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My Google skills have let me down.
Suunto users, your help please.
In a nutshell:
-Suunto watch is great, but the Movescount App has many shortcomings. One redeeming feature is the ability to create a Suunto Movie of your ride.
-A month or so ago, Suunto started pushing me towards a different app, Suunto App. This is much better, but no option of creating a Suunto Movie.
-It seems It's either one app or the other - you can't run both concurrently.
I did a ride yesterday and would like to share the Suunto Movie with the mate I rode with. As above, I can't to this on Suunto App. I tried temporarily uninstalling Suunto App and reinstalling Movescount, but it only uploads activities up to the 8th December.
Anything I'm missing before I delve into the world of Suunto helpdesk?
Thanks,
I found the Movescount app useless at everything. If I want to see a video of my runs or rides, I use relive.cc instead.
Suunto has had two ecosystems for a while.
Movescount started as a web service back end for their watches and then gained a mobile app. The app has always been clunky. The web service has been good.
Suunto acquired Sports Tracker. Sports tracker started as an app with a web service behind the scenes. The web service was rubbish and the app was good.
Suunto are trying to bridge across these two worlds and it isn't a smooth process. I still prefer my old Ambit 2 watch which is pre-bluetooth and only works synced via a computer to Movescount. Neither of the apps offer anything for me for that watch.
I also have a Spartan Trainer wrist HR (because it less weight to have banging around on a wrist). This could use either Movescount or the Suunto app. They appear to have downspecced the movescount app recently as I used to be able to set up sports modes on the app and can't any more. They tried to pester me over to Suunto app but with the Ambit still being the mainstay on the Movescount platform I've stuck it out on movescount for now. No real answer. I mostly use the watches to capture a consolidated picture of my aerobic recovery and don't care for the apps much at all. I don't even look at them much during any workout - my sport modes display the time of day.
Suunto's comfort zone is a deeply conservative concept of product. The modern bells and whistles feature tickbox stuff isn't their natural home but it seems to be where the market has been led. Pointless really. Wrist HR doesn't work. (it really doesn't). Step counting isn't fitness. Alerts from the phone are a little bit useful. Syncing via an app? Nice to have; you have to plug the watch in to charge anyway so it doesn't make me want to not use my Ambit 2.
The final stage in my process is synchronisation from Movescount to Strava which is useful for consolidating other exercise sources that the watches don't fully capture. Zwift running is my current fave, with footpod data (cadence and speed) and HR being necessary for running the Zwift app. Because the Zwift app nabs the BTLE signal for those, the only signal I can capture on a watch is heart rate (via a dual radio ANT+/BTLE HR belt). Heart rate gives me the recovery metrics in the watch; everything else is in the Zwift app and ends up on Strava.
Agree re. relive.cc
Two excellent replies, thanks.
I was unaware of relive.cc and have just created a video of the ride in about two minutes. Problem solved.
Also, some good info on Suunto platforms. I hope they will eventually consolidate the best of both worlds.
I suspected that my wrist HR was iffy, as there are times where it says 62bpm and I'm gasping at at least 150bpm. Presumably that means that my average and minimum HRs may be a bit optimistically low.
Thanks again