Does anyone have experience with the Halcyon Symbios dive computer and transmitter?
Halcyon began as a group of divers who knew exactly what they wanted, but could not find it in any dive store. Our passion for diving led us to designing wings and lights to satisfy ourselves.
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I currently dive the Symbios computer and transmitters in side mount and back mount doubles. I like it well enough for how thin it is and how easily readable it is at a glance. Operation wise it's less intuitive than shearwater (I used to use the perdix) but not horrible. My biggest complaints are
1) it doesn't show very much information at a time/isn't as customizable.
-you still have all the same bells and whistles but displaying all the information requires you to scroll through screens vs having it on on page. Depth, time, and NDL take up 3 out of 4 information boxes with the last one being able to be scrolled through for gas, TTS, ect
2) doesn't retain logged information like gas
-AI shows you pressure left but after a five it doesn't retain for logging purpose. How a big deal but still
3) app for logging is pretty poor
-the app for downloading dives is pretty poorly designed. It's set up like halcyon's own Instagram so you need to open it up, scroll away from the new feed page, go to devices, go to logged dives, then select the dive you want. If you don't have wifi I have had problems opening the app but that might be a me problem.
4) depth and accent rate are delayed.
-again not a big problem but holding a mid water deco stop the depth gage takes time to display the most current depth. So if you are not very stable on water positioning you might be "hunting" the depth you want since there is a mild gap delay between arriving at the depth and displaying the current depth on computer
It's a nice system all being considered, it feels like a oversimplified version of the shearwater perdix with a larger/ easier to read screen. But ultimately feels way less refined.
