Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces

[pilleus]

A very precise rain radar is available with the app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.wetteronline.regenradar

on the smartphone and the app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wearablewidgets

on the smartphone and the S7.

I personalized the right middle button to show wearable widgets. In wearable widgets on the phone I choosed rain radar (screenshot 1) or weather radar (screenshot 2) as widget and configured it to fit the full round screen of the S7.

[pilleus]

To avoid the poor import of activities from Suunto to Google Fit I deactivate the option in Suunto App settings on the watch.

I let the Suunto App on the smartphone sync to Strava and import the synced activity with SyncMyTracks in Google Fit.

Then I have the activity immediately listed with all data and track on the shown map.

Works great with any other third party app (e. g. Notification&Fitness, which I use together with my Amazfit GTS for sleep tracking).

Here the details in Google Fit, the activity is recorded with Suunto App on the S7.

[pilleus]

Interval timer for sprints and more while running, cycling or swimming or everything else:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neurondigital.exercisetimer

Installation on smartphone (for creating a new training) and S7 (to start the timer).

The timer can run in foreground or background (then you only feel the very strong vibration of every circle and you are able to have a look at the heart rate in Suunto App).

I choose a training with the S7 Suunto App and then I start the timer. You can preset in the timer a time of preparation (e. g. 30 seconds), meanwhile you can switch to S7 Suunto app and start the training. Or whatever you want.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@pilleus

[A Former User]

@pilleus @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos And that’s how Suunto delivers structured workouts Can’t argue with the workaround.

[Bulkan]

@pilleus About this, there is a video (in spanish) but you can see the switching from strava, suunto app and an alarm.

Here

[jsuarez]

@NickK Facepalm!

[pilleus]

Wearable widgets and windy radar on the right middle button. Same as rain radar some posts before, but animated and showing the last three hours to have a clue of what will happen.

wearable widgets and windy radar

[Brad_Olwin]

@pilleus Windy is my favorite weather app but I cannot get it to work. I assume you need an Android phone, I have iOS.

[pilleus]

@Brad_Olwin said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

Android

[Brad_Olwin]

@pilleus

[pilleus]

Settings on the S7 to save power

(Please search for the correct English terms in the settings of the S7, I have only the German version)

Display: Go to settings - display and set the brightness to a low level or automatic.

Gestures: Go to settings - gestures and deactivate ‘touch to wake up the watch’ and ‘wrist gestures’ (I speak about the gesture to bring the upper screen with the symbols or the bottom screen with notifications up through a hard and fast turn of the wrist and the fast shaking of the wrist in both directions to open the menu with the installed apps). I only have active the gesture to show the screen when I rise the arm.

Animations: Switch them off to have a snappy change of screens and static symbols instead of animated (e. g. the white running circle at the top of the screen when opening Google Fit).

Go to settings - system - info. Scroll down to the Build version or number and tap on the word until you get the message to be a developer now.

Leave info and system and you will find at the bottom of the menu the developer options. Open it and scroll down to the three lines with animations.

Open one after the other and activate the first option, which sets the animation to off.

You can redo all these settings without problems if you experience any problems.

Tip to solve problems with missing heart rate in Google Fit or missing notifications while running the Suunto App during an activity: Reset the S7 to factory settings and reconfigure it with WearOS.

I did this after the last update of the S7 Suunto App and now I have notifications in the proper way during recording an activity and continuous recording of the heart rate in Google Fit.

Thanks for reading!

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

Another one a home project from our own devs Reminds you of something?

Oh and its free

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tugberkakdogan.weartools

[cjp131]

@Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos Very cool! 2 Thoughts/Questions:

Should there be a setting to input elevation so that the pressure measurements are more accurate based on elevation etc?

Is there any chance of having a inHg setting/version?

Very great work!!! Thank you!

[pilleus]

Ghostracer

provides a gpx routing with different maps, map styles, colors and even 3D view in paired or standalone mode. Offline maps optional.

Here a power saving style I prefer on the S7 (just switched away from the correct orientation, sorry).

[pilleus]

Wear gesture launcher

You want to check the air pressure during an activity recorded with the S7 app or start another app?

With this gesture launcher you can do it with a tap to a predefined area on the screen without leaving the S7 app. Just tap there, draw your gesture on the screen, the program will open. I defined the left corner to tap to avoid conflicts with the S7 options on the right side of the screen.

After swiping out the open program to the right side you will be back in S7 app without doing anything else.

https://youtu.be/LUBuNijS8UU

[pilleus]

Okay, this gesture thing is great!

I toggled between ghost racer and S7 app and it worked flawlessly.

Just a short tap, drawing the gesture and the app is open. Back to the other app in the same way.

[pilleus]

@pilleus said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

gpx routing

On a ride over 3 hours I used the S7 without connection to the phone (no WearOS, no Suunto app connected).

S7 app was recording cycling (mountain bike path), ghost racer was recording the activity too with a loaded gpx route and offline maps. Both apps used the gps of the S7.

I toggled between S7 app and ghost racer, to show elevation and altitude and nearby crossings to show the track.

After 1,5 hours I stopped ghost racer and continued with S7 app only.

Start: Battery 97 %
After 1,5 h and recording the activity with two apps : 70 %
After 3 h and recording only with S7 app from 1,5 h onwards: 60 %

Tomorrow I will take S7 app and Locus to have a comparison of routing with a gpx track. ️

[Bulkan]

@pilleus vídeo please!!!

[pilleus]

@Bulkan said in Suunto 7 - Tips and tricks, apps and watch faces:

@pilleus vídeo please!!!

About what?