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    Running Suunto App on a desktop with Bluestacks

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      aligigi Bronze Member
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      Hi guys,
      I’m one of the many people whining about not having a desktop app or a web platform to connect to my Suunto watch. I like having a big screen and a mouse for editing or creating routes. So I tried to do something about that.
      Bluestacks is an Android emulator (they call it Gaming platform) for Windows or Macos. I figured that if it can run an Android game it should have no problem running the Suunto App. It’s also free, I think there are some paid features but I don’t think they are needed for running Suunto App.
      And it does work. The setup goes like this:

      • Download Bluestacks from their site (there are different versions, I used the 64bit one with HyperV support for Windows) and install it
      • Run Bluestacks and log into your Google account
      • Open Google Play and install Suunto App
      • Run Suunto APP and log in to your Suunto account.
      • After that you get a Suunto shortcut on your Windows desktop ald launch the app from there just like a Windows app.
        At first the Suunto App crashed a few seconds after launch but after I played around with the Bluestack settings it works without problems. One can also try to enable or disable HyperV in windows.
        Everything seems to work apart from a few small issues:
      • Bluestack hangs when I try to activate Bluetooth from the Suunto App, but It’s not important to me.
      • When I open an activity or open a saved route (also when editing a route) the Suunto App goes to portrait mode, anywhere else it works in landscape. On my phone landscape mode works everywhere. But I have the beta on the phone and when trying to install the beta on Bluestacks I got a message that the beta program is full so I installed the regular Suunto App.
        I’ll post a few screenshots and the settings that work for me.
        bluestacks1.jpg bluestacks0.jpg settings3.jpg settings2.jpg settings1.jpg bluestacks6.jpg bluestacks5.jpg bluestacks4.jpg bluestacks3.jpg bluestacks2.jpg
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        TonyG Silver Members @aligigi
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        @aligigi thank you,
        I tried this a while back but it kept crashing; i dint try and resolve the crashing issues via settings; so thank you for your continued effort, i will give it a try later 🙂

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          Next month I think win 11 will be able to run Suunto app

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