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    • Petit_NuageP Offline
      Petit_Nuage
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      I just heard the news about the end of movescount in 2020, leaving me with no alternative to use my suunto watch.
      I quit smartphone one year ago and i wont come back. No.

      So, beside the drop of support for old watches, what about the new watches becomming useless without the help of a smartphone ?

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      • geoffspakesG Offline
        geoffspakes Bronze Member
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        It would be my guess that you will be out of luck. Smart phones are so prolific now that I’m betting that those that have a Suunto watch and that don’t have a smart phone of some sort are so far in the minority that it’s not worth the time and effort at this point.

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        • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
          Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
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          You can cheat. You can use the SML files for Suuntolink / moveslink to upload to some service. That I am not sure who posted this in the forum but I think it was either @sartoric or @Mff73 (not sure). Maybe they can help.

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          • sartoricS Offline
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            Not me … as far as I remember … that doesn’t mean I didn’t do it 😄

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            • Petit_NuageP Offline
              Petit_Nuage @geoffspakes
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              @geoffspakes
              What is worth or not is up to the operator.
              Taking care of man kind and earth is not worth in a buisness percpective but it’s totally worth in a altruistic percperctive 🙂
              @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos
              Thanks for the trick. I will try to find a way and share it.

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              • Mff73M Offline
                Mff73
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                For Android, there is an alternative for old watches, with openambit projet.
                Application is ambit connect.
                But you need à smartphone 😉
                Screenshot_20190115-190351_Google_Play�Store.png

                With only à computer, assuming that Moveslink or suuntolink will still export moves into local storage (sml or json or…) there is already some soft that can import them (ex sporttracks) , so I guess there won’t be watches without export solutions.
                Best will be Suunto to provide tools just to export files in common format, or give protocoles for developpers to do it 😁

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                  geoffspakes Bronze Member @Petit_Nuage
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                  @Petit_Nuage said in Any alternative to the smartphone dictatorship ?:

                  @geoffspakes
                  What is worth or not is up to the operator.

                  I meant what it’s worth for Suunto to support with such a minuscule demographic.

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                    TopographicTim Bronze Member
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                    I live in an area where phone coverage is so poor it would be pointless me having a smartphone. I want to be able to sync my watch via a PC. I just bought the thing and already it seems it’s obsolete! Poor…

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                    • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
                      Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager
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                      I have updated my hobby app quantified-self.io to supprort sml/json files from the ambits

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                      • ColdBeerC Offline
                        ColdBeer @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                        @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Any alternative to the smartphone dictatorship ?:

                        I have updated my hobby app quantified-self.io to supprort sml/json files from the ambits

                        And from Strava app too? 😍

                        var Watch="Garmin Forerunner 735XT", WatchFw="9.40";
                        var Phone="Samsung Galaxy S8", PhoneOS="Android 9.0.0";

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                        • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
                          Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @ColdBeer
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                          @ColdBeer What do you mean? The json that strava exprots if recorded with the app?

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                          • ColdBeerC Offline
                            ColdBeer @Dimitrios Kanellopoulos
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                            @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Any alternative to the smartphone dictatorship ?:

                            @ColdBeer What do you mean? The json that strava exprots if recorded with the app?

                            Exactly

                            var Watch="Garmin Forerunner 735XT", WatchFw="9.40";
                            var Phone="Samsung Galaxy S8", PhoneOS="Android 9.0.0";

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                            • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
                              Dimitrios Kanellopoulos Community Manager @ColdBeer
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                              @ColdBeer send me the file and I might be able to help

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