Another issue is that, supposedly, only a fraction of users do define custom sports modes. I can’t understand why, but that came in one of the surveys

@pavel.samokha said: Can you screen record how it works? I was thinking about similar things (as well as reverse direction, which is standardized and easier to support on Android), but Google maps short urls itself don’t contain coordinates. At least redirect should be resolved, worst case latlon scraped from the web page. Which is doable, but a bit hacky approach. So it would be good to learn that some app is doing that already. I tried it again and realized that I didn’t describe the behavior correctly. When I share the google maps location with my car app, it simply says that it is sending it to the car. But it isn’t clear whether the coordinated are resolved in the app or in the car software. The car is always connected and can use Google maps services directly. Out if interest I tried querying Gemini AI about how to achieve building a route from the current location to the location in the shared Google maps link. Here is what it responded: Your app must register to handle incoming text data from the operating system’s native share sheet.Android (AndroidManifest.xml): Add an <intent-filter> to your activity configuration to accept incoming text/plain MIME types.iOS (Share Extension): Create a Share Extension target in Xcode and configure the NSExtensionActivationRule to accept text or URL payloads. When a user shares a location, your app receives a short URL payload (e.g., https://goo.gl). Because this short link does not directly expose latitude and longitude, your backend or app must resolve it.Follow Redirections: Make an HTTP HEAD or GET request to the short URL without following automatic redirects if you want to inspect headers, or follow them until you reach the final canonical URL.Inspect the Location Header: The resolved URL will typically follow a structure like https://google.com…Extract Coordinates: Use a regular expression to extract the numerical latitude and longitude values trailing the @ symbol in the resolved URL string. I then asked the AI how to make sure that the redirect URL includes the coordinates, and the response was that the coordinates should always be included. Here is the further information: https://gotoapplemaps.com/guides/google-maps-url-formats-explained/. This web page includes the converter that converts the Google maps link to an apple maps link with the coordinates. Perhaps you can further drill into it to see how it works.

@GiPFELKiND cannot answer this one

@Kraisun-Tunta There’s already a “Recovery State” that gives a percentage? [image: 1781790950535-7c6a4dd3-dfdd-4f34-a19a-70c9b0da831d-image.jpeg]

I do have a connected scale, which is capable of pushing it’s data, besides it’s own cloud, to Apple health and probably also to Google’s equivalent, but not to other platforms. The other platforms, wether it be Suunto, Garmin or Wahoo is not able to read weight data from Apple health. I don’t know if this is caused by “not implemented” by Suunto/Garmin/Others or “not allowed” by Apple. It would be so nice if different platforms are more/easier exchangeable. But I guess that would be more beneficial for the users and less for the commercial companies.

@The-Radfords said: The ability to turn off and on the auto activity tracking based on heart rating increase, gps, continuous steps increase. With the prompt on the watch to select the activity based on what it thinks you are doing. That’s a very good idea. Having switched from Garmin, I admit that this is a feature I miss.

@Steven-Limmer Yes, the movement could be sourced from Selitta, the case build by Suunto in finland. Of course a dive watch with an inbuild mechanical compass!

@2b2bff I see. Thanks for making it more clear.

@vinc14 check @egika solution. it works!

@Dušan-Ković My goal here is to try to understand your “win condition.” When you say you want “as best as possible,” then a native Suunto recording, with the possibility of feelings, ZoneSense, and possibly other things we haven’t explored yet seems the correct answer to me. For example, recently Suunto added a “ Recovery Heartrate​“ feature that when a session completes, it can continue reading HR for a minute and note how well you recovered right afterwards. Is this a requirement for you for an imported file? I can’t think of a situation where an imported file will give more information for Suunto’s ecosystem than Suunto itself provides. And I realize you don’t say “complete,” but instead “best as,” but what if one method gives you X and Y but not Z, yet another method gives you Y and Z but not X? It may be there’s no “not complete, but best,” and instead several options of various compromises. This is why I asked you “what’s your minimal success case? What are the non-negotiable you must have in Suunto?” I still don’t have those answers. I own a Wahoo Bolt computer and use the Wahoo SYSTM service, and I don’t bother to even try to connect them to Suunto. I feel it would either take a lot of manual work (go to Wahoo, do an export, then go to https://quantified-self.io/ and manually import it) which is tedious, or pay for tools like RunGap (usually a subscription fee, so that’s an ongoing cost) to do it. You can do that work yourself. Do a dual record for a limited time, and get two records into Suunto, one native and one from whatever service/method you want to do, then compare the files, and delete one when you’re done, or set up a secondary Suunto account and do experiments in parallel. Or just record with your new device and compare with historical cycle sessions where you used Suunto. I’d be curious in the results. I just don’t see the point for me and I was trying to understand what the point for you was, not pushing my dual recording solution to you. It’s not a demand for you to do things like me, it’s “why isn’t this good for you,” and “I want to keep the Race as healthy as possible” I guess is acceptable. It doesn’t provide me any additional info to guide you though. So let us know what you figure out. It’s easy to search for “sync tools” and find what’s out there, but unless someone else who has done that work chimes in, it’s most likely you’ll need to discover on your own. It’s also possible someone chimes in with “this solution is perfect for me,” then when you try it realize “hey, this is missing X” and the first person is “oh, I didn’t use that,” much like you aren’t using feeling and ZoneSense, or even the new Recovery Heartrate test, so don’t care or possible wouldn’t notice they were missing if not brought to your attention.

@Olof-Dimdag isn’t that how it works by default? I have my Race 2 always-on and low brightness, but when I click a button the brightness increases. Or is that not what you mean?

@sky-runner said: The app doesn’t even know what user zones are. Zone information does come embedded in each activity separately, but outside of an activity context, there is no such thing as user zones. This is one of those really curious things that happens with Suunto. I’m always happy when updates arrive, but sometimes with small things like these, or others I mentioned here a few years ago, Suunto seems to forget that they make watches for training…

@snow I’ve seen this post, but this is quite an advanced way to change the language. It should still be a simple setting that can be adjusted in just a few steps within the app.