WHatch4Me
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About
Feedback is a joy! Feedback / comments via twitter : @whatchforme.
If you’d like to say thanks you could buy me a coffee. https://www.buymeacoffee.com/warwickh
This is the watchface I wanted - designed for me perhaps useful for you.
I wrote and tested this on Venu during April 2020 when I was looking to learn some skills and find something to do with my time. Stay Safe.
Back in the day (with an original vivoactive) I loved SimpleActive- https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/fa683ad9-0c18-4c12-85af-6dea062ed308
I appreciated being able to see my step history over the last 7 days and the encouragement to keep the whole week Green.
This watchface is inspired by that along with multiple other watchfaces that all did some of what I wanted but not everything.
Key features:
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* Sunrise/Sunset - the next sun events - R2 - Now based on GPS Location. If you get a "No GPS" message then go outside - start a run activity and wait for GPS lock - then try WHatch4Me again - once you have a GPS lock WHatch4Me saves this so it will subsequently assume you are in the same location again. If you travel to another location - just get a new GPS lock to update the location.
* Days To/Since date - count down to an event (birthday, run, Christmas) or count up from an anniversary or a bad habit you are trying to break. Set the date in Settings via Connect IQ. Can also hide this display from Connect IQ settings.
*Steps Streak - initially calculated based on the days that the watch face sees (last 7 days). The code saves the date it last sees a missed day - and then counts from then. If you miss a day this will reset. Can be overridden by Connect IQ settings but that will only work if there are no missed days in the watch history
Screen Description :
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Battery %
Sunrise, Heart Rate, Sunrise
Date, Bluetooth connect (blue filled circle)
Time
Step Average (for 8 days including today)*
Max Steps (for 7 days not including today because
Days To/Since date - (See explanation above) - optional CIQ setting.
Step Graph history (Grey for unmet, green for met, blue for today)
Steps today / Streak Days (See explanation above)
Low Power Mode - Just the time - in small font - moving every minute to meet the Venu screen burn in rules -
only active on Venu (and others?) if Timeout="Always On" is on
recommend with Gesture Sensitivity = "High" setting.
Connect IQ Settings:
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*Display Day (to/Since) or not - optionally turn on/off the to/since date
*To/Since Date - select a day to count down to or up from.
*Attempt to Override Streak (y/n) one time setting - to override using the following date
*Override Streak Date - the date to be used to override the start of streak
(read above re Streak Date - a missed day in your 7 day history will mean this override date wont work - WHatch4Me knows you are cheating! )
Known Issues / Small Print:
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Tested on physical Venu - Simulator tested on other watch face sizes
Streak:
Streak (under the graph) will ONLY be accurate if Whatch4Me is run every day (or at least once a week).
If you used this Whatch4Me once - then chose another watchface for daily use - and missed a bunch of days - but then came back to Whatch4Me during a week after you had made steps goal everyday - then Whatch4Me would not have "seen" your missed days and would incorrectly give you a very long streak dating back to when you last used Whatch4Me.
This is the expected behaviour - you can use the override setting to correct this situation to a more recent date.
What's new
Release 2 - Added GPS location to calculate Sunrise/Sunset Removed settings for Location (Lat/Long).
R3/R4 - Review spacing and design to work with more different sized watch faces
(would be nice if system font sizes were proportional and consistent to face size - but it seems they are not!)
Thanks Warren and Ivy for testing!
R5 - Still not totally happy with the spacing on all devices - further tweaks
- Removed Low power mode for devices not requiring burn in protection.