Any alternative to the smartphone dictatorship ?

[Petit_Nuage]

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 ?

[geoffspakes]

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.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

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.

[sartoric]

Not me … as far as I remember … that doesn’t mean I didn’t do it

[Petit_Nuage]

@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.

[Mff73]

For Android, there is an alternative for old watches, with openambit projet.
Application is ambit connect.
But you need à smartphone

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

[geoffspakes]

@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.

[TopographicTim]

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…

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

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

[ColdBeer]

@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?

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

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

[ColdBeer]

@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

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@ColdBeer send me the file and I might be able to help