A Boy and His Dog Christmas
· v1.11
About
I learned how to create watch faces because no matter how much I liked many I saw in the Connect IQ Store, there was always some sort of deal-breaker with them that kept me from wanting to use them every day. As is the case with all watch faces I release, I designed this for me. But I thought some other users might enjoy this as well, and so here we are. This face is pretty heavy, so it might take longer to light up or respond than you're used to. But who cares? It's fun and festive! In addition to celebrating an annual TV classic, you can quickly see how you're doing on your floors climbed, steps, and active minutes for both the day and the week. Each has a progress arc at the lower left. As you progress toward your weekly targets, the ring of lights around the watch face begin to light up. Once you reach the total number of steps, floors, and active minutes that you're trying to get for the entire week, the ring of lights will twinkle until the next week begins. By the way, Garmin doesn't provide a daily goal for active minutes, so for this watch face, your daily goal for active minutes is simply your weekly goal divided by seven. In similar fashion, Garmin also doesn't provide a weekly steps or floors climbed goal. For this face your weekly steps goal is simply your daily steps goal times seven, and the same for floors climbed. Other data shown on the face include moon phase, battery remaining, sunrise and sunset times, today's day and date, current heartrate, notification count, current weather conditions and daily forecast, the 3-day forecast, and status icons for alarms, do not disturb, and Bluetooth connection. For today's forecast, once the time reaches sunset or 6pm - whichever comes first, the daily forecast changes to a 3 hour forecast. The color arc beneath each day corresponds to that day's high temperature. Please see the temperature key image for details.
The color of the icons for steps, floors climbed, and active minutes change through shades of red, orange, yellow, and green depending on how you're progressing toward your weekly goals. For instance, let's say your daily step goal is 10000. That means your weekly goal is 70000. If you get 20000 on Monday, the steps icon will be green. It will remain green all day Tuesday even if you get 0 steps because you already have the 20000 you should have by the end of Tuesday. On the other hand, let's say you get 0 steps on Monday. Then on Tuesday you get the full 10000. The icon will still be red because you should have had 10000 when the day started. Hopefully that makes sense, and I know it's a little complicated. But basically, green means you're good, red means you have some work to do.
* Your floors climbed goal, steps goal, and active minutes goal must be set to something other than zero or the watch face will not work.
All of my faces are built by WFB, a great web-based app available at https://watchfacebuilder.com.
What's new
v1.1
Added characters to month and day fonts for languages other than English
v1.11
Changed yellow and red battery level colors from 24% and 12% to 20% and 10%