Software update 2.13.18 for S series (S3,S5,S9)
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@surfboomerang what happened to me was that before the update altitude was +2, after the update it was -5. Since then it had no sudden drops/ups anymore outside activity. But this week has seen wild pressure changes in NL.
P.S. I am still not sure at which altitude my home is, is there a proper way to check this
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@isazi Have you considered checking the information on Google Maps for your specific location? Altitude should also be given when you enable âTerrain viewâ and then enable âview elevationâ
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@isazi shouldnât a phone capable of multi GNSS and an app displaying GPS data be enough?
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@Radu-Negoescu @Ĺukasz-Szmigiel I was just very lazy until today, living in flatland, but now according to this website I am something like -1 below sea level.
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@isazi https://www.ahn.nl/ahn-viewer
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@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Tnx, I will keep an eye on itâŚ
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@stromdiddily said in Software update 2.13.18 for S series (S3,S5,S9):
@surfboomerang Iâm down 100ft at my house in the day since the updateâŚ
Is it raining extremely hard?
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@Brad_Olwin yeah weather has been pretty crazy last few days. BUT I havenât moved around much so would have expected to see those changes come through on the baro side. Or is there a limit?
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@Radu-Negoescu it seems like elevation can be shown on very limited areas. I cannot find none of elevation numbers on google map 200 km around my living place.
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I used beidou with gps on trail run today and it looks worse than on gps only. I am switching back to gps only. I am happy with it (gps only) as it now looks indistinguishable from my A3P tracks.
I had few seconds power drop to zero on Stryd wind device on one of my non stop run activities this summer and contacted Stryd Support, they quickly replied to me that is a known Suunto9b problem of dropping connections. I forgot to mention that here on forums as beer and bourbon mixed with some curated playlists of Coltain&Miles and news put on mute with caption seemed to be more interesting thing to be occupied with than ranting on forums about power drop on a power meter loosely attached to the laces of my left shoe. Fortunately, this problem seems to have gone away by itself.
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@stromdiddily Donât know but when we have major fronts come through my elevation can change by 50-100m. As soon as I exercise FusedTrack fixes it. I donât worry too much about it. I know my house is not sinking.
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@Brad_Olwin Totally right. I noticed that too on drastic weather changes.
But to me it doesnât make sense that the watch interprets pressure change as altitude change while it is in standby/sleep mode. It knows it isnât moving, because the display turns off.Once you keep moving it, I imagine it can be harder to distinguish pressure change is due to weather change or altitude change.
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@surfboomerang The interesting thing for me is almost all of my storm alerts come while I am exercising. When I go back and check with a mountain weather station, I find the watch was correct, there was a huge drop in pressure that was fast. Our weather is complicated, I am at 1550m and a few km from me is a wall that varies from 3900 to 4300m. We have complicated weather patterns and wind and the weather can change over the period of a day or a couple hours. The other issue is work for me is 1700m and traveling back and forth is more problematic for elevations not being correct in the two places.
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@Brad_Olwin issue isnât so much w the home location but I do rely on the watch face altitude when out backpacking. Useful in making sure Iâm on the right/same level as campâŚ
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@stromdiddily The work around for this is just use the auto-calibrate feature when you are at a camp. This always restores my altitude values.
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Do you need to take watch off wrist for auto calibration?
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@lexterm77 No, but I think it may be faster if it is off.
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@lexterm77 I also tried GPS only today, but I have got a worse track than yesterday with Beidou. Will try few more times.
One interesting thing I noticed though, is that it seems (in a totally non scientific way) that I get better Fusedalti without Beidou. I will also check if this is the case in the next few days.
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With Beidou my tracks are 5 meter apart, with GPS only they are half a meter apart.
One is GPS only around parking lot, it is spot on, couldnât draw better myself.
Other one is trail run with beidou, single track trail is visible on sat image but tracks are like 15 meters apart.
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My observations with current firmware (S5) as compared to older versions:
- GPS only is universally good except in deep forests or urban canyons. Itâs as good as previously with Beidou.
- Beidou makes my tracks more âwobblyâ and in my experience is the least useful system with current firmware.
- Glonass is ok but I donât find it more useful in general everyday trainings (itâs superb in mountains though).
- Galileo - if there are enough sats available - is a monster. It struggles near dense and high buildings but in every other area itâs perfect for most of the times. I canât think of a better track precision in a running watch.
Also, âoffset locksâ happen way less often than before. It used to be a norm when changing direction (ie. 90 deg) for the track to be locked on a constant offset by 10 - 20 meters. Now it happens rarely.
It may be placebo (as everything written above ;-)) but I feel that my tempo doesnât drop as dramatically when entering wooded area. It used to drop from 6/min to 7/min only because Iâve entered the park from river embankment.
I also get an instant fix almost always.
It really is amazing.