Any way to simulate different compass headings when testing an app?

I'm working on an app the uses "heading" to display different things - in this case, it shows the stars overhead, and so it uses the direction the watch is aimed to determine which part of the sky to show.

var sensorInfo = Sensor.getInfo();
var compassHeading = sensorInfo.heading;

So this all works fine, as a rule. But I've been doing some troubleshooting and have not figured out how to simulate different headings in the simulator. It just always returns heading 0.

Does anyone know how?

I can set lat & lon for the GPS, but not direction or bearing.

In the simulator simulation/navigation data I can set various fields: Bearing, Bearing from Start, and Track. None of those seem to affect the sensor heading received.

Is this something that can be done with an activity track or similar?

FlowState 1 month ago

Have you tried simulating activity data?

- From the simulator menu, select Simulation > Activity Data

- Press the play button in the lower left hand corner of the dialog

I found that this generates constantly changing, non-0 heading values for both Sensor.getInfo() and Position.getInfo().

BrentHugh2 said:
Is this something that can be done with an activity track or similar?

You can also use the activity data dialog to play sensor data from a FIT file.

BrentHugh2 said:
In the simulator simulation/navigation data I can set various fields: Bearing, Bearing from Start, and Track. None of those seem to affect the sensor heading received.

I think those settings only affect the corresponding fields in Activity.Info, returned by Activity.getActivityInfo().