Suunto 9 Firmware Update Suggestions

Mff73

I may have lost something, I have not seen any video .

sartoric

@Mff73
Maybe it’s not lost forever

LitchiMonster

@Mff73 take a look here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/61EWd5MkKuejQERCA

Mff73

@LitchiMonster
Thanks, never seen it, appreciate !

And now, i want this feature more than before

Maryn

@Mff73 they’ve handled it pretty well
I’m looking forward to it. They say that you have to wait longer for good things :), but in this case it’s a bit excessive

Fenr1r

That’s the vid I remember: it shows a named waypoint (there’s a giveaway somewhere). Better than nothing, of course, it’s not, as yet, a POI. No sign of coordinate entry/modification (necessary if you don’t have the relevant map tiles on your phone for whatever reason). So not yet back up to even Movescount standards in this regard.

Is that tap on the screen actually adding a coord location (to the route) or does SA pick the nearest point on that auto-generated route and enable name editing? The former would seem to have the simpler potential for discrete POIs but the latter seems to be more likely.

SA seems to deal exclusively in routes: apparently, a WP will have to be “decoupled” from … something (notional short route?) … to provide a POI. And then the rest of the notional route is invisibly deleted? Curious.

sartoric

… Remember that the video was a “leak” from our Assange … just a taste

Mff73

@Fenr1r said in Suunto 9 Firmware Update Suggestions:

That’s the vid I remember: it shows a named waypoint (there’s a giveaway somewhere). Better than nothing, of course, it’s not, as yet, a POI. No sign of coordinate entry/modification (necessary if you don’t have the relevant map tiles on your phone for whatever reason). So not yet back up to even Movescount standards in this regard.

Is that tap on the screen actually adding a coord location (to the route) or does SA pick the nearest point on that auto-generated route and enable name editing? The former would seem to have the simpler potential for discrete POIs but the latter seems to be more likely.

SA seems to deal exclusively in routes: apparently, a WP will have to be “decoupled” from … something (notional short route?) … to provide a POI. And then the rest of the notional route is invisibly deleted? Curious.

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said that WP first, and then POI will come, as, as far as i remember, WP is at SuuntoDev side, the basis for the POI implementation.
I think (hope) that things will arrive with nice UI implementation (like touch, zoom, select on the screen, etc…) and after, maybe, more tech entry ways may be implemented (like coordinates).

For WP, you can plot the route and then add a WP where you see to want to put it, but you may also like to create a route, knowing the coordinate of the point you want to go (could we call it POI, before it becomes a WP ? ).
in brief, to me, and just to me, i will see what will come and react on what won’t be manageable to request enhancements.

Mff73

@sartoric said in Suunto 9 Firmware Update Suggestions:

… Remember that the video was a “leak” from our Assange … just a taste

Sorry, what is an Assange ? without understanding, and with my english level, i am afraid to imagine the taste of something called Ass_ange

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@Mff73 Assange = Julian Assange = Leakers ~= Me that breaks NDA

dulko79

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos excellent explanation

Fenr1r

@Mff73 Maybe having a new baby induces sympathetic leakage.

@Mff73 Assange = Julian Assange = Leakers ~= Me that breaks NDA

He’s now leaking about leaking, poor guy.

JorgeFD

so we need a Dimitrios who breaks NDA

Bulkan

@jorgefd78 I wonder what thinks @NickK

Andrzej Dabrowa

Waypoint names displayed (not only types),
Next waypoint name field that can be configured to be displayed on a training view (today only distance is avilable)
Dedicated view (Ambit2/3 like) with next Waypoint name, distance and direction.

ink357

Virtual partner !

sky-runner

@Andrzej-Dabrowa I had exactly the same asks so many times (in this forum under a different name and on Facebook).

Suunto should copy Garmin’s way of customizing navigation. When navigation is enabled 1-3 additional screens can be added, and fields on those screens can be customized separately. For example I customized an additional navigation screen to display next waypoint name, distance to next waypoint, and ETE. The best part is that when not navigating on a route that screen is automatically hidden. That is a simple and elegant solution - better than Suunto’s approach of adding navigation specific fields on regular sport screens.

Maryn

you can make two sport profiles. One for use with navi and 2nd without.

GNZ ct

Customizable fields in watchfaces through APP, like workout fields are done
More than one suuntoplus function at a time

sky-runner

@Maryn I did have special sport profiles with Navigation in the past when I used Suunto 9. But that is cumbersome because that would lead to multiplying of very similar sport modes. I ended up having something like this:

Trail running with HR
Trail running without HR
Trail running with HR and navigation fields.
Trail running without HR but with navigation fields.

Pretty soon it becomes unmanageable and error prone.

It is far more elegant to enable additional navigation specific screens, that are also customizable, only when navigation is enabled.