Weather.getCurrentConditions() on D2 Deltas

Hi - I have put together a watchface that uses Weather.getCurrentConditions() and shows related weather info like temp, wind direction/speed - works just fine on the MARQ sim (on both SDK 3.1 and 3.2). However, the highest SDK I can choose in the Manifest xml to serve the D2 Deltas is 3.1, When I do that and run my watchface, the compilation chokes on Weather.getCurrentConditions(), saying:

Error: Symbol Not Found Error
Details: Failed invoking <symbol>
Stack:
- onUpdate() at [...]\View.mc:47 0x1000010a

That line is where I invoke Weather.getCurrentConditions() - again, it works on Marq, but not on any D2 (except on the new D2 Air, of course).

Of course it's also only now that I realize that the whole Weather class is actually marked as "since 3.2"..?
Garmin cannot seriously have excluded watches they still sell from displaying weather information, or what am I missing here..??

jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

Try using

if(Toybox has :Weather)

to see if weather is available.

You can do this once in initialize and set a Boolean, and later on just check the Boolean.

SvenMan over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks, that'll sure do the trick to prevent runtime errors from runtime errors - but so is that weather class really that new that it's not supported by e.g. the entire D2 series (except the new D2 Air)..? I'm pretty sure I had watch faces (both Garmin's and third party devs) that showed some weather bits and pieces.

jim_m_58 over 4 years ago in reply to SvenMan

Prior to 3.2, CIQ watch faces got weather data by doing a makeWebRequest to something like Open Weather Maps.

The Weather module is only available on devices that run CIQ 3.2. The D@ devices are running CIQ 3.1, with the new D2 Air being the exception (it's also amoled like the Venu, where you have to prevent burnin for an always on display)

SvenMan over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I see, thanks! I'm definitely surprised that it took Garmin 3+ major SDKs to make such basic stuff (from end users' perspective) available to developers. I'm looking forward to that upcoming developer conference... hopefully they surprise us with a new SDK and OS updates across the board with support for it... that would be a nice welcome for a newbie like me :)