Pause and track of and activity
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Hello everyone!
Why when I put in pause and activity and resume it some time later, the S7 create a straigt line between the last point before the pause and the first after resume it as part of my activity track? Should be more logic that this line not exist, right? or I’m wrong?
Would be good if I can decide if I would like to include or exclude this vector (my preference, or directly exclude).
Thanks!
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@flypg Most services that I have used in the part do this straight line, with the assumption being your forgot to take off pause or whatever.
I think they feel that if you didn’t want that jump, or to show it two seperate pieces you would stop and start again.Problem is there is always going to be two requests - those who want the missing data as forgot to unpause, those who don’t want the missing data as its intentional.
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@jamie-bg Thx, can be logic also, as you say, two kind of users and if almost everyone does this, not mean that is correct. I feel more logic that avoid this lapse because intentionally I not recorded.
The autopause function should be a solution to eliminate the possibility of this kind of error of the user forget unpause the activity, but it’s not available for S7
For me It’s more consistent to recurr to and external tool to fix an error, than to fix an intentional instruction. Normally almost all softwares works based on intentional instruction, not based on the possibility of wrong input from the user.
Obviously, if from setting we have the option to decide between two options, better, everyone happy :), but it’s not the case -
@flypg - as you stated you could always use an external tool to fix that error.
ps - while auto pause/unpause can be great, it doesn’t always work well, just as the auto tracking function doesn’t always work the way you want to.
I disabled these functions on other watches after it kept on recording portions of a train trip as a running session. Train was crawling along due to issues, or or coming into station etc and kept on recording it as tracked activity. -
@jamie-bg Yes, I can use it but I not like to use when I do in the correct way
I not had problems with auto-pause on my previous watchs.
Yes, sounds logic, is a error from user, the watch can’t recognize that you taked the train or the user need to think in advance if the activity or kind of activity could cause troubles with autopause. For example for flying activities, or even on the water, I prefer the autopause OFF. -
@flypg said in Pause and track of and activity:
@jamie-bg Yes, I can use it but I not like to use when I do in the correct way
I not had problems with auto-pause on my previous watchs.Auto-pause would be different because if you moved from one place to another, then it would unpause.
What you’re doing is manually pausing, moving, then unpausing…pretty sure MOST other brands of watch would insert a straight line jump in that case, rather than a gap?
Its ‘an activity’. If you wanted to insert a gap and introduce some movement that is untracked (like travelling between stages in a car rally?!) then it would be better to ‘stop’ and create a new activity from the new starting location surely?
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@nigel-taylor-0 Yes, it’s possible, different sights of view. For me is the same activity, maybe I like to not expose some part of the track, or not like to count this segment, anything cause. Obviously I could make two different activities and merge them on QS.
I’m pretty sure that I did this with a old Samsung Frontier, but maybe I’m wrong and think wrongly in the concept like an “GPS Tracker”. -
@flypg Or maybe you could create a manual lap…do whatever it is where you want to move but not have it as part of the activity, then tag another lap when you start on what you want to be tracked again.
Then just delete that section in GoldenCheetah (or QuantifiedSelf etc if that has the similar capability) ??
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@nigel-taylor-0 Thx, yes, exactly, exist multiples approaches for the same, I tried to avoid them to have the correct track directly out from the watch
