Can I update/change user stats, like weight, from a widget?

Former Member over 9 years ago

Can I update/change user stats, like weight, from a widget?

How about form an app?

What I really want to do is make a Watch face with persistent, selectable options that can be selected from a companion widget (or app.)
Is there any way to save data to the watch that can then be retrieved from a Watch face?

The Watch face can retrieve user weight data, so I thought I could use the least significant digit in the users weight (no one will notice a 10 gram weight fluctuation) to save some Watch face state data.

jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

Nope. You can't change ANY setting from connect IQ. And no shared data in CIQ between apps/widgets/watchfaces.

travis.vitek over 9 years ago

What I really want to do is make a Watch face with persistent, selectable options that can be selected from a companion widget (or app.)

Garmin is already working on providing this. Users should be able to modify settings from within the Garmin Connect app. I think it is probably best to either be patient and wait for this feature to be complete or to leverage the code this guy claims to have written to read/write the application configuration settings.

Is there any way to save data to the watch that can then be retrieved from a Watch face?

The code that was hinted at should allow writing a settings file directly. Users could just tweak the settings file on their computer and then copy it to the appropriate location on the device.

Former Member over 9 years ago

Thanks Travis.

I am kind of baffled that Garmin would release such a restricted OS for us to use.

I just do this just for fun, but when I can't do what I want to do (and especially when it is intentional by Garmin) it becomes not fun rather fast. That said I am glad to find there are plans to fix these shortcomings, but it sure is taking a long time, that post you linked goes back to March.