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405: Weather & Tanita

Weather features:
Temperature, even without a sensor in the watch if the website can map your location then it should be able to see the temperature in the zip code via google or a weather service, (temp, wind, humidity, temp change over time, etc.). This is useful because when running or cycling you can track performance changes on a 110 degree day vs 75 degree day. I personally wouldn't want the sensor to be in the watch because my body temp could affect the reading. *And don't give me that do a manual update response, i bought the watch because i'm lazy and don't want to keep track of things manually!

Health Tanita features:
They have this for the cheap watches how about let the premium buyers tap into this feature as well.
http://www.tanita.com/en/bc1000/

*Core Temp Indicator:
Added after XFATMAN's comment. Might not be too realistic...swallow the pill, it communicates with the watch recording core temp...will have to think on if the pill should be reuseable
Lance's core temp reading

0 Former Member over 15 years ago

A bit impractical to do, I believe. Garmin is international, so they would have to provide this service for all countries where they sell. That means, they need to include every tiny little village on Earth. A temperature sensor in the watch is a better solution. And it's possible to place it so your body temperature won't affect it. You bought the watch because you're lazy? But you did know that it's a watch and not a thermometer, right?

0 DW152 over 15 years ago

A bit impractical to do, I believe. Garmin is international, so they would have to provide this service for all countries where they sell. That means, they need to include every tiny little village on Earth.

Actually, this is quite simple to do using a wx database. MB used to offer this, and some of the other software I use to analyze my Garmin activities currently do this. Besides elevation correction (which they just implemented), this is probably the most commonly requested feature.

0 JM405 over 15 years ago

A bit impractical to do, I believe. Garmin is international, so they would have to provide this service for all countries where they sell. That means, they need to include every tiny little village on Earth. A temperature sensor in the watch is a better solution. And it's possible to place it so your body temperature won't affect it. You bought the watch because you're lazy? But you did know that it's a watch and not a thermometer, right?

What!? and all this time i've been putting the ANT+ in my :eek: thinking i would get my core temp!...hmm...this could actually be an extra feature, add core temp to my request
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2cbq2PYT5I

0 georg-l over 15 years ago

I would love to see the weather condition saved with the ride/run. I agree that it should be fairly simple to incorporate:
Just enter your default home location and the website downloads weather info from a given site or even better, check the GPS data, were you're at and paste the data in automatically to your ride/run.