Datas from Widgets in a WatchFace

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hi,

Is posible to show in a WatchFace datas from Widget, for example Widget of Weather or Last Activity or similar? Which is the code I have to write to show those datas? Or how I call the Widget and How their shows the datas? I saw a WatchFace which show those datas, but I want to do my own WatchFace with that.

Thanks for all and your help

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jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to xberzerker +2

You can only do Comm from a watchface by way of a background service. Watches like the f3hr (it's CIQ 1.4) don't support background services, so you can't use that. The current generation of…
xberzerker over 1 year ago +1

dudes i am still stuck within this drama:

i have a watchface, running on watches with rest support, yet no background support, like fenix3_hr.

how can i possibly have data from rest services on my watchface…

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jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to xberzerker

Correct.

xberzerker over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

oh man, it's hard to blv. been struggling to port my watchface to fenix3_hr periodically after so long.
and even forerunner45 and 235, now i will have to give up on them.
such a waste. please let me know if this come to change by any chance.

jim_m_58 over 1 year ago in reply to xberzerker

It wont change. These devices are all CIQ 1. If they could support a background service, it would have happened back when background services were first introduced, and they won't see new functionality like this.