Suunto Smart Heart Rate Belt for indoor Pool swimming
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Hey @Egika & @herlas I’ve used the strap a bit and I have a follow up question, maybe you’ve experienced a similar issue. I’ve had 2 swims already with the strap and everything was great, I’ve followed all the instructions you gave me, but this third time something happened at the end of the workout, last 3 minutes of heart rate got lost somehow:
not sure if i did something, I don’t remember that the strap moved or anything like that. When I finished the workout I paused the watch, got out of the pool, saw the heart rate on the paused screen, and then I ended the activity - and it all synced fine…
On that note, what would happen if I were to take the strap off mid swim? To readjust it for exaple. Would it turn itself off and lose the heart rate data?
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@turbogolub I did experience some similar situations where part of HR was lost, never really found the reason, my thought is that somehow HR sensor stopped receiving the HR data at some point and stopped recording in the internal memory, like if saying okay I’ve stopped receiving and this is the end of the workout being saved into memory.
Reasons can be many, strap moved from the right position or bug on the internal memory management on the HR module or watch itself who knows.Once it happens, it won’t record anything after, that’s what leads me to above (in) conclusion
Fortunately it happened very few counted times so I wasn’t too worried.
As for your last q, only testing will tell the result, but I’ve always followed the instruction on the smart belt user guide, which is :
“4. Complete your activity as normal, wearing the Suunto Smart Heart Rate Belt the whole
time”Hope this helps.
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@herlas thanks for the info. Yeah I can confirm that last night I had no issues during another swim - heart rate during the whole activity was properly recorded, so all good…
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Hello all. Sorry for opening the discussion again but I wanted one minor clarification although I think I can guess based on the info. The Belt does not support connectivity to multiple devices right? (so 2 simultaneously via BT).
I am using the Polar Varity sense since it is great for swim but not that good for trail run (it often locks to the cadence). So instead of going h10 I wonder if the Suunto’s connect to 2 devices? Are there any plans to release HR that connects to 2? I am willing to wait ang go full suunto if there is any feedback. Thanks and have a nice day all.Suunto watches: Ocean, Race, Vertical (Titanium Solar Sand), 9 Baro (Ambassador Edition), Spartan Ultra (Copper Edition), Ambit 2, S6
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@Hristijan-Petreski the Suunto belt only connects to one device.
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@EzioAuditore I´m at the same situation, need a HR that connect to two devices at the same time.
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@mfreire I got the Polar H10. Much more accurate (as long as belts go) for me than the Garmin HR Pro I used to have. The Garmin has this slippery plastic that once you sweat a lot especially on hot days it kinda slips on your skin and locks to hits on the skin?! The Polar has been superb.
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@EzioAuditore when you say the Verity Sense is great for swimming, can you expand on that? The last time I tried, Suunto does not use the HR caching function, which means that, post swim, all HR data is from the watch, not the VS.
I’m also interested in why it’s not good for trail running.
Wildly off-topic here…
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@Ze-Stuart Yes. I wear both the verity sense and the watch for swimming but you can also leave the watch out of the pool since the verity sense has antenna so it can reach up to 300m of connectivity (it is meant for coaches to monitor your HR - never used it this way though since you’ll have to start the activity before going to the pool).
On the trail running: I found when running downhill on quite technical terrain with a lot of swinging arms and jumping it sometimes locks to these ‘jumps’: expected since it is also optical and analyses the blood flow. -
@EzioAuditore right but that’s in air: in water, its transmission range is ~3cm, so if you strap it to your wrist next to the watch it’ll work, but nowhere else, hence my curiosity about the caching function.
Interesting to know they haven’t been able to remove cadence lock from everything, I bet of the two of us you’re much faster downhill!
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@Ze-Stuart Actually you are wearing the verity sense on your head (on the swimming goggle’s strap). They give you special plasticy thing that goes on your goggles (https://youtu.be/ReTE0AMkWlY?t=68). I’ve never had problem of loosing connectivity to the watch so far but again I do not dive with it and have used it mostly with the Flow. I have to use it in more than a year in a pool so maybe I give it a try again and have more feedback. Otherwise I think this will work for sure: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/1c1dek7/recording_hr_in_apple_swimming_workouts_with/
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@EzioAuditore interesting. So I’ve not bothered, based on how I believe Bluetooth propagates through water. Did you have wrist HR disabled? Even with 300m in air, I can’t see it working in water, so my hypothesis is that they had some connection, some of the time, and the rest was wrist.
For the record, Form goggles, v1 used the Sense for HR, and it had to be on the goggle strap, on the same side as the computer package, otherwise it wouldn’t work.
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waiting for @EzioAuditore to say either:
a) forgot to mention, I use my Polar watch for this lol
b) I don’t do underwaters at all
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@herlas I did have polar vantage v. Didn’t use it for pool swimming. Lovely watch.
Underwater in the pool is how much according to you? I did swim with the verity sense (on my head) + Suunto 9 Baro on hand without apparent problems. Swimming is not my prime sport I do practice it occasionally. Have not tried it (verity sense) with recent watches for swimming, once I do I will comment further. -
@Ze-Stuart I never disable OHR on the watches. It is my understanding that once connected to HR belt even if the connection is lost the OHR will not take over (will try this on my next run - start with belt and remove it to see if the OHR will kick in). In the reddit post there are people that didn’t have any problem swimming with the verity (or the H10) and the AW (even if not close to each other).
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@EzioAuditore Bluetooth is lost as soon as you’re in the water right, if you managed to swim and keep top of your head completely out all the way, that means you don’t streamline underwater after each wall turn for 3 or 4 secs, you don’t swim breaststroke, backstroke etc
I get what you’re saying, no worries.
On your last comment, it has been discussed before and there’s no auto switch source for HR, power when the external device stops for whatever reason. -
@herlas Unfortunately I don’t have put much thought if and when the BT connection is lost
Was it lost and re-connected after some sec? Probably. If @Ze-Stuart is in the EU I can of course send him my verity and he can test it as much as he likes before deciding if it suits him I use mostly H10 now, so if this helps him investigate I am more than willing to sent it. -
@EzioAuditore ah I… Might have a Verity Sense, but thanks! I have quite the collection of HR monitors, fortunately my partner is understanding.
The weirdest I had was when I had my Suunto paired to a Whoop, and after a swim the watch synchronised with the Whoop and downloaded the data, behaviour I’ve only seen with the Suunto chest strap. Neither Suunto nor Whoop can explain it.
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@Ze-Stuart I know
Thankfully my partner also understands (or she ignores me)
