"Lux hours" doesn't mean anything

Yes.

This can be calculated. The battery life is shown. The data is collected & available.

CPUs are throttled based on several factors, a few of which are battery temp & remaining battery life.

Man... I don't know what your angle is to this such a dismissal of thus topic, but you keep finding ways to diminish the potential or the existence of the data or some way as to how it would never be possible & not calculable.

No such thing as a "new battery" per se. It's dying from the very moment it is produced and sitting in a package on a shelf until somebody buys it. This is such a red herring argument against the ability to display data that's already being pulled and calculated and used to show you your existing battery life but somehow suddenly once the battery gets "older" could no longer do so.

Like I said, battery data screens can be downloaded that shows some of this and I've already had some emails with the developer of the one I'm currently trying out. 

It's just ludicrous to think that this data isn't already pulled and calculated by the CPU. It's used in other areas you can see but somehow when it comes to luxe hours you think that data isn't available and can't be calculated. Your amount of pushback on this is mind-boggling.

Then how can it show you battery life? New or old? Any battery life? Come on man this doesn't even make sense... If it can show you battery life the day you buy the watch and it can show you the battery life 2 years later how is that explainable? Because the CPU can do the math or adjustments necessary. It's clearly already doing it it doesn't stop doing it because your battery is 2 years old.

Locked-N-Loaded said:

Then how can it show you battery life? New or old?

Where did you get the information that this is a value that was CALCULATED based on actual chemical ageing, and not an estimated value that makes an ASSUMPTION based on the charging cycles?

It's showing battery life!!! That implies it's making necessary calculations based on all manner of data. It's inferred. And, you don't know it's not. How do you know it's not? Basic logic tells you I'm likely more right than you are. 

Phones do this same battery temp calculation & will throttle CPU & battery usage. What, you think this watch can have multiple power modes battery percentages lux hours collect all of this data make necessary CPU throttling decisions but it can't calculate the benefit of your lux hours? 

OR.... Was the conversion and calculation just not thought about to be demonstrated in a meaningful way to the user so it wasn't provided. This happens all the time, which is why the app and the watch are updated to expand capabilities not originally released.

Yesterday. 5 days ago. 1 year ago. 1 year from now. It is showing you remaining battery life. Not only in percentage but in days. 2 factor conversion is being done. A 3rd factor taking into consideration solar lux hours is not rocket science.

Basic logic tells you I'm likely more right than you are. 

Locked-N-Loaded said:

It's showing battery life!!! That implies it's making necessary calculations based on all manner of data.

Let me ask you one more time. Where does Garmin say that?

How. Is. It. Doing. Battery. Life. Calculations.

How?

My battery life drops heavily when I'm using it for training. I had a day off training yesterday. Based on the battery data screen, hourly & daily % use dropped dramatically. Thus, it's calculating less battery usage and showing to me that fact. 

You keep thinking you got me in a gotcha moment but you have it. You haven't addressed the battery data screen I've told you about and you can't seem to grasp the basic concept that if in any way shape or form the battery is showing you percentage of life left or days of usage left that means it is doing calculations and pulling data from the CPU. There is no way around that. I'm not sure why you're not understanding that there's no other way to explain how it's displaying that data to you. 

You are an exasperating human being to try to debate this with

Locked-N-Loaded said:

It is showing you remaining battery life. Not only in percentage but in days.

Please publish the following details of your watch :

1) the displayed remaining running time in days when the display brightness is set to 5%.

2) the displayed remaining running time in days after you have set the display brightness to 100%.

No.

If I felt like you were open to this conversation properly, I might entertain you. But at every turn, all you've done is close the door and find a way to dismiss how showing this data would just be totally impossible. So I'm not going to sink that level of effort into your request because at the end of that effort will be some sort of dismissal of my effort.

Instead, I'll keep moving forward with the Garmin suggestions emails I'm having and those with the developer of the battery data screen and try to make this happen for the benefit of everybody who has interest in a lux hours conversion.

Goodbye Bluefish... It's been entertaining, but now has become pedantic, unproductive & an energy dump and according to my watch, you've used up 19% of my energy