Recovery with Decimal + Date (glance/widget app idea)

one of my biggest peeves with Garmin is they round many things to stupid whole numbers even though internally they track to fine detail

vo2max, recovery time, etc. (remember when Strava finally added decimals and made their site 100x more functional?)

an experienced developer can probably whip this up in a weekend (maybe even share the code to teach others?)

but if no-one does I might eventually try to do it myself as a first app someday this summer to learn

assuming it's technically possible in the first place

previously the CIQ API only made recovery time available in whole integer hours

but I noticed the API for newest devices ie. Fenix7 and newer seem to have additional info with Recovery time in minutes?

If that is correct and accessible, I'd like to see a replacement for Garmin's useless Recovery time widget/glance

adding decimal point and the target date+time

something like this visual mockup?

don't even bother showing minutes or days, just state everything in hours with single decimal 0.1 - 0.9

possible with newest API?

NOT via timeToRecovery

but rather Toybox.Complications API 4.2.0

COMPLICATION_TYPE_RECOVERY_TIME

API Level 4.2.0

Value is a Number of minutes remaining in your recovery time

flocsy🤠 15 days ago

If you manage to do it, I think it would make more sense to display it in HH:MM format instead of decimal hours.

Unfortunately the SDK only gives full hours, and not even from "now", but since the last activity (which is not very useful, and also a bit odd, considering that it can be delayed by not enough sleep) https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/ActivityMonitor/Info.html#timeToRecovery-var

RinseRepeat 15 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

ah okay there is good logic to HH:MM, I was thinking old-school

but what are the new API "Complications" with recovery in minutes ?

can that data be captured by an app/glance?

flocsy🤠 15 days ago in reply to RinseRepeat

According to the docs only watch faces can subscribe to complications

RinseRepeat 15 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

gosh Garmin keeps shooting themselves in the foot

other watches are just going to race by in app development, Garmin API is so outdated

So instead

could watch faces write that data to memory or storage where another app could access it?

Basically a companion app to a watch face

Unless watch faces can have other "pages" accessible, but I've never seen that done

RinseRepeat 15 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

adding: apparently watch faces can have companion apps that can access Complications

flocsy🤠 14 days ago in reply to RinseRepeat

No, the only way you can share data between 2 apps is via a web service