Suunto 7

[helgonet12]

@NickK I could not agree more on what @Brad_Olwin suggested. For me it is strange and odd that we have to use Google Fit for some features and SA for others. If this will continue I´ll to decide if I should stick with the S7 or just use the S9. I really like the S7 and my S9 and would be able to use the both but for different situations.

[pilleus]

@NickK sleep is shown as summary in Fit, which is enough for me. Deep sleep, time when I was not sleeping in the night and light sleep depends on the app or watch I use for tracking. It’s more guessing than analyzing.

Back to Fit and Suunto. The recorded activity is synced immediately after storing in the S7 to Fit, even before the sync to Suunto App.

A screenshot of the activity listed in Fit with the data Suunto pushed to Fit. May be the sync to Google Fit servers may have a delay so that are only the base data and the missing data will be displayed later on. I will wait some time.

It’s strange, that the recorded activity from Suunto App synced to Strava and resynced to Fit contains all data (distance, heart rate, speed, altitude and track on the map). And available immediately, no lagging, no delay.

I think that the problem is on Suunto’s side.

[pilleus]

Okay, no changes after 5 hours. The activity is listed without speed, distance, altitude and map.

Now I will resync from Strava to Google Fit. Let’s see what will happen.

[pilleus]

Resync from Strava, immediately updated in Fit, on phone and watch with speed, distance, map and altitude.

Map and altitude are yet missing, will be visible with a short delay, that is normal.

Here the screenshots.

[pilleus]

Finished

[pilleus]

Suunto, come on! It’s no problem for your developers to push all recorded data to Fit!

[jw cou]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos thanks for the tips about the touch to wake. I deactivated it, and can now easily go through 2 days with 2 x 1 hour gps activity and 1h listening to music without charging…
Battery sorted, I can now see what I’m missing in the WearOS SA 🧐

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@jean-william-cousin right eh? In the end who needs touch to wake … Oh oh I hope I didn’t get Google pissed

[A Former User]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said in Suunto 7:

In the end who needs touch to wake

Not so simple. If you don’t have touch-to-wake, when a notification comes, your watch buzzes, and there’s a notification dot shown on that ambient watch face of yours, you’d have to press a button or tilt your wrist to get the screen to activate, then swipe upward for notification.

With touch, you just swipe upward, without moving your wrist or pressing anything. Very convenient when you want to read notifications while driving Oh oh I hope I didn’t get cops pissed.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@NickK Ok. valid point. Din’t think of that honestly. I am starting to feel old.

[A Former User]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Nah! You are good But I do feel that usability is vastly improved with touch-to-wake. That being said, always on screen would be even better. You pay the price of convenience with the battery. Nothing comes free.

Still, to each his own. Somebody is fine throwing his watch on the charger a few times a day. Somebody wants to charge every 2-3 days at most. At least, we have magic toggles to play with to get us where we want.

[Anders Yngman]

Hi all that’s using the Suunto 7! Are you satisfied with how it get’s your heart rate and distance (with no GPS)?

[pilleus]

@Anders-Yngman better than any other of my Suunto watches with OHR (S9 and Spartan Trainer).

I am very satisfied!

[A Former User]

@Anders-Yngman OHR is a huge improvement over all other Suunto devices. Distance without GPS… Will know tonight when I run on the treadmill. The runs I did outside were real good if not exactly as good as the latest firmware S9 with Stryd. Trouble is: I had my phone with me, so the watch got fused GPS, with fixes coming from the phone most likely.

[Saketo Nemo]

My first impression

some healty problems prevented me from testing it better but for now:

• 2 times in the pool, whr surprisingly precise. I do not have a comparison with the hr band, but the cardiac progress has followed my exercises. with s9, in the same conditions, i had very bad results.
• 1 bike ride: slow, very slow, post blood donation. Excellent tracking (ok, cycling is easy) and here too, whr absolutely plausible despite several stretches on the bumpy.

Autonomy
Settings:

• animations passed from 0.5x to 0

• automatic brightness removed and set to 2

• no wake up with wrist rotation.

• By bike: 10% per hour, playing occasionally with maps and occasionally checking beats and rhythm

• swimming: 3% per hour.

• airplane mode: 1.5% per hour

Nice to have: shutdown by covering the screen with the palm of your hand
Maybe on Saturday I will try it for a trail with a lot of difference in height, together with my S9. Let’s see how the barometer and tracking will behave during the run.

[Lozen]

@Saketo-Nemo just a stupid question for which reason the WHR is so incredible better than S9? Valencell installed the same equipment or not?

[sartoric]

@Lozen
It seems different, just looking at it. Maybe is a sort of v2 … but I’m not even sure is still Valencell. I’ve never check

[Lozen]

@sartoric in the net the sensor is the same, at least this what is declared so I don’t know where this substantial improvement is coming from. Surely WearOS should not have impact on this incredible improvement

[sartoric]

@Lozen
For sure the weight helps, maybe the shape of the base …

[A Former User]

@Lozen said in Suunto 7:

@Saketo-Nemo Valencell installed the same equipment or not?

It’s not Valencell anymore. Different sensor package, different algos backing it up.