Suunto Spartan Ultra - How to display informations during activity recording?

[tiftif]

@Egika yes I know. The Ambit 3 was the watch I was targeting at first as it also had a better battery life, but the doubts of having it supported after the end of movescount at the time didn’t help to make the decision and I went for the Spartan instead

[Brad_Olwin]

@tiftif I found my SSU quite accurate for altitude without the need for adjustment. I do not think that you need to do an adjustment. Although you cannot see the barometric trend, the Storm Alert will function. The compass will not display but if you have a route loaded you will get a North indicator.

[fejker]

@Brad_Olwin no need for a route to display north … there is the breadcrumb display that does that - yes, not a compass but still the next best thing.

[tiftif]

@fejker @Brad_Olwin thanks both of you for the alternatives.
Just a shame they are just alternatives and not the real thing…

[Storz]

@A-Former-User said in Suunto Spartan Ultra - How to display informations during activity recording?:

@TELE-HO said in Suunto Spartan Ultra - How to display informations during activity recording?:

I know this SP (Suunto Plus) is almost completely forgotten again as nobody knows the purpose of it despite Strava effort… (or did anyone hear anything about it recently??

That is because SuuntoPlus is mostly a marketing trick at this point. Everyone would be really excited about it if there was an API, a watch emulator to test SuuntoPlus apps locally, and a SuuntoPlus store to submit and share apps with the rest of the community. That would explode functionality of the watch. Without any of that SuuntoPlus is completely dependent on Suunto developers adding new apps, and that isn’t much different than Suunto developers just adding new features directly to the firmware without SuuntoPlus.

Exactly this! A Suunto Plus app and development from independent developers would be awesome and would rocket Suunto forward in terms of usability of the 9 etc

[freeheeler]

@Storz
OMG did silentvoyager made a Suunto Exit?

[Bulkan]

@TELE-HO Sadly looks like it.

[isazi]

@Bulkan

[sartoric]

@Storz
Actually the objective of SuuntoPlus afair is to give to third party a way to develop watch “app” that can access any of the suunto watch sensors data.
So it shouldn’t be bounded to Suunto’s development

Of course it’s not for public/final user.

But I’m a poor spartan user, so … no Plus for me

[Storz]

@TELE-HO said in Suunto Spartan Ultra - How to display informations during activity recording?:

@Storz
OMG did silentvoyager made a Suunto Exit?

@TELE-HO said in Suunto Spartan Ultra - How to display informations during activity recording?:

@Storz
OMG did silentvoyager made a Suunto Exit?

I don’t get it…

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@TELE-HO yes apparently due to my reply “that I bitt hard” on his “result” of the s9 being the worse in accuracy and to pat our selfs in the back. I think… We lost one sir.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@Storz one of our “locals” deleted his account apparently

[Storz]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto Spartan Ultra - How to display informations during activity recording?:

@Storz one of our “locals” deleted his account apparently

I see. That is too bad, this is a great forum!

[freeheeler]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
it appeared to me, as you described in your answer back then, he has fantastic ideas but was too hard requesting and waiting for stuff to come… maybe a “weakness” resulting from knowing how to do it without having access to optimize it…
maybe one day he will re-join

[Brad_Olwin]

@Storz @TELE-HO @Bulkan @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos @isazi Too bad about silentvoyager, maybe I will try to find him on Garmin forums and encourage him to stay active. He made good points that were based on his observations. Speaking of Garmin, most of my coached group has them, we did 1.62 km (1 mile) intervals today and I showed my coach and a couple of others how my zones show on the perimeter on my screens. We were discussing HR during the run, I said I did not know mine but knew I was in zone 2. The answer was wow, I have to figure out how to do that. I believe the Forerunners, maybe Fenix can do this on the HR screen but not on others. My point is a main one for Suunto UI, which I find has a lot of thought going into how the feature would be used, not merely whether a feature is there or not. I have 3 fields on my interval screen (I use the lap button not the Intervals) Pace, Lap Distance and Lap Duration. The HR I can see on the perimeter zones so I don’t need a number.

[isazi]

@Brad_Olwin Garmin has a smaller gauge you can add to the top or bottom field, but I agree the Suunto UI here is better, and supports power or speed zones too.

[freeheeler]

@Brad_Olwin
the HR zone indicator is indeed fantastic! I also look mainly at the zones.
This zone topic just got me to another request for Dimitrios but I’ll post that in the appropriate thread (QS)

Thanks, I hope silentvoyager did not entirely give up on Suunto

[nseslija]

@TELE-HO I think that he must go to the ‘other side’ and see by himself that there is no perfect device, and that Suunto is, at least for me, the best you can get if you aim for reliability and accuracy…

but if you are feature driven then maybe some other brand is for you…

[Bulkan]

@Brad_Olwin The intensity zones is the smartest thing of the UI in Suunto watches. I use it for power, you can choose HR, Power or Pace. The Garmin watches don’t support power in running natively and for me is a great disadvantage.

My other favorite screen is the one with the color in the background, I tend to keep simple 2 screens and other with 7 data fields where I see everything.

[freeheeler]

@nseslija
it is true that in Garmin you can create a lot of apps to meet someones requirements better… not sure if this involves also the algorithm of total ascent and distance etc…
But I am too stupid for creating those apps anyway… one of the reasons why I enjoy Suunto a lot. Already plenty of stuff out of the box
AND Suunto team will most likely fix the issues with total ascent on rolling hills and distance… and even much more!
…but that’s a bit offtopic…