Suunto 9 Baro Route + Activities
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Got my Suunto 9B at Christmas and have recently had the opportunity to create a route (using Caltopo) and upload and upload it through the App. When doing so, the app asked the activity for which the route was being used. I selected Ski Touring as the activity and synced the watch
When I selected the route in the watch, the usual GPS/ Heart Rate acquisition screen came up (I was using the heart rate belt). It acquired both and I started the route.
As a result of both of these UI elements, I expected that the watch would BOTH navigate me on the route (which it did) but also track the activity (which it did not).
Finally, not only did I not get an activity tracked, there was nothing in the logbook when I ended the route. So, I got not activity, also, no map and no metrics. It seems like these should all go together.
Am I doing something wrong?
Also when the watch was navigating, the watch faces available were only the Map and another screen with current descent. This is not what I would expect from the Ski Touring Activity at all and the other watch faces that are available with the Ski Touring Activity (ie, Vertical Ascent were not displayed as they would be when using the Ski Touring Activity).
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@greg-bennett First, CalTopo does not export elevation data with their gpx files, which is unfortunate so you will not have an altitude route profile. I would use Gaia, FATMAP, Komoot or the Suunto App to generate your route. Second, you will need to import the route into the Suunto App and sync it to the watch. Then to use the route in an activity, select the exercise and you will see the HR and GPS fix symbols with a START in the middle of the screen. Scroll down to Navigation, select it and pick the route you want to use, select Navigate and the route will load into your exercise. You can then swipe back and start the exercise with the route loaded. This is all explained in the manual that is available on the website. It sounds as if you started from the Navigation screen, which you do not want to do if you want to use Navigation within an exercise.
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@brad_olwin ahhh, thanks for the info on Caltopo. Just getting up and running with the mapping software and also have a Gaia Account, so that should be an easy switch.
I did start from the Navigation Menu, I suppose assuming that when loading the route and being asked about which activity it was for that it would pull that in. Makes complete sense that you’d start from the exercise, then add the map.
Ok a related note, is it possible to get my track from yesterday having only used the route navigationfeature (not the activity recording feature)? We started on the route and then deviated off of it, and is like to have the final route for analysis.
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@greg-bennett said in Suunto 9 Baro Route + Activities:
Ok a related note, is it possible to get my track from yesterday having only used the route navigationfeature (not the activity recording feature)? We started on the route and then deviated off of it, and is like to have the final route for analysis.
if you have not recorded the activity, then, no
As Brad said : navigation is navigation only, exercising will record the activity and enable also navigation during recording. -
@mff73 Got it and thanks for the info. From a user perspective it seems like an number of odd odd and confusing design decisions are at play.
1 Uploading a Route, Asking you what activity to associate with the route, but that selection has no apparent impact when actually using the route.
2 Route and Activity, You can start a route, but can’t then select an activity. Again, even though you selected on in 1.
3 Routing Navigation and No Tracking, Route only navigates you, but does not give you the option of tracking same said route. It does give you the options of POIs, but typically you would want POIs + breadcrumbs.
Anyways, just some feedback for the Suunto Team if they monitor the forums.
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@greg-bennett said in Suunto 9 Baro Route + Activities:
@mff73 Got it and thanks for the info. From a user perspective it seems like an number of odd odd and confusing design decisions are at play.
1 Uploading a Route, Asking you what activity to associate with the route, but that selection has no apparent impact when actually using the route.
2 Route and Activity, You can start a route, but can’t then select an activity. Again, even though you selected on in 1.
3 Routing Navigation and No Tracking, Route only navigates you, but does not give you the option of tracking same said route. It does give you the options of POIs, but typically you would want POIs + breadcrumbs.
Anyways, just some feedback for the Suunto Team if they monitor the forums.
it is your way to understand this.
1- route is not “associated” to one activity in the app, there is a list of “suitable activities” for that route --> i imagine one day a search engine in the app to filter routes by suitable activities.3- it is the way it is implemented and once understood it fullfills all needs : navigate without tracking (in navigation mode), and tracking in activity mode.
What would bring a tracking option in the navigation mode ? a duplicated way of launching an activity ?