[Inspiration] Share your app ideas

[Ecki D.]

I am thinking about building a SuuntoPlus app for MTB that shows some trail-specific metrics during a ride, for example:

climb / descent detection

vertical speed and gradient

downhill segments (duration, vertical drop, max speed)

maybe a simple trail score

An experimental idea would also be detecting jumps / airtime.

For that I would need access to motion data.
Does the SuuntoPlus Sports App API provide access to accelerometer (or gyro) data, or only to the standard workout metrics like speed, altitude, ascent/descent, etc.?

[cpinky]

@halajos Yup! I did that after my first hike with the watch, but you cannot do that while in an activity or even using the watch beyond the home screen. This would be for scenarios where you want to see one more datafield that you don’t have

[Nordic_Panda]

A Gym Tracker ️

[kaibrownie]

I was thinking about a Race Strategy App.
I’m doing Trail Running where you might want to have different Speed/HR/Power for different sections of a known GPX Track.

I once saw this for Garmin i think and thought this is a great Idea to Plan the Race ahead.

I took a quick Look at the getting started section and Love how easy it seems to get started and develop. JS + HTML is such a nice combo, I’m afraid it might be too easy or limited, but when i find some time i will definitely have a deeper look on that. With Out having analyzed it now, I’m Not Sure how Well it can be fed with the Plan from an external device. Best would be the Suunto App itself (basically this is Like a combination of Route and Custom Intervall).

[Francesco Pagano]

I know an indoor climbing app is already available, but after seeing how this works on a Garmin as a sport mode, I think it can be improved. For instance my friend was able to select the difficulty level before starting each attempt. Nothing interesting then showed on his Garmin Connect activity page, so I think a good app should also record each attempt and related details properly into Suunto App.

[Tomas5]

Thanks for allowing to develop own Suunto plus apps. I have idea for suunto plus graph app. In times of Ambit i always used one graph for HR and one for Altitude while hiking because both are intteresting for me. When i will find some free time i will look into it and if possible i will try to create simple suunto plus app that will allow to display graph for multiple values and switch between them. I didn’t study documentation yet so not sure if something like that is even possible.

[sirzacolot]

I am thinking of something a bit different - still knee deep in the documentation, but I would love an app that would sync GPS co-ordinates with my DSLR camera. There are hotshoe/cabled versions, but something residing on the watch and transmitting to the camera over bluetooth to enable geotagging without needing a phone or wired gps receiver would be great.

I think the problem will be the camera side of things though, cursory search seems that protocols are all over the place.

[herlas]

@Francesco-Pagano just FYI - @omunoz created that S+ indoor climb S+ he was early adopter

[DMytro]

An app where one could load Topo for a climb/via ferrata would be cool. Using the scroll wheel to rotate through either horizontal or vertical image of the climb would be super convenient.

[Prenj]

App which would show the remaining distance/time/ascent to a scrollable list of waypoints on the route would be really useful for navigation.

[cpinky]

@Tomas5 This would be great!