Suunto Ocean

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 5 Sept 2024 at 10:36, Dave Sturtz <dave at sturtz.org> wrote:
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> 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