Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware

Chris Van Sickle

Auto-pause in the Suunto app

after a few weeks w/ my S7 I’m really satisfied. that said I would like to see a barometric trend graph tile as in my A3P (automatic profile with the possibility to manually correct altitude and/or by using gps). That’s all.

olymay

@walker said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

after a few weeks w/ my S7 I’m really satisfied. that said I would like to see a barometric trend graph tile as in my A3P (automatic profile with the possibility to manually correct altitude and/or by using gps). That’s all.

You can use an app called Baro Trend that will do this. Hope this helps

Thanks @olymay,

I know that app but I would prefer the same algo used e.g. in the Suunto Core to adjust pressure/altitude

“When the device is moving 5 meters in altitude within 3 minutes, the ALTIMETER
profile is activated. When the device does not move in altitude for 12 minutes,
the BAROMETER profile is activated”

olymay

@walker Agreed, a native app would be better, especially with how Suunto apply it. But in the meantime this is probably the closest we can get

@olymay
I’ve tried the Alti/Barometer app [again available on XDA v. 1.16] mentioned in some other thread and I’m quite happy with it… but as said I’d prefer a Suunto implementation

giulio

@walker
I think really that will not be any updates for suunto 7.
I hope at least in a successor with new chip and upgrade

Binky Rutledge

I am really bummed that the sport customization is so limited, along with the lack of interval support. I had an S9 and loved being able to really customize the sports modes, pace alerts, interval alarms, etc. Also, why no vo2max estimates?

Zoran Z

@eurohiker said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

I love the sleep tracking, it’s spot on to my sleeping. Even when I say I’m awake and fall back to sleep it just knows. Awesome functionality.

Since the sleep seems pretty accurate for me, can we get sleep cycle based wake up smart alarms? That would be awesome.

I agree that they should work on sleep tracking. Because it doesn’t track more than one sleep during the period of 24h which is pretty shame for watch like that. Even if you sleep more than 2 hpurs it does not track nothing. So literally it has been beaten in tracking by wristband Honor 6 for 50 euros which is also shame for company like Suunto is.

Jamie BG

@zoran-z - disagree with you. One sleep session and any naps should be reflected in resources i.e. a recharge of resources, which is the intent of a nap.
PS - naps really shouldn’t be 2hrs long either. You start to enter deep sleep cycles, and thus waking from those can cause more harm than benefit. Studies have shown that 10min naps provide the best boost and extending past 30mins can produce sleep inertia, and generally aren’t as effective as the 10min naps on alertness and energy retrieval.
So based on this I think that Firstbeat have it completely correct in that you don’t include naps in sleep, you include them in resources (body battery for Garmin).

If the should improve anything its the reporting detail of your sleep. I would like to see it more along the lines of what the Garmin Venu 2 / FR745/ FR945 and Fenix 6 lines provide along with breakdown of sleep score, deep & REM percentages etc and it would be assume if they also include within that trend detail along the lines of what HabitDash (https://habitdash.com/overview/) provide. Now that would be stepping up to the next level.

Guillermo Ortega Cerro

Do you think that the S7 has an update or development planned or is a discontinued product?

Jamie BG

@guillermo-ortega-cerro don’t see what else they could add other than the plus functions and external HR belt into the app - but is it worth doing in on a watch that is unlikely to see increased sales? I suspect development on this model is likely to drop to perhaps 1 drop per annum at the most. I hope I am wrong, but suspect not.

ChrisA

@jamie-bg I would love to see two things (which adding should no big problem) and that would be 1) a user defineable max HR value, so you could train in the correct zones if yours does not fit the 220-age calculation and 2) the possibility to “lock your HR zone” e.g. with a button press. You can do this with any Polar watch, when you reach a certain HR Zone “lock” it with a long press on the middle button and the watch will tell you, when you leave this zone, With those two things the S7 would be my choice, since I really love its very good HR Tracker and the maps, which I found better than the Fenix.

isazi

@chrisa I have the feeling that HR lock is Polar patent, or something similar, because no one else ever implemented it, and we know that companies implement what works from other companies when they can.

ChrisA

@isazi yes you‘re right, never realised that - it’s only with Polar watches…

Aleksander H

@jamie-bg said in Wishlist for a future Suunto 7 firmware:

@guillermo-ortega-cerro don’t see what else they could add other than the plus functions and external HR belt into the app - but is it worth doing in on a watch that is unlikely to see increased sales? I suspect development on this model is likely to drop to perhaps 1 drop per annum at the most. I hope I am wrong, but suspect not.

Auto pause, customizable HR zones, ability to add a POI from the map screen and have it sync over to the app after the workout, structured workout, customizable auto lap.

I can think of quite a few things I’d like. I personally doubt we’ll se any of it though as I can’t imagine they sell many anymore, so it won’t make sense to keep supporting it. Hard to justify buying a Wear OS watch unable to run Wear 3.0 these days.

I’m hoping, hoping that we haven’t seen more updates because they started work on a Wear OS 3 based app which will show up on a gen 2 Wear OS device sometime this year. Several othe app makers cut support for Wear OS 2 in their apps, so maybe Suunto considered that to be the only way forward for their development.

Would be a shame if Suunto left Wear OS market as there really aren’t any other decent Wear OS sports watches being made. Samsung just doesn’t seem to be there accuracy wise.

Jamie BG

@chrisa wouldn’t an HR alert zone work as effectively. i.e. I can set alerts for specific zones and will then get an alert when get into them and when move out of that zone - so while not a lock it is doing similar thing.
Also can set up a workout for specific zones then you get an additional workout screen with that gauge so easy to see if in that target zone or note, plus can get audio prompts advising when not in.

Brad_Olwin

@jamie-bg Would be great to have customizable HR zones and targets on S7, I suggested this a long time ago…