Dawn Patrol knows that analysing the data from your surf can help you improve your surfing. It’s kind of what we do. But we wanted to take it one step further, so we partnered with Surfline Sessions™. Surfline Sessions™ creates a video of every wave you ride in front of a Surfline camera and then sends it to your iPhone. Just connect your Dawn Patrol account to your Surfline App, check the cam locations, and go surf right in front of the camera. View your rides instantly after your surf with Dawn Patrol x Surfline Sessions™.
Once you have the above, follow these steps to connect accounts:
The synchronization process will automatically take place once your Dawn Patrol session is visible in Dawn Patrol app.
Your Sessions data should be immediately available, but if it isn’t, please refer to our Support. The Sessions syncing process of uploading your videos can sometimes take up to five minutes, but (we like to think) that in the time you’re done taking off your wetsuit, you’ll have clips ready to watch and share!
We are aware of the fact that the app consumes a lot of battery. Usually on the Watch you can surf somewhere between 2 and 3 hours on a full charge.
The reason for that is that the Watch is constantly monitoring your GPS position, your heart rate and energy burned as well as all of your movements in the water.
One thing you can do to optimize your battery life is to enable the low power mode. Apple gives some other tips on how to Maximize battery life and lifespan of your Apple Watch.
Don't worry about your surf session when your battery goes flat. If you have any pending sessions that were not synchronized to your phone because your Watch battery went flat you may want to restart your Apple Watch and open Dawn Patrol on both your iPhone and Apple Watch. When you do that, the pending session should synchronize to your phone.
The sensistivity settings determine how easily waves get picked up.
These are the options to choose from:
SLOW - Use this when the surf is really small, and waves don't have a lot of power. Also if you're a beginner surfer you might find Dawn Patrol picking up more waves on the SLOW sensitivity.
MEDIUM - In general we advise you to keep the sensitivity on MEDIUM, as this works for most conditions. Start using the MEDIUM sensitivity.. If you feel Dawn Patrol is not picking up any waves, try Dawn Patrol on SLOW sensitivity. And vice versa, when you feel Dawn Patrol picks up waaayyy too many waves, try whether the FAST sensitivity works better for you.
FAST - Use this setting in bigger surf and on faster breaks. Small or slow waves may not be picked up on this sensitivity setting. Advanced surfers may benefit from using the FAST sensitivity.
You could also change this setting from your phone. When you open Dawn Patrol on your iPhone and then go to Preferences > Forecasting you will have the same option there. Please note it may take a few minutes for the Watch to reload the Forecast for the newly selected spot.
Dawn Patrol works on all Apple Watches from Series 3 and later.
You don't need cellular for Dawn Patrol to work.