Questions, suggestions, bugs

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

All in one place to avoid creating tons of threads.

Backlight
I find the current implementation of backlight rather strange, or I don’t understand the settings.

1. Why are there three levels of brightness if there’s a light sensor available? It seems that only the standby is using the sensor?
2. If I have my backlight set to low and set the backlight as always active during the workout - will it be as dim as the dimmest standby available? The question is related to seeing an afterglow during night runs with rise to wake enabled. I’d like to have a very dim light constantly active during the run - but without the need to go deep into backlight settings before each run to disable rise to wake.

Pre-workout

1. It seems that S9PP doesn’t remember last battery mode used, and it defaults to Performance. Is it by design?
2. Are there more preferences planned for custom battery mode? Like BT on/off, brightness levels, etc.?

Workout

1. Are there any plans to make a smaller font as an option? Large fonts are nice and legible, but fonts have grown at a cost of whitespace. I find it hard to quickly take a reading, as the watch face looks like a bunch of compressed numbers - and tiny icons don’t help much.
2. Is FusedAlti available when using Endurance? If not, perhaps Performance could be active a little longer to have a nice and steady GPS for barometer calibration?

Haptics

1. I get it that vibrations were made stronger, as they were hard to feel during the workout, and I have no issue with that. The problem is outside the workout, especially in a quiet environment, as the watch emits a loud rattle when vibrating. So, perhaps, vibration profile should be different (stronger) during the workout and outside the workout?

Widgets

1. This is a very nice addition and a welcome one. It’s also great that they can be reordered and turned off / on.
2. Widgets with charts: It would be great if certain events were marked as vertical lines. I’m thinking about midnight, go to sleep / wake up, activity. Although, whole hours (or every 3 hours) could be marked to make more sense out of displayed data.
3. Are there any plans to make them more like an app that could utilize an API to communicate with external services? For example, I’m thinking about a weather widget using either phone location or current watch location and data provided via SA to display weather forecast.
4. Is CTL/ATL/TSB coming as a widget? It could be merged as one of the existing (one screen) ones.
5. Are widgets programmed in firmware or are they available via SA like S+ apps?
6. I’d welcome “one last custom time” in timer widget. For example: If I’m going to set a timer for 4 minutes, I’d like to have 4 minutes available in the list (apart from default ones). If I then decide to use 7 minutes for custom time, 4 minutes could be erased and 7 minutes be available as custom shortcut. Simply put - whenever custom time is used, make it available as a shortcut from the list, but offer only one custom time (last one used).

Notifications

1. It would be great if we could answer / decline an incoming call. When declining, ideally with sending a message (one of the five defined). Three buttons (and only buttons) could be used for it.

S+

1. Now that we can transmit data to external devices, I think it would be awesome to have an S+ app providing near realtime data (via smartphone and Suunto website perhaps) about workout to certain people.

[zhang965]

All of this???It looks like you are preparing s9ppp

I told you one thing, I never trust Suunto wrist awake, when I do exercise, the backlight is always on.

The notification is lame, just disable the vibration.

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@zhang965 pppp even. It’ll be so awesome that we can skip ppp altogether.

The problem with backlight being always on is how bright it is. I used standby with no rise to wake in S5 which worked well. But I had to switch rise to wake each time before and after a workout, not something that I enjoyed. Also, in S5 when having standby on and rise to wake on, it engaged dim standby light outside the workout and full backlight during the workout. Which was bonkers.