Pause does not stop the Suunto 9 from reading HR

Schalk Liebenberg

I use a Suunto 9Baro with a 3rd Party external arm optical HR sensor. When I pause a run it stops recording Satellites and Altitude but keeps on recording HR readings. I am not sure if I were to use the native optical or a Suunto chest HR strap whether it would continue reading HR.

When using the analytical program Intervals.icu it prevents me from cutting the pauses,

Is this because I use a 3rd party HR sensor, I find it to give a more stable reading that the native HR sensor.

Is there a workaround?

Matúš

@Schalk-Liebenberg, even if you track the HR with the OHR sensor, the current HR is still visible during a pause, so I do not think is a matter of native or not native HR sensor.

Have you tried maybe to turnoff the 24h HR monitoring?

Egika

GPS and HR data is measured also during pause. This makes sense so you are ready to continue the exercise without any delay for acquiring and filtering data.

Now do you mean that the HR data is written into the JSON or FIT file, that you can download from the Suunto app also during pause?

Mff73

@Schalk-Liebenberg
Yes, HR is read during pauses AND saved as well (like temperature for example as well).
For your use case, it may be an issue, but for others, it is interesting.
If one doesn’t want to count time and potential movements during a pause, but still need/want to see its HR evolution during these pauses, it could be nice (or temperature).

From Suunto, no workaround, except, as said, to disable HR before pausing, and reenable it after, but you may face same issue with temperature, which is also recorded during pauses.

I think you would need external tools to remove all data during pauses.

Schalk Liebenberg

@Egika I am not 100% sure how Intervals integrates with Suunto. If it fetches the FITT file or reads directly from a staging database.

Schalk Liebenberg

@Mff73 I agree that it would the readings maybe valuable for others. It would be better to filter the data collected during the pause in the analysis software.

Schalk Liebenberg

@Matúš Thank yo, but I don’t think turning of the 24hr HR monitoring is the answer, from the answers here the watch will record HR, GPS, Temp and Barometer continuously during the exercise. Even if I disable the HR there will still be data associated with the pause. The Intervals platform does not have the ability to compress/ignore a field if it has data.

zadow

@Schalk-Liebenbergm if I may share my honest opinion, this is more a question for intervals.icu than for Suunto. Suunto works as designed and I can tell you that not only Suunto does that. On any watch, let there it be Garmin, Coros, Samsung, Apple, etc, are stopping only actual duration of the activity, while keeping on GPS and HR data in background. (by the way, Autopause feature could not exists then, if the GPS would be off during the pause)
These data are very interresting and widely used. On some platforms, there are specific features, wittch calculates your recovery, from HR drops during pause.
Well, I trust you that you are interrested in specific data recorded during active time only, however, I would recommend you to open this issue with intervals.icu, or use some 3rd party SW, which is able to cut data recorded during the pause.
Good luck and let us know how you dealt with it, once you will

Schalk Liebenberg

@zadow said in Pause does not stop the Suunto 9 from reading HR:

hat you are interrested in specific data recorded during active time only, however, I would recommend you to open this issue with intervals.icu, or use some 3rd party SW, which is able to cut data recorded during the pause.
Good luck and let us know how you dealt with it, once you will

Thank you @zadow and yes it is a intervals issue and I have taken up with the the developer.