Watchface : make a move bar decrease

Hi,

I'm trying to make a watchface that shows the move bar decrease when user is walking.

No need to make it blink.

In simulator I noticed that the level goes from 0 to 5 and when I set steps in the config, it resets to 0 (not 4, 3 2 1 0).

In manual docs, it's said that if the user makes 200 steps (continuously) the bar resets.

My question is about the "continuously".

Does anyone know what is the ratio steps/time that the watch considers continuous?

Thanks for your answers!

0 jim_m_58 over 4 years ago

The sim probably shouldn't clear the move bar until the required number of steps to clear the move bar are counted. Try a native watch face and turn on the move alerts on the device.

The first (large) segment of the move bar is 1 hr, and to clear just that takes about 100 steps. The next 4 (smaller) are each additional 15 minutes (25 steps). So clearing all 5, is 200 or so steps. Once you have the move bar, you can't clear part of it. You can only clear it all, so based on the number of segments, 100,125,150,175, or 200 steps. And you want to do these steps without stopping. (200 steps will only take a could minutes for most). That's the continuous part.

Like I said, you'll see this in native stuff (non CIQ) and when you first get the move alert and when the move alert is cleared.

It's been this way since garmin first introduced the move bar.

0 wormboy74 over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks for your answer.

I understand the mechanism. I've noticed that you can't clear only segments, user have to clear all the bar.

With the native steps app, when you start walking, the move bar level blinks segments by segment (from 5 to 1) depending on the user steps.

I also made some real tests. When I've got the full bar, I walk few steps, the segment 5 starts to blink. When I stop, the movebar is full again. Ok for this.

My question is more about the steps cadence (for 200 steps) needed to clean the whole bar.

Is it 1step per second? 5 ? 10? In the SIM like I said, whatever the steps per minute I set, the movebarlevel resets (for example: 1 per minute). But in native steps app, if I make 1 step per minute, movebarlevel won't reset.

The aim of my question is to make a move bar, as you can find it in step app (without blinking). And when user is walking 25 steps (in x minutes or seconds), the last segment disappear, then the 4th, 3rd... It's just I didn't find the cadence needed.