Calander events

Hi everybody,

I have bought a Fenix 5 recently and now planning to create my own watch face. I have went through the SDK page and took a look at the APIs. For the watchface I plan I would need access to the calander on the device itself (in my case a windows phone) to get the start and end time of all events on a particular day. There is a data field showing the next event to start so there must be a way to get those information. Can anyone help me with that?

Thanks!

Bye

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Talkabout over 8 years ago +1

Thank you for the explanation!

This is bad luck... What I wanted to do is creating a circle around the watchface showing upcoming events. This is a feature I know from another smartwatch... The SDK seems…

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jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

If you want to get it off a phone, you can't from a CIQ watchface. No comm is allowed in a watchface. (and there are a number of other things a watchface can't do, like access sensors in real time, beep, vibrate, etc.)

You could do it in a widget or watch-app. CIQ data fields can't get data from a phone either. Here's a widget for google calendars for example:

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/b90900ca-af5d-4c68-a1ba-f4f6c7ecf0ba

Talkabout over 8 years ago

Thank you for the explanation!

This is bad luck... What I wanted to do is creating a circle around the watchface showing upcoming events. This is a feature I know from another smartwatch... The SDK seems to update those information internally as there is a widget and a data field providing this kind of information. It wouldn't be necessary to access the data directly from the phone but simply reuse the data that the watch is anyways loading from the phone. So basically an API calender object updating itself maybe every half an hour and giving access to this information.

This would allow great smartphone feature implementations :) Maybe the Garmin developers can think about this.

Bye