Parallel use with MC App

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@jarlin said in Parallel use with MC App:

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos Yes, and the Suunto App will be on ”feature review mode only” while I am temporarily on the other side.

You will be ok.

Just for the sake of this conversation I have personally hacked it.

I use both on the same phone and works great. How? (at your own rist)

Reqs
a) Uninstall and upair all
b) Know how to close an app that runs a service (BLE sync) on Android. You can do that via Settings -> Apps -> {{ App name }} -> Details -> Force stop

1. Install both apps and login but do not pair
2. Make sure no app is running via -> b)
3. Open the MC app and pair the watch
4. Let it sync
5. Force close the MC app via -> b)
6. Open the Suunto app. Pair if prompted, and no code will be asked. It should connect.
7. Let it sync
8. Enjoy

Repeat steps 3-8 for next activities.

[jarlin]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos thanks, might also try something like this on iOS

[jarlin]

@nigel-taylor thanks for tip and I can’t resist asking: you mean SportsTracker App? Salomon stuff?

[Brad_Olwin]

@jarlin I cannot pair my watch at the same time to the beta app on an iPhone and MC on the iPad. As @Dimitrios-Kanellopoulos said you will have to unpair and re-pair each time…a pain. I gave up on trying this and just wait to sync till I can.

[jarlin]

@brad_olwin Yes, that would be too much stress. I will use the SA on iPad w/o pairing to SSU for time being.

[SlaSh]

I use both in parallel at the same time without pairing watch to apps, just made sure that I do not run both at the same time and MC is having background app refresh off. When I want to sync workout to MC I just kill suunto app and starting MC after sync completes killing the MC.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@slashas said in Parallel use with MC App:

I use both in parallel at the same time without pairing watch to apps, just made sure that I do not run both at the same time and MC is having background app refresh off. When I want to sync workout to MC I just kill suunto app and starting MC after sync completes killing the MC.

nice

[Nigel Taylor]

@jarlin yup, I’ve always used SportsTracker app on phone as I much prefer it to Movescount…it now (in UK at least) has Salomon competitions and news embedded along with a few other tweaks last few weeks.

I was so happy that SA seemed to be basically “SportsTracker + Sync” initially (which is the holy grail as far as I was concerned!)…but seems that’s just a temporary situation.

[Brad_Olwin]

@slashas I am confused, if the watch is not paired, it does not show up in the app and will not sync, correct? This is iOS I am referring to.

[SlaSh]

@brad_olwin what I did is only forgot watch on the MC and it reappeared again after relaunch of Mc app and works till now with suunto app in parallel. I haven’t read suunto app installation guide

[Brad_Olwin]

@slashas ahhhh, to forget the watch completely it asks you to go into BT settings and forget…this will unpair from the iPhone. I had not thought of your trick. Kudos!!! I will try this out. and Thanks. This should help @jarlin

[jthomi]

Tried this several times on iOS, and unpairing and pairing every time worked for me, but yes, it was a pain to do every time.

[yovoSI]

My Android phone is rooted, so I only freeze one app while using the other and vice versa.

[Brad_Olwin]

@jthomi I have been trying too and am required to pair and unpair as well. I will delete MC and just use the cable for MC sync. Happy with that.

[jthomi]

@brad_olwin Same here!

[SlaSh]

For me works both without pairing anything, uploading walk which happened half hour ago:

[Carlos Avila]

@slashas same for me. Both apps installed on my iPhone and syncing every activity with both apps through the phone with no need to forget watch nor pair every time. I just close the first app after syncing and then start the other app and sync, no matter what order I use for syncing.

[jthomi]

hm, might have to test that again, I was doing that in the very beginning of the beta phase…

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@carlos-avila said in Parallel use with MC App:

@slashas same for me. Both apps installed on my iPhone and syncing every activity with both apps through the phone with no need to forget watch nor pair every time. I just close the first app after syncing and then start the other app and sync, no matter what order I use for syncing.

Perfect.

[Brad_Olwin]

@jthomi Ok, it did not work the first time but now both apps there. It seems only to work for me if I force quit after syncing with MC then open Suunto and it is working…Cool, I can now do everything from my iPhone…if only I could get the phone to do the running intervals for me and still get the benefit…