On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 10:36, Dave Sturtz dave@sturtz.org wrote:
Can anyone tell me if & when the new Suunto Ocean might be supported?
So it actually is "supported" in the current subsurface builds as long as you get something recent (read: just download the daily build for now to get some of the fixes).
However: the quotes around "supported" is because you have to use the Suunto App, and then download the FIT files, and import them into subsurface.
There's no direct downloading of info from the dive computer, and honestly, from having looked at some BLE dumps, I don't think there will be. The Suunto Ocean seems to be a new platform (ie more closely related to the running watches, not the EON Steel/Core/D5 dive computers before it), and seems to act a lot more like the Garmin Descent does than the older Suunto dive computers. And unlike the Garmin series, there is no cable download with a FIT file interface, the USB cable is purely for charging. So you *have* to get the FIT files from the Suunto app.
And honestly, I was a bit disappointed in the Suunto Ocean. Like the Suunto D5 before it, the display layout is pretty fixed and limited. You cannot, for example, get something as basic as gas pressure and gas time remaining on the screen at the same time - you have to press buttons many many times to cycle through the single line at the bottom.
The Shearwater computers do a lot better.
But that is just a personal preference. Perhaps more importantly, the Suunto app download seems to be very unreliable. I had thirteen dives on the computer last week, and I see all thirteen dives in the dive log on the Suunto Ocean itself.
But the Suunto app only has 11 of the 13 dives, and no amount of "Sync now" downloads the two missing dives.
I'm sure this is all part of the "this is a new platform", and they'll fix it. I'd hope so, at least. But as things are right now, the Ocean has problems, and the problems it has are out of our hands unless somebody figures out the download protocol (and that "someone" has traditionally been me for both Garmin and the more modern Suunto dive computers, but it looks very unlikely to be so for the Ocean).
Linus