Suunto Race & Vertical: pair and save multiple sensors of the same type
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Hi All
I’ve been a long time fan of Suunto, starting some years ago with the fantastic Ambit 3 Peak, then i was forced to move to a Suunto 5 peak when the support for the navigation on the Ambit 3 ended (a little disappointing, together with the removal of any browser based interface for the Suunto app - something that I’m still wishing for), and last year I finally purchased a Suunto Vertical Solar and been very very very happy with the watch so far, especially after the new firmware release that brought the new Race interface.
One thing that still keeps bugging me tough is the complete impossibility on a hardware powerful watch such as the Vertical or the Race to pair and store/save multiple sensors of the same type.
Both watches have great hardware specs, and in terms of software addition it doesn’t seem overly complicate to add the possibly of saving let’s say two different bike pods (whether is speed or cadence), name them, and simply switch between the two when using or the other bike.It would seem a very low hanging fruit that will make lot of the current Suunto users very happy and that could even convince more users of other platforms to switch to Suunto.
So the question here mainly directed to Suunto,'s development team is: why is still not happening?
Can we hope for this little addition in on of the new software updates to be rolled out during 2024?
Keeping my hopes high in the meantime!
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@Edoardo-Coppolillo said in Suunto Race & Vertical: pair and save multiple sensors of the same type:
One thing that still keeps bugging me tough is the complete impossibility on a hardware powerful watch such as the Vertical or the Race to pair and store/save multiple sensors of the same type.
Both watches have great hardware specs, and in terms of software addition it doesn’t seem overly complicate to add the possibly of saving let’s say two different bike pods (whether is speed or cadence), name them, and simply switch between the two when using or the other bike.I absolutely agree with you. I am currently using Coros and am happy to use this feature. I am keeping my fingers crossed for my next Suunto…
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I think this has been discussed before with more or less emotions
It is on the list of topics at Suunto development. Priority is there - other cool things might come first though… -
@cjanevate Hi Egika!
The reason I’m writing is because I’m seriously considering in buying a SV and after reading some reviews like the DCR one, I was looking if I can find newer info about this.
I have 2 road bikes with speed/cadence sensors and an Elite Direto interactive trainer. I also have 2 different HR chest straps.
Do you have a link for that TO-DO dev list or something we can read saying that a new firmware is going to be really released with the support? I can’t find anything about that and I don’t understand why a premium watch like the SV has still such an important issue like this one.
Thanks.
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@Oinatz-Aspiazu I fully understand your case.
There are no documents out there that show when if if a certain function will be added.
Check Q7 here: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/9960/more-faqt6, S6, Elementum Terra, Ambit 3 Sapphire, Spartan Ultra Copper, Traverse Alpha, S7 Graphite Limited Edition, S9B Ambassador, S9P Granite Blue Titanium, S9PP Titanium Sand, Vertical All Black, Race Titanium Charcoal, Race S All Black
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@Egika I got an Vertical for a very good price and I am quite happy with it. But even I got two HR Straps, one for running and an OHR one for Hikes when the watch is worn over the sleeves (bad weather, bagpack etc.). It is annoying that it is impossible to add both straps at the same time. It would be nice to know if this is on the schedule for the future, even without knowing the exact time. Suunto needs to learn, that this is a flaw that keeps many people away from their watches. Especially bikers, with more than one bike. Every competitor has no issue there, so it must not be rocket science. Btw. Syncing and updating via Wifi would be cool also.
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@Chris-Ki said in Suunto Race & Vertical: pair and save multiple sensors of the same type:
@Egika I got an Vertical for a very good price and I am quite happy with it. But even I got two HR Straps, one for running and an OHR one for Hikes when the watch is worn over the sleeves (bad weather, bagpack etc.). It is annoying that it is impossible to add both straps at the same time.
Yes, I understand that.
It would be nice to know if this is on the schedule for the future, even without knowing the exact time.
I have answered this above right in this thread,
Suunto needs to learn, that this is a flaw that keeps many people away from their watches. Especially bikers, with more than one bike. Every competitor has no issue there, so it must not be rocket science. Btw. Syncing and updating via Wifi would be cool also.
Forum users need to learn that their individual functional needs are not necessarily the ones from 80% of all users.
In case of this one maybe you can make an educated guess what the percentage of all Suunto users is, that do actually have 1 BT sensor paired to their watch at all.
You’d probably be surprised by the reality… -
@Egika thanks a lot for the answer
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@Egika Just bought a new SV.
I hope Suunto can fix this issue. Even chinese watches like the T-Rex 2 can map multiple sensors of the same time and they do pretty well.When you are more than a casual runner it is normal to have different accesories from different manufacturers.
Thanks for your answer
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@Egika There are lots of other discussions in this forum concerning the quality of the OHR measurements on suunto watches (and other brands) especially during intense activity - as well as lots of reviews. The answer is generally “for intense activity HR tracking it is recommended to use a BT sensor”. Fair enough. But if that’s the case surely it would be sensible for suunto to improve the BT sensor pairing experience. They can’t really have it both ways. Other brands, even cheap brands, support multiple sensors of the same type (although not in use at the same time, of course) as well as showing info on the active sensor such as ID and battery level (where supported by the sensor). I obviously don’t know the actual situation with the BT code for the watches but as the code is quite capable of supporting multiple sensors (of different types) my gut feeling is this isn’t a hard problem to solve.
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@far-blue I bought the SV Titanium because of the less weight. I understand that it could be a bit better with OHR readings than the steel one. But I don’t usually rely on the OHR, and that’s why I bought the watch. It seems to me the best watch of the market without any doubt.
I do have a Polar H10 strap because I like it, it’s comfortable and it has the best HR readings for me. I also have an HRM Tri for the swims and I will probably buy the Suunto one for the swims with the vertical. So my idea is to use the H10 and the Suunto one and I shouldn’t be pairing and unparing every time I need to use one.
The same happens with my bikes. I have 2 road bikes (one is a Tri bike for TT training and the other one is a normal road one for the climbs and road couses). I shouldn’t be pairing and unparing sensors each time I want to use one. Some friends have also an MTB for new sensors… and that also means that if one bike is near the other one or near of a friend’s bike, you don’t know which sensor you are pairing each time you need to pair /unpair a sensor and because you need to do this everytime. And as I said, even chinese watches can pair multiple sensors.
I’m receiving the watch next week. I have read that there was also an issue with multiple alarms too but I understand is fixed now. I usually wake up on mondays, saturdays and sundays at different times for my trainings.
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Sorry, just seen the multiple alarms issue is fixed. Finally, it seems I’m receiving my SV Titanium Solar tomorrow. Pretty happy.
So I’m moving to Suunto from Garmin. I understand Suunto will fix the multiple sensors issue in a near future. It’s the only missing thing in the watch I think.
At the end, more features and less bugs result in better devices, happier users and “less bad noise” (so more potential sales).
This seems to me a very (critical) important bug specially for people who is used to a regular training or triathletes and it’s just only a software thing that can be easily fixed.It is also something than everybody , even cheap chinese watches is already doing fine. And this is a premium watch that wants to compete with other premium devices.
