Suunto ZoneSense
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@James-Eastwood Yes, I’ve been using one for a few months. It works fine with ZoneSense as long as you make sure the strap is damp.
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@James-Eastwood Before you start an activity you can check where the HR data is coming from because the icon for the HR is different. I’d also suggest just turning off the watch OHR in the activity settings - it will then remember this for that activity in future.
You can also link your Suunto account to Runalyse which, among its many other excellent features and capabilities, can show you if there is RR data and the quality of that data within an activity.
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@far-blue Great tips, thanks
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@maszop As far as I can remember, on my Vertical, when the optical heart rate is enabled and the watch loses the signal from the strap during an activity, it switches to the optical sensor. But I need to double-check, because those saying otherwise here are starting to make me doubt. (I think I even decided to completely disable the optical heart rate sensor during activities to avoid that kind of annoyance.)
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@James-Eastwood I’m sorry, I was mislead by the website cross promoting an optical arm monitor as well…
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@Ghost said in Suunto ZoneSense:
As far as I can remember, on my Vertical, when the optical heart rate is enabled and the watch loses the signal from the strap during an activity, it switches to the optical sensor.
No, it does not, unfortunately. I just double checked. Once you start an activity, there is no way to change sensors, HR or otherwise. I’ve had it happen a number of times where the battery on my external HR sensor dies or stops working for whatever reason. You’re then left with no HR data for the remainder of the activity. It definitely should fall back to the OHR, but doesn’t.
I tie this in with the general failing of how Suunto handles external sensors. Hopefully the ability to change sensors mid-activity will come along with the ability to have multiple sensors of the same type.
