connect IQ app that counts a minute

I am a nursing student and need an app that counnts a whole minute when taking vital signs.

Have tried those watchfaces with second hands but they disappear after a few seconds.

Using a stopwatch seems unnatural, but it could work.

We are required to wear a watch with a second hand... too old fashioned if you ask me. So I am just here looking for alternatives.

Thanks!

HermoT over 10 years ago

I am a nursing student and need an app that counnts a whole minute when taking vital signs.

Have tried those watchfaces with second hands but they disappear after a few seconds.

Using a stopwatch seems unnatural, but it could work.

We are required to wear a watch with a second hand... too old fashioned if you ask me. So I am just here looking for alternatives.

Thanks!

Not possible unless you can find a developer who will write you a watchface that runs the onUpdate every second, regardless of low power mode.
But then the battery won't last long.

I think this is one example of where Garmin watches aren't a good fit for the use case you described.

Nikeow over 10 years ago

i take it you can't use the built in stopwatch? As in not allowed to? (To press as one buttns to get to stopwatch and press to start it?)

gasteropod over 10 years ago

Sounds like a widget which just counts down from 59 to zero is what you want. This should not be too hard to create for an app developer.

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

At least on the vivoactive (and I believe it's so on other devices), the default (system) watchface displays seconds all the time. Could you just use that while working?

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

Sounds like a widget which just counts down from 59 to zero is what you want. This should not be too hard to create for an app developer.

On the va, a widget without comm permissions is only displayed for about 10 seconds. Widgets on other devices may last a minute. If this were done as an app, it could just display hh:mm:ss the whole time it's running. (like a watchface that's never in low-power mode.)

gasteropod over 10 years ago

I did not know that Jim. I have a fenix3 and just checked with an app I am developing and it stayed on the screen for 2 minutes (not 1 as you mention) which I knew would be enough for a 1 minute countdown. I was not aware other watches widgets did not last so long. 10 seconds is way too short IMHO for most widgets I would want to look at.

So, yes, it would have to be an app rather than a widget on devices where widgets do not last long enough. The beauty of a widget (at least on the fenix) is that it would be a single button press away if the last widget in the list. I envisaged pressing the up button which could start immediately counting down from 59 with a large number font and vribating/beeping once it got to zero.