Use barometer of Wear OS devices for altitude

Michele Galimberti shared this idea ago

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Right now very few smartphones have a barometric sensor, and external altimeters are not always a convenient choice. For those who have Wear OS smartwatches, I think it would be a great idea to get the altitude from the barometer of the watch (especially if it was possible to calibrate it).

Meanwhile, thank you for the fantastic app!

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Michele Galimberti ●

Given the recent update to Wear for Locus, is there any plan to add support for this?

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Milan Cejnar ●

Hello,

we still have some issues with correct HRM synchronization from the watch. But once we fix it the addition of barometer support during track recording could be relatively easy. But it will probably be a couples of weeks or months before a next larger update, so maybe then, I will definitely see what we could do about it.

Best Regards

Milan

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nagyimre ●

Its will be great, becuse now fewer phone manufacturer built in baormeter for the phones maybe for cost reduction reason. If locus can use the watch baormeter what is good for example galaxy watch 4, the alituter datas will be more precisosus. For example it we go for 1200m ald hiking the phone with barometer show correct datas, the phone not show 20000m alt differenet. The problem is that the error correction not work very well in locus if we hiking in gorge. We are wait coriously for barometer data usage of the watch.

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Michele Galimberti ●

Sorry to bump the thread like this, but is there any news?

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Menion ●

Hello Michele,

unfortunately, Milan who created this add-on in no longer part of the team behind the app. So for now, add-ons for watches are currently paused. Thanks for understanding.

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Bernd H ●

Are there any news?

Regards Bernd

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