Garmin Weather Update Behavior

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago

Hi everyone!

So after many test and log with a friend of mine,

we noticed that the Garmin Weather Update (for currentCondition) is made every 1hours, checked with observationTime,

but if you restart the device, observationTime takes the time when data are received by it.

(e.i : observationTime= 22h00, if I restart the device at 22h15, observationTime=22h15)

it seems like the weather update is initiated with a kind of background temporalEvent set to 1hour?

if yes, there is any way to make the update happened more often?

Something to force the update?

Maybe something to set on the Garmin Connect?

hope I was clear enought.

have a great day.

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jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) +1

This is something specific to GCM, so you may want to look in the GCM/iOS forum

https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-mobile-ios

Garmin weather is actually there for…

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jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

I see updates more than every hour, and I think what may be happening is when the watch connects, GCM requests the weather. It very well depend on the Garmin device. Android vs iOS.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Where I live and with a 245/m and an android phone, I see weather updates every 20 minutes.

Here's a watch face with Garmin Weather, and with on device settings, you can show "temp + time, or "all" for the weather and see when a device get's new weather.

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/c051f37a-8fad-4907-b124-0112fe010c91

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

once again you are right, this 1 hours update only happens on Iphone, 20min on Android,

do you know if there is any trick ar workaround or settings to do on Iphone to have it at 20min also?

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

This is something specific to GCM, so you may want to look in the GCM/iOS forum

https://forums.garmin.com/apps-software/mobile-apps-web/f/garmin-connect-mobile-ios

Garmin weather is actually there for native watch faces and the Garmin weather widget and it was first exposed in CIQ with 3.2. On some devices, like the 245m, the time of the data is also shown in the native weather widget.

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Many thanks, I havent think about this forum.

Will have a look At it.