"auto pause" when recording a session - Is there a way to set it?

In the standard "walk", "cycling" and "run" activities, there is a way to set "auto pause", so if during a run or ride, it pauses the recording if you are waiting to cross a street or have your 4 legged friend stop to "water a bush". In a CIQ app recording a session, is there a way to set this, or does it use the setting from the standard apps?

If you can't do it in CIQ, maybe it could be added as a parameter to start(), or as a new method to set it??

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

Just like auto-lap, alerts, and a ton of other nice features, this is something that an app would need to handle on its own.

Travis

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

I can see how you can manually pause and restart a recording (user action to stop and then start a recording), and for auto pause, you can use a speed of "0" to stop the recording, but with the recording stopped, how to you tell when the user starts moving again, as the speed won't change.

There must be some smarts in the FW running/walking apps to use the accelerometer or something - GPS could work if you're using GPS, but what if you're not?

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

Many fields of the Activity.Info have data in them when the recording is stopped. I've checked, and currentSpeed is updated even when the session is paused. You should note that much of the data exposed to us is not always from a single sensor. If you have GPS disabled, but are wearing a HRM-Run or FootPod, you will get a speed value that is approximated given your cadence.

Travis

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

travis - thanks for the info. if speed changes with recording is stopped, that will work! I didn't want to trust the simulator on this one.