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Tactical Metric Monitor

· v2.0
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About

Tactical Metric Monitor is a detailed, high-contrast watch face designed for Garmin Instinct 3 Solar 45 mm / 50 mm watches. It brings your most useful daily information together in a compact tactical-style layout while keeping the screen readable. Features include: • Time, date, seconds, AM/PM, and alarm count • Morning, afternoon, and evening weather forecast icons • Live heart rate display with a subtle heartbeat animation • Average and current stress values • Body Battery percentage • Two-hour heart-rate history graph with dynamic minimum and maximum values • Stress trend line displayed over the heart-rate graph • Garmin Move Bar progress indicator • Solar intensity, Pulse Ox, respiration rate, and calories • Battery days remaining • Recovery time and weekly Intensity Minutes • Bluetooth phone-connection indicator • Daily steps and distance • Current and daily high temperature • Next sunrise or sunset time with a remaining-time countdown • Custom Sleep RHR, scans night time window and displays the lowest valid rolling 30-minute average heart rate. • Training Status with 8 custom icons representing Productive, Maintaining, Recovery, Peaking, Overreaching, Unproductive, Detraining, and Strained. • Vo2 Max running Metric The watch face uses Garmin-native health, activity, weather, positioning, and device data. Some values may display “--” when the required sensor data is unavailable. For weather and sun information, connect your watch to Garmin Connect on your phone, allow weather updates, and enable GPS/location updates when needed. For heart-rate information, make sure wrist heart-rate monitoring is enabled. Designed for personal daily health and activity monitoring on the Instinct 3 Solar.

What's new

Newly Updated Features • Redesigned Move Bar with segmented inactivity progress. • Added Custom Sleep RHR for better overnight resting heart-rate tracking. • Added 8 new Training Status icons for clearer training and recovery insights. • Redesigned Sunrise/Sunset icon for improved visibility. • Added an additional VO₂ Max Running metric. • Slightly redesigned the overall layout for cleaner spacing and easier reading. • Improved the heart-rate graph, with clearer scale indicators such as 100 and 125 BPM for easier tracking. • Improved battery optimization for better efficiency and longer battery life. • Added several small UI and performance improvements for a smoother overall experience. If you notice any issues or have any comments, please let me know. I’d also love to hear how you like the new look. If anything needs to be changed, or if you prefer the old version, please feel free to contact me. [email protected]

Permissions

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Details

Compatible with 2 devices
Updated Aug 18, 2026
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