to pull that - thinking of how the suunto app, and other bits are integrated/adjusted from standard firmware, and based on this I would think you would have to flash the whole firmware onto the other watch to prevent crashed, and am not sure how feasible this would be due to potential built in to preventions.

[Kiriakos Chaldezos]

We know if suunto 7 will come with 4100+ chip in the near future?

[Aleksander H]

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[Bulkan]

@kiriakos-chaldezos said in Suunto 7:

We know if suunto 7 will come with 4100+ chip in the near future?

[Kiriakos Chaldezos]

@bulkan

[macdav]

April is now!

[pilleus]

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/useful-things-to-do-with-wear-os-on-suunto-7.4101627/

[Aleksander H]

Some might find this usefull.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WearOS/comments/mo2jmt/new_app_wear_battery_monitor_is_an_experimental/

It’s an app that attempts to identify the cause of battery drain.

[Aleksander H]

@macdav said in Suunto 7:

April is now!

Given how infrequently the S7 measures heart rate, I must admit I’m very sceptical of how accurate sleep tracking and body resources will be.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@aleksander-h first of all, any other measurement outside of sleep , regardless the regularity it’s pretty much “random sample” (were you washing dishes with a high HR or just at the couch?).

During sleep even if a watch would measure every 2 mins, vs 5mins the difference would be little as the subjects state (you sleeping) is pretty much the same.

That said if I recall correctly , it might be continuous (I am not 100% sure but that is my gut feeling)

[JANTIKAINEN]

@aleksander-h
But will the HR be more frequent with the update.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@jantikainen the HR measurement is from Suunto now and not from GFIT

[JANTIKAINEN]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Excellent!