Sunnto 7 Sensor Support

Manuel Silvestri

@egika I know that it’s possible, but if someone buy an S7 and must use another app because of the lack of chest strap connection, why buy a Suunto?

Egika

@manuel-silvestri because they have the best design, awesome support, are really tough for water sports, whatever else.
Why buy anything else that is not a Suunto where your data ends up in a different platform as well?

I moved from S9B to S7, I know, I’m crazy, but I liked having the WearOS for the daily use.
I normally read the user guide before purchase any item. I knew ahead that not have Sensor Support but imagined that was only on initial release and comes later on a FW update (same with create custom intervals). I would like to log all from the same Suunto Wear app and at the moment for me the only external sensor that I would like to pair is the cadence for my bike. By this reason I don’t want to use another external app than Suunto Wear app.

I can understand that it’s a battery life matter, but it’s better if this is available and the user can choose. I can understand also that my S7 can have an autonomy of 12 hours now, and only 3 hour if have paired a cadence sensor, to say anything as example. No problem with this. I could evaluate if this is useful or not and take my decision based on my use or activity of this day. Maybe the customers that prefer or like to pair the HR chest strap think the same. If I need to recharge my S7 twice a day or after each activity, no problem, I can decide if I need this sensor or not.

Some Suunto decisions are strange: remove the dark theme on SA, remove the m/s units that I had available on my old A3P and now no, etc but I still have confidence on the devices and I had worse experiences with other brands.

pilleus

I moved from S7 back to SSU. Because I like WearOS too, I have a Oppo Watch (46 mm) to gather heart rate, steps (natively in Google Fit, the health app of Oppo is deactivated by ADB) and show notifications during the day.

S7 without sensor support is not suitable for cycling (mounted on the handle bar there is no heart rate and no data from the power meter) and not for kayaking (on the wrist no option to read the data, on the deck no heart rate).

So I use the SSU with connected power meter and heart rate from the Oppo watch (heart for bluetooth). By the way the Oppo watch has the best wrist heart rate reading I ever had with a watch. No difference to a Polar chest strap or OH1. And the battery usage is equal to the S7, the display brilliant and the charging time unique (30 minutes from 33 to 100 %).

Sleep tracking without any watch, because I use Google’s Nest Hub and have a detailled database in Google Fit, which I need for my health insurance.

So far my setup and I can wait for new options coming from Suunto and Wear …

aeroild

Now Spotify with offline music has come to Wear OS, which is great. I assume we got this watch because we want the smart watch features like playing offline music. We want this feature even though it means shorter battery life. So shouldn’t Suunto now realize that we are also willing to accept shorter battery life if we get the support of an external HR sensor? If we want best battery life we use the internal sensor, if we want best HR data we use an external sensor. Simple as that.

diynevala

I read most of the discussion here, and I find it very depressing that Suunto is just dropping S7 like a failed concept.

Most of the discussion was about the wrist OHR being inaccurate, and external HR draining battery.

To address the accuracy of OHR, I have not had problems with it. But practicing judo, there are strict rules against watches and jewelry. Therefore I really, really need external belt support!

As for the battery drain, you can only do judo for 2h max. at a time, it does not matter if it drops from 80% to 40%. Actually, when the watch is not on my wrist, it should not use the OHR therefore saving that bit of energy?

Just do something to remedy this! Make an extra Wear OS app, call it Suunto external HRM recorder! It does not have to have ALL the functionalities of the main Suunto App, it just needs to save the data in the same system!

Alternatively, make importing data easier. I have NO IDEA how to move data from any app to Suunto. IS THERE SUCH POSSIBILITY?

DMytro

@diynevala you did try using other apps to record an activity with an HR belt, right?
Btw, if it’s only a belt your wearing, why not record your training with suunto app on your phone? You’d save a ton of battery on your watch and stay inside the ecosystem, so no need to hassle with an activity import afterwards.

Egika

@diynevala just link your Suunto belt to the Suunto App and record your Judo session with the app directly - phone next to the mat

JANTIKAINEN

@diynevala or get a Polar OH1 or H10 belt with memory function and then transfer the activity from Polar Flow to Suunto using SyncMyTracks etc.
That’s what I’m currently doing when playing basket ball where watches are also not allowed on court.

Piotr Piotrowski

@pilleus said in Sunnto 7 Sensor Support:

I moved from S7 back to SSU. Because I like WearOS too, I have a Oppo Watch (46 mm) to gather heart rate, steps (natively in Google Fit, the health app of Oppo is deactivated by ADB) and show notifications during the day.

S7 without sensor support is not suitable for cycling (mounted on the handle bar there is no heart rate and no data from the power meter) and not for kayaking (on the wrist no option to read the data, on the deck no heart rate).

I have been trying to use Suunto 7 for cycling, but after 2 weeks I have already given up. Sensor support works only via 3rd party apps, so at the end of the ride I have data in two separate recordings that cannot be merged / analysed correctly. I cannot even connect Suunto’s own product - Suunto Bike Sensor. Handlebar mount without external sensor does not make any sense either - no heart rate. In short - if you are after a watch to replace your biking computer just look somewhere else (unless Suunto comes up with an update).