Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces

[pilleus]

Watch faces for the 3100 chip in the Suunto 7 are able to show the hand for the seconds in the ambient mode too. There are a few watch faces, which are compiled with this option.

The standard watch face “Marine” is the only one on the Suunto 7.

There are 3 apps in PlayStore, which are special 3100 watch faces:

Classic 3100
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turndapage.classic3100

Essential 3100
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.turndapage.essential3100

Calico 3100
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xyz.ivaniskandar.wear.calico

There are a lot of options to personalize these watch faces.

To activate the ambient mode just enable it in the settings of WearOS in the Suunto 7.

Enjoy!

[A Former User]

@pilleus Apps that can capture workouts using external sensors and can sync those to Strava, Final Surge, Training Peaks, etc

Ghost Racer (HR)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bravetheskies.ghostracer&hl=en_US

Sporty Go (HR, running power, possibly more)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.qooapps.sportygo&hl=en_US

[pilleus]

Useful instruments for altitude, air pressure, speed, GPS, compass:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appfour.wearinstruments

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@pilleus watch out with those ones. Sometimes they eat battery even not active. Not sure.

[A Former User]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus watch out with those ones. Sometimes they eat battery even not active. Not sure.

I think this is due to Android sensor API. You register to receive events, and you get them continuously as the watch processes inputs from sensors regardless of whether the app is running or not. So, if you put your digits into many cookie jars, the drain might become material. That assuming the app doesn’t do anything nasty or throws/catches an error.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@NickK can be. Not sure. Also guys I installed aida64

This gives a good look to what sensors the watch has.

Some of those eg pressure register as 2 , one on demand and one a waking one if I am correct.

[pilleus]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus watch out with those ones. Sometimes they eat battery even not active. Not sure.

Okay. I will have a look at it. I use only the app “Altimeter” to display the current altitude as a complication in a field of the watch face.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@pilleus oh didn’t know it ads complications way cool

[A Former User]

@pilleus Is it customized Calico or Essential? I like that watch face. Reminds of Apple Watch. But in a much better and watch-like packaging

[pilleus]

@NickK said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

Essential

[pilleus]

For barometric altitude I use the app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.appfour.wearaltimeter

The altitude can be used for complications in customizable fields of a watch face.

For settings long tap the first screen.

Uncheck all options in sensors to have the barometric altitude and adjust it to the known altitude of your location.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@pilleus said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

The standard watch face “Marine” is the only one on the Suunto 7.

@pilleus I think that is not true. All our watch faces are decomposing aka powesaving

[Brad_Olwin]

@NickK said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus Is it customized Calico or Essential? I like that watch face. Reminds of Apple Watch. But in a much better and watch-like packaging

If you want the AW version purchase the full version of classic

The complications available are substantial

[pilleus]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

All our watch faces are decomposing aka powesaving

No doubt about it. I talked about the hand that shows the seconds in ambient mode and there I found only the one watch face.

Sorry!

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@pilleus me sorry. I think the paragraphs confused me. Not the best grammar / systax nazi in town (joke)

(I ve read the post again)

[pilleus]

A very precise rain radar is available with the app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.wetteronline.regenradar

on the smartphone and the app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearablewidgets

on the smartphone and the S7.

I personalized the right middle button to show wearable widgets. In wearable widgets on the phone I choosed rain radar (screenshot 1) or weather radar (screenshot 2) as widget and configured it to fit the full round screen of the S7.

[pilleus]

To avoid the poor import of activities from Suunto to Google Fit I deactivate the option in Suunto App settings on the watch.

I let the Suunto App on the smartphone sync to Strava and import the synced activity with SyncMyTracks in Google Fit.

Then I have the activity immediately listed with all data and track on the shown map.

Works great with any other third party app (e. g. Notification&Fitness, which I use together with my Amazfit GTS for sleep tracking).

Here the details in Google Fit, the activity is recorded with Suunto App on the S7.

[pilleus]

Interval timer for sprints and more while running, cycling or swimming or everything else:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neurondigital.exercisetimer

Installation on smartphone (for creating a new training) and S7 (to start the timer).

The timer can run in foreground or background (then you only feel the very strong vibration of every circle and you are able to have a look at the heart rate in Suunto App).

I choose a training with the S7 Suunto App and then I start the timer. You can preset in the timer a time of preparation (e. g. 30 seconds), meanwhile you can switch to S7 Suunto app and start the training. Or whatever you want.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@pilleus

[A Former User]

@pilleus @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos And that’s how Suunto delivers structured workouts Can’t argue with the workaround.