Stress Level Notifications

I would like to be notified every time my stress level reaches a certain threshold (e.g. 70 or more for 5 or more minutes). I would use this to remind myself to slow down and maybe breathe/stretch for a few minutes to break the cycle.

Ideally, Garmin would build this into the watch as a feature.

Alternatively, as a developer, I'd be happy to develop this functionality as an app but I don't think the SDK currently allows this (i.e. I don't think I can have a background app that's notified on such stress-related events). If anyone has ideas, please share.

waterkip over 3 years ago

You can get to the data: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/SensorHistory.html#getStressHistory-instance_function
Perhaps combining that with https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Background.html#registerForTemporalEvent-instance_function

You probably want to read https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/backgrounding/ first and see how to go from there with the above links.

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to waterkip

You can use SensorHistory,getStressHistory directly in a watch face without using a background service. Just keep an eye on it in onUpdate and display a message if it's above a certain level for 5 minutes or more.

kociubin over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

How can I display a message? I didn't think watch faces cod do that.

Thank you.

kociubin over 3 years ago in reply to kociubin

Ideally I'd like to alert a user with a tone or vibration but it doesn't look like that's available to watch faces.

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to kociubin

You can't use a tone or vibration in a watch face, but you can display different text in place of or on top of something else.

kociubin over 3 years ago in reply to waterkip

waterkip, thank you for the suggestion. I wasn't aware of the registerForTemporalEvent API. I'll look into this further. It looks like it might work.

jim_m_58 over 3 years ago in reply to kociubin

No tones of vibrations in a background service either, plus there you are limited to one reading every 5 minutes at most.

1328106 23 days ago

Did you finished the project?