Fenix 6 datafield to get value form www

Hi,

is there a way to get a datafield to show a value from a remote webserver?
here is my vision: I use my phone while I'm on water windsurfing, and I would want to have real time wind data from the local wind station.
I can get windstation values stored on my webserver in any format - plain txt, xml.. I would like my watch to fetch it and display while I have my activity recording.

I understand that I cannot access internet w/o the phone app, so I could have some waterproof phone in my wetsuit pocket, so I could have it available.

there is a wind data field app on the store, but it gives data with a 5min refresh rate and also from some official weather stations, which would be too far away from where I ride.

so basically in the end my task is kind of get a "Hello world!" from a remote web server and refreshed every few sec to give the realtime feelting.

I was going through the documentation of the communications and it seems that there are many limitations to reach outside world...

iOS or Android does not matter I could buy any for this project ;)

0 jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

You can do makeWebRequest calls but only from the background process of a DF. The background can run at most every 5 minutes. That's a restriction of backkground calls.

From a device app or a widget, you can do requests as often as you like, but widgets time out after 2 minutes on most devices.

0 mnts over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

thanks jim_m_58!
that's what I was afraid of. to get actual wind speed at 5min intervals is useless... as I could get a gust at one call of 10m/s and next second it could be just 6m/s.. but for 5min I would see reading of 10m/s.. or it could be the other way round.
and building a complete app with all the other fields - would be an overkill..

But hey - thanks for a quick reply!