Watchface: CountDown 2 Event

This is a watchface showing a countdown timer towards a specific event in the future.
Together with the countdown, it displays the time, date and battery strength in %.
Support for 12/24 hour with am/pm indicator for 12 hour format.

When the event starts, it removes the timer and displays a message that the event has started.
As soon as the event finishes, it display a proper message telling you that the event is over.

Currently the start and end dates of an event is hard coded for each app.
After an event has finished, the app will be updated in the app store to display the countdown for the next annual event.
Users will then have to update the app from the store.

Currently the following marathons are supported:

Comrades Marathon 2015
Berlin Marathon 2015
Chicago Marathon 2015
Frankfurt Marathon 2015
New York Marathon 2015
Tokyo Marathon 2016
Two Oceans Marathon 2016
London Marathon 2016
Boston Marathon 2016

Here are the links for the apps:

CountDown 2 Comrades 2015 (Black)
CountDown 2 Comrades 2015 (White)
CountDown 2 Berlin Marathon 2015
CountDown 2 Chicago Marathon 2015
CountDown 2 Frankfurt Marathon 2015
CountDown 2 New York City Marathon 2015
CountDown 2 Tokyo Marathon 2016
CountDown 2 Two Oceans 2016
CountDown 2 London Marathon 2016
CountDown 2 Boston Marathon 2016

Wish list:

Bluetooth indicator

Please send me any questions, suggestions and requests for other events.
You can reply here or you can contact me on Twitter: @hermoter

Regards,

hermot

Gallery:

HermoT over 10 years ago

I'd love to get some feedback and have people test these watch faces.
Also I need confirmation on start times of each marathon.

Some of the marathon sites are not very clear about start times and maximum time to finish the race.

Any help will be appreciated.

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hello,

I Like the watch very much. I do hope that other Marathons timer will follow. I would appreciate the Frankfurt Marathon, 25. October, 10 a.m. start time ;-)))

Best regards
Dietmar

HermoT over 10 years ago

Hello,

I Like the watch very much. I do hope that other Marathons timer will follow. I would appreciate the Frankfurt Marathon, 25. October, 10 a.m. start time ;-)))

Best regards
Dietmar

Added to the coming soon list ;)

HermoT over 10 years ago

Hello,

I Like the watch very much. I do hope that other Marathons timer will follow. I would appreciate the Frankfurt Marathon, 25. October, 10 a.m. start time ;-)))

Best regards
Dietmar

Frankfurt Marathon CountDown watch face now available
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/43dab60a-7797-44cd-a55e-aec417f94f5c

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

This will an ideal candidate for "user configuration" of CIQ stuff when that's available in the future!

HermoT over 10 years ago

This will an ideal candidate for "user configuration" of CIQ stuff when that's available in the future!

Exactly! Really hoping for that to be added in future!

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hermot, many thanks for the Frankfurt Marathon timer!!!!

HermoT over 10 years ago

Hermot, many thanks for the Frankfurt Marathon timer!!!!

You are more than welcome!
Good luck with training for it!
😃

Adrenochrome66 over 10 years ago

Ironman Lake Placid would be great!

HermoT over 10 years ago

I had a negative review that made me re-think my strategy with the countdown timer.

The question whether I will make this timer for every race in the world, is actually very good, because it forced me to think where I will draw the line.
Apart from it consuming a lot of time, which I choose to spend as I like and doesn't hurt others, it takes up a lot of space in the Connect IQ store gallery.

I do understand that people could become irritated and annoyed by seeing the same app, albeit for a different race, over and over on every page. The only two things that differ is the race name on the watch face, and the logo being displayed in the store. I respect others' view and therefor would withdraw if so desired by the community.

It would have been OK if Garmin provided a separate category so that I could group my watch faces into a single group that would have occupied just a single spot in the gallery for watch faces.

There are two things that this very young project of mine points out, and I really hope that Garmin will take note of this and improve:

1) User configurability for watch faces
There is a demand, both from users and developers to be able to configure a watch face.
In my countdown example, it would have been the perfect solution if there was a way for a user to provide his own event name and date.
Then I could have published just one watchface, and it would have been reusable, time and time again.

2) Categorizing apps in the gallery is not optimal. Like mentioned before, it would have been better to group all my countdown timers into a single spot in the gallery instead of displaying all of them among all the others.

I think I might have created the very last two countdown timers tonight:
Ironman Lake Placid (@Adrenochrome66)
and
Amsterdam Marathon.

This project started as a fun hobby the moment I got my new 920XT, and was driven by my passion for some of the races for which I created the first countdown timers. But I realise that this is not sustainable and hope that Garmin Connect IQ can take note of the issues outlined here.