Request: Suunto SDK

brechtvb

Re: Authorization development partner delay

It would be great if users of Suunto could themselves develop small plus applications or new kinds of statistic estimations.

A step further would allow users to create complete apps that integrate at widget level.

access to bluetooth for pairing extra devices (earbuds, candence sensors).
access to storage: mp3 storage.

This is indeed not a small step.

Garmin provides a well documented environment for this (VSCode + monkey C language).
Polar requires to file a request for access.

isazi

@brechtvb said in Request: Suunto SDK:

Polar requires to file a request for access.

Suunto also requires a request to access the API and the S+ development tools. There are already some S+ apps developed by external developers (and more coming).

brechtvb

@isazi Are you more familiar with the hard requirements. I’m not a company, if i would develop something for suunto, it would happen in my free time.

As far as i read suunto’s requirements, they only allow actual companies to get access.

note: i’m a full time employed software developer

Egika

@brechtvb I know of some freelancer who is developing an S+, so I suggest you just ask Suunto directly (maybe together with your S+ idea?)

isazi

@brechtvb that is the requirement, yes, Suunto as far as I know does not have the resources to deal with every single user that wants to develop something. But if you have a great idea, sometimes access is provided also to single developers, especially in the case of S+ apps.

brechtvb

@isazi said in Request: Suunto SDK:

Suunto as far as I know does not have the resources to deal with every single user

I completely understand this.

I will try to give it a shot. Yet, so far i don’t see any hardware or hardware-abstraction access.

brechtvb

@isazi there is a bit more information/manual online by now. But still no public access.

Suunto does not have to deal with every developer - the public api is the public api, ony companies supported is a clear policy.

I was checking for the spotify JS api for prototyping a future suunto-app. But offline replay is simply not available through public spotify-api (obviously in the end).

Spotify will ony provide such feature/permission to Suunto itself.

note: the provider of the garmin spotify app is spotify itself.