Update – Heads Up After a Windows Update
Just a heads-up for everyone: Windows Updates may silently replace your manually selected FTDI Bus driver with the outdated Suunto version again. Super helpful, right?
How to Spot This:
Open Device Manager. If you suddenly see a
Suunto Sports Instrument with a small warning icon under:
Ports (COM & LPT) or Universal Serial Bus controllers
…then congrats, Windows “fixed” it for you.
The Fix:
Right-click on Suunto Sports Instrument
Select Properties
Go to the Driver tab
Click Update Driver
Choose Browse my computer for drivers
Click Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer
Select Have Disk…
Navigate to your unzipped FTDI driver folder and choose ftdibus.inf
Hit OK, then choose USB Serial Converter from the list
Click Next, close everything.
️ Note on SuuntoLink:
SuuntoLink might still throw a warning that an “FTDI Driver is needed.”
Just click the little to close it.
(Pretty sure it just searches by driver name rather than checking if the thing actually works.)
Suunto Please
I don’t know if I’m the only one here who’s annoyed, but if others are also tired of this driver mess, maybe it’s time to bring out the pitchforks and torches.
Suunto—it’s probably a day’s worth of work to update that USB driver.
For now, that post’s sitting at like 130 views—maybe most people just disable Core Isolation, don’t use SuuntoLink, or gave up on these dive computers altogether. Who knows. But hey, if this workaround helps even a few folks, that’s a win in my book
