How Do We Simulate Altitude On a Watch Face

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi Connectors,

I want to add altitude data to my watch face. I am aware that, for watch faces, altitude data goes only so far as the last altitude read during the last activity using Activity.getActivityInfo().altitude.

Is there a way to simulate this? Nothing stands out in the simulator options. Perhaps import a fit file?

This goes for all the members of the Activity::Info class. The watch face does have access to this class (using SDK 1.2.5) and there is data abound to be accessed, yet, no way to simulate it.

Thanks,
Jeff

Stanislav.Bures over 9 years ago

Former Member over 9 years ago

Tried that. The function returns 0.00000

Stanislav.Bures over 9 years ago

maybe is bad your code :-)

//nadmorska vyska

var vyska = "";

var jednotky = "";

        if( Acty.getActivityInfo().altitude != null ) {        		

			if(Sys.getDeviceSettings().elevationUnits == Sys.UNIT_METRIC)

				{

				vyska = Acty.getActivityInfo().altitude.toFloat();

				vyska = vyska.format( "%.0d" );			

				jednotky = " m"; 	

				}

        	else

        		{

				vyska = Acty.getActivityInfo().altitude.toFloat() * 3.2808399;

				vyska = vyska.format( "%.0d" );			

 				jednotky = " ft"; 

				} 

				}

		else{	

			vyska = "No data";

			}

				dc.setColor(color1, Gfx.COLOR_TRANSPARENT); 

				dc.drawText(width/2, 50,Gfx.FONT_XTINY, vyska + jednotky, Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);

				dc.drawText(width/2, 64,Gfx.FONT_XTINY, "altitude", Gfx.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER);

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 9 years ago

I did a quick test of this, and I'm able to get altitude in the simulator in a watch face. It's crude, but all I did was:

Sys.println(Toybox.Activity.getactivityInfo().altitude);

...inside my onUpdate().

When I simulate FIT data, I get simulated altitude values. At the very least, this proves the case. I'm not sure about the particulars of your app, so its difficult for me to make more specific suggestions.