Memory usage

1) and 2) Interesting, I was working with OpenWeather and Accuweather and haven't been able to get the parameters to filter it down. I had no idea the memory restrictions, that makes a lot of sense. Maybe I can parse the JSON before exiting the background thread.

jim_m_58 said:

With 3.2 devices, you can skip this whole thing and just use the new Weather Module in CIQ, and just use the Garmin weather data already on the watch.

Apparently I'm an idiot, not sure how I missed this. Thank you very much, good sir.

I was thinking of darksky with the parameters to reduce data.  I don't need to do that with OWM or WU.

Here's a watch face of mine that uses garmin weather if you want to see how it works - It's also got on device settings:

apps.garmin.com/.../c051f37a-8fad-4907-b124-0112fe010c91.

Looks like Dark Sky is no longer available: https://blog.darksky.net/. So I can't test their API to see what size a response they provide.

OWM is the one I'm using. Maybe I missed something, but while there is an API for current conditions that returns a reasonable size, I haven't found one like that yet for future conditions.

Not sure if you intended it that way or not, but I can't see the source code for that app. So I can see the results, but not how you did it.

Yes, darksky is pretty much gone.  Any time you're trying to get a forecast (hourly, daily), you're talking a large amount of data, and doing it in a background services will be very difficult.

Here's a small bit of code where I display the hourly forcase using what's in 3.2.  It's really pretty simple.

hasWeather I declare at the class level, and in initialize() I set it with 

hasWeather=(Toybox has :Weather);

makeTime and makeTemp are just helper functions to display the time and temp is a friendly format.  Code blocks don't seem to be working today..  Sorry.

if(hasWeather) {

var hf=Weather.getHourlyForecast();
if(hf==null) {
dc.drawText(centerW,y,largeFont,"No 1hr forecast",Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);
} else {
var sz=hf.size();
dc.drawText(centerW,y,smallFont,"1hr forecast ok, sz="+sz,Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);
y+=smallHeight;

var i=0;
while(i<sz) {
dc.drawText(width*.33,y,smallFont,makeTime(hf[i].forecastTime)+" "+makeTemp(hf[i].temperature)+degree,Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);
i++;
if(i<sz) {
dc.drawText(width*.66,y,smallFont,makeTime(hf[i].forecastTime)+" "+makeTemp(hf[i].temperature)+degree,Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);
i++;
}
y+=smallHeight;
}

}
} else {
dc.drawText(centerW,y,largeFont,"Weather NA",Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);
}

Dark sky is gone.  An alternative you may look into is AerisWeather.  Their API gives many options to filter and request specific data, however their API is not free.

www.aerisweather.com

So, I looked into the weather options for 3.2 - and I understand you had some influence there, and honestly it looks like it will be really nice someday.

Unfortunately, a lot of devices are not at 3.2 yet, and it is still missing quite a few pieces of information one might want about the weather. Hopefully it will get there in the future.

The info in 3.2 appears to be only what's needed for Garmin's weather widget.  What the watch already had is just being exposed in CIQ.  

I really doubt the memory available for a background service will change, so you got that limit as to what you can do.

same problem for me, the hourly seem to return too much data sometimes and haven't find a way to limit the hour range

Dark sky might be coming back. But it is not the same as it used to be. You can try Climacell API. They have various plans that you can choose from according to your needs.