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Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by Melatonic »

sandworm101 wrote: post #96
lobster2342 wrote: post #47

I just finished swimming, tracked by a Garmin Forerunner 910x which I bought back in 2015 and I have been constantly using since. Wrist band replaced once each side. Battery lifetime still amazing, even with longer bike rides and GPS. Data can be analyzed locally. Uptime since I bought it: almost 100%. Amazing peace of Hardware. Also their algorithms are cool. If the watch tells me to rest more than 24 hours, I know,…

As a former very very fast swimmer, i never found a watch that worked. The ones with the features were to heavy/draggy. So i always bought dirt cheap ones that i could leave at one end of the lane. Cheap ironmans. They got stepped on every day. People would apologise and i would throw the watch across the deck to show how much i did not care about scratches. Try this: put your watch on your other wrist. The weight/dr…

Couldn't you clip it to the little lane dividers or hang it from the edge somehow ?

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by Melatonic »

catigula wrote: post #49
rolisz wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Body battery is amazing. I had long COVID/ME/CFS, and looking at the body battery when waking up was an outstanding predictor of how my day was going to be. When I hit 5% body battery, I was really feeling horrible.

It's just a collation of sleep-end RHR/HRV. It's completely trivial and many manufacturers do this correctly; both are extremely reliable predictors of recovery metrics. Garmin has absolutely shitty sleep tracking but it doesn't matter; any wearable more or less nowadays can get static heart rate correct, leading to more or less accurate recovery metrics. "Collect every paper you can find on RHR/HRV/etc. recovery met…

How does HRV predict stuff like this ?

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by Melatonic »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #93
TekMol wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the algorithm is proprietary, how do you know it is calculating something meaningful?

It matches my lived experience. My body battery and stress often starts declining for no apparent reason and then 12-24 hours later I feel the symptoms of an illness. Similarly, when in a tough training block, HRV is a great tool to gauge how hard I ought to be able to go: I've tried to push through and just do a tough workout anyways when it's out of range, but failed to complete the workout in good form, or felt su…

Personally using a 955 I recently (ish) got new direct from Garmin while they were still selling them. Got some major discount through a link I believe was tied to health insurance or something.

The newest watches seem insanely priced though and don't seem to add much. But the newest Enduro with decent solar is tempting

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by Melatonic »

znpy wrote: post #63

Nice, this might be the right thread to ask a question i have had on my mind for a while: is there a watch that can track some biological metrics (heart rate, steps, sleep data etc) but allowing my to pull data off it without using some proprietary platform? Basically i want to store my data in my own database. Might this be it?

I believe you can do this with most Garmins ?

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by LaGrange »

Melatonic wrote: post #130
RobotToaster wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most water rated devices will warn against wearing them in the shower/bath because surfactants (soaps) let water penetrate a lot easier.

I thought it was that the jets of water (sprayer) increase pressure and are actually harsher in some ways vs submerging ? And of course high heat melts the glue (like hot tubs)

It’s more than one thing but the surfactants are pretty bad.

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by _giorgio_ »

lobster2342 wrote: post #47

I just finished swimming, tracked by a Garmin Forerunner 910x which I bought back in 2015 and I have been constantly using since. Wrist band replaced once each side. Battery lifetime still amazing, even with longer bike rides and GPS. Data can be analyzed locally. Uptime since I bought it: almost 100%. Amazing peace of Hardware. Also their algorithms are cool. If the watch tells me to rest more than 24 hours, I know,…

The missing heart-rate monitor is a pretty big limitation for a lot of users. LOL. Imagine writing a review and leaving the heart rate in last place. Just don’t write a review then.

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by ajnin »

Not to pile up on the negativity, but looking at the SDK, first reaction is it's fucking C++ ? Can't wait for my watch to crash in the middle of something. And second reaction, when I see signatures like this :

  void TrackFaceTotal::setDistance(float dist, bool isImperial);
  void TrackFaceOverview::setPace(float pace);
and

  bool     unitsImperial;
littered everywhere, it makes my heart sink a little. Can't we have some data types and data modeling in 2026 please ? And leave unit conversion at the front end where it should be and not have to worry about it in every single core API ?

Re: Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly

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Post by roryirvine »

_giorgio_ wrote: post #137
lobster2342 wrote: post #47

I just finished swimming, tracked by a Garmin Forerunner 910x which I bought back in 2015 and I have been constantly using since. Wrist band replaced once each side. Battery lifetime still amazing, even with longer bike rides and GPS. Data can be analyzed locally. Uptime since I bought it: almost 100%. Amazing peace of Hardware. Also their algorithms are cool. If the watch tells me to rest more than 24 hours, I know,…

The missing heart-rate monitor is a pretty big limitation for a lot of users. LOL. Imagine writing a review and leaving the heart rate in last place. Just don’t write a review then.

GP is talking about a model that was released 14 years ago, and is closely based on one from 2009.

Seems to me that "still working well after more than a decade of use" is a more useful piece of info than "newer models include additional features".

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