Apps WorkOutDoors: New workout features

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Bit confused reading the above few posts...my Action Button config is...

Action - Workout
App - Workout
First Press - Open Workout

In Workoutdoors under Start Options, I have Precision Start and Precision Start via Action Button enabled.

If I use the Native app (by pressing the Action Button), I select the Activity (Indoors/Outdoors/etc etc etc/Or a custom workout from intervals.icu), then Action button to GO...then Action Button would add a manual lap / skip a step. And Action+Side would Pause, ready to end.

If I use Workoutdoors (by press the app icon), and then select the activity type (I only have Running and Hiking enabled), it goes to the screen with the big Start button...if I then press Action Button, I "go". Pressing Action button again will introduce a manual lap (and assumedly skip a workout step if I built a structured workout), and pressing Action+Side gives me the pause I need at the end of a run ahead of pressing Finish.


I read that different to, "I am reasonably sure that the action button needs to be set to WOD for the shortcut gestures to work during a workout. I am not 100% certain of this but I always recommend it when people say that the action button is not working during a workout." - or is that for "some other" Action Button behaviour that people are trying to set up within Workoutdoors?

Thanks, this helped a lot. Configured action button for training, i.e. WOD.
Now I can start precision Start with action button and pause with action button+ side button. Then decativate water lock and end my workout.

 

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I posted what follows as a separate thread last week. One person commented that I should have posted it here as there are more users here familiar with workouts in general and with the Workoutdoors app:

This on an Apple Watch Ultra 1 (11.4) paired to an iPhone 14 Pro (18.4) running Workoutdoors 5.5.

I'm a long time user of Workoutdoors and love it dearly.

Within the last few days it has started generating inappropriate pause/resume announcements during a continuing workout.

Yesterday: "pause, resume, pause, resume, pause, resume".

Today: "pause, resume, pause, resume, resume, resume, resume, workout finished"

In neither case did the app actually pause or finish the workout. Workoutdoors continued to display elapsed time, speed, distance, heart rate, etc. In both cases I checked the GPS indicator which showed four bars and the watch was still charged to over 70%.

When I mentioned this to my wife she said, "Oh, yeah, that's what my watch did just before it failed."

So, is my Ultra in the throes of death or is something else going on?

[edit] Note that I don't think this is a problem with the app. I think the app is getting bad data from the watch.

What follows is a screenshot of Workoutdoors on one of the leisurely "workouts" where the pause/resume anomaly occurred. This ride started at the southern end, went north for breakfast and then back south. The anomaly happened at the point of the arrow on the outbound leg.