Tide times UK [Tide LE]
· v3.5
About
TIDECAST is here - a note from the developer
ORIGINAL-USER THANK-YOU: your first year of TideCast Plus for just £1.50 (then £3.99/year, cancel anytime).
Thank you for using Tide LE. I'm a one-person hobby dev, and the tide service behind this widget - thousands of stations, updated continuously costs real money to run every month. A free-only model just isn't sustainable for me anymore, and your support is what can keep the tides flowing.
The best way to help (and get more) is using TideCast, the new worldwide version:
• 4,700+ stations globally - not just the UK
• Full tide chart, glance, and next-tide countdown
• Free for today & tomorrow; Plus adds the full 7-day forecast, any station, and background refresh
ORIGINAL-USER THANK-YOU: your first year of TideCast Plus for just £1.50 (then £3.99/year, cancel anytime).
1. Install "TideCast" from the Connect IQ Store
2. On the watch: MENU - Activate Plus, then follow the link to tide.0-21.co.uk/plus
3. Add promo code TIDELE1 at the payment page - first year £1.50, then £3.99/year after that
Not ready to switch? You can still help keep the service running - buy me a coffee at buymeacoffee.com/leeev. Every bit genuinely helps.
Thank you for being here from the start. - Lee
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This version has 7 days of cached UK Tide data (so you don't need to update as often and you can see yesterdays tides along with the next 6 days).
Also has the ability to enter a postcode (short or full) to override the watches gps/wether position. Helpful if you live in a different place to where you want to know the tide (tidal flow)
UK Tide information [UK ONLY] for Global tides please use my other widget TIDECAST
There is a choice of UK Tide data Sources available via app /widget settings using the ConnectIQ phone app.
Widget will automatically locate the nearest tide/station based on Garmin weather location or GPS (lat/long)
or be set via a manual postcode entry (added via widget settings) this override can be toggled on/off via both the widget in watch and via ConnectIQ app settings.
Glance view shows the next tide information (rising/falling and high low tide time and tide height)
Main view shows
- Tide station name from where data is retreived and distance
- Next 2 tide times also shows Tide direction (Rising/Falling), countdown to next tide and tide heights
- Press Select (triangle) button to show addtional dates of cahed tide data (6-7 days cache), back button to return to main view.
- Hold Menu: Allows a manual refresh of data and refresh of GPS (if enabled in settings) & select postcode override
This widget requires a phone connection in order to download the data.
lat/lng data is used to determin nearest UK tide station. If outside uK data from nearest station will be shown along with a notification that you are outside the UK (station data only available for UK currently)
Please save the settings via Connect IQ before loading the widget
Please use the contact developer if any issues.
Please note: I am NOT a developer by profession, this was a personal project to learn some coding.
***** Please leave some feedback, features, issues etc ******
::Features::
Choice of 2 data sources
Prompt to refresh/re-open widget on stale data
Added a graphical bar on glance view
If you like the widget, buy me coffee @ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/leeEv
What's new
Version 3.5
Feature request from Darron07: Now showing abbreviated day of week on date list
Verson 3.4
Added support for Forerunner 165
Version 3.3
Layout change
Version 3.2
Bug fixes
Recompile with latest SDK 7.3.1
Newer models now supported Fenix 8 etc..
Additional feature:
Main Widget screen - current tide height. calculated via sinusoidal interpolation to give approximate realtime height (thanks Tom)
Version 3.1
Support for FR265 & 265s
Support for FR245
Bumped SDK tp 6.2.2
Version 3.0
**please note V.3** changes to data and field names may require an uninstall/re-install of the widget.
I have tried to handle this as best I can but in some devices a full remove/re-install may be required.
Redsigned layout for glance and main widget screen
Background refresh bug fix
Reduced memory requirements
Fix several layout issues on various watch models
Version 2.9
Fix for BST
Added suport for newer devices
Version 2.6
Added Glance view countdown
Version 2.5
5, 3 & 1 day auto/background refresh
Additional models supported
Updated code for newer SDK support
Version 2.1
Support for Forerunner® 255 series
Version 2.0 has
Select background data refresh interval (default set to refresh only on app open)
Glance and main views will inform you when the cached data has expired (if set to manual refresh simply open the widget to force new data load)
7 days of cached data.
Postcode override
Automatic Tide station detections usingn gps/wether position.
Notify when connection to phone not found (required for data load)
Option to use either GPS or Garmin wether location data
Show/Hide info [cache age, data source used, location source (gps/garmin/postode)]