Widget : BigWeather

Welcome to

BigWeather

INTRO!

* Features
Displays weather information based upon your current GPS location. Supports 12 and 24 hour. Support metric and imperial. Supports C / F temperatures. Shows weather condition (icon and text), temperature (plus min and max temperature), humidity %, cloudiness %, wind speed and direction, pressure, sunrise and sunset times. Also shows a 3 day forecast (min/max temparature and humidity %).

* Notes
1) I rely on the weather data returned from a 3rd party (Open Weather API) so I cannot vouch for it 100%. Please don't leave negative feedback if the weather is incorrect, tell Open Weather!

2) If you *REALLY* want more accurate data (and/or) more weather data then one option is for you to pay for an API key for the 3rd party Work Weather Online service. Once Garmin allow customisation of widgets then I'll be able to switch to the World Weather Online weather feed. Until then please don't ask for stuff like 'chance of snow' etc as the free API doesn't allow this. Bottom line is if you want BigWeather to be far, far better then you'll have to be prepared to help me to help you!

USER GUIDE & FAQ

Want to know how to get the best out of BigTime or have a question, why not take a look at the User Guide and FAQ here

BUG REPORTS AND FEATURE REQUESTS

Please don't leave bug reports and feature requests when leaving feedback, please visit the Issue Tracker here

VERSION HISTORY!

Full version history is available here

IN CONCLUSION!

I am an independent software developer. I'm also a dedicated runner, passionate about my health/fitness and been an owner of many Garmin devices over the years (305, 310, 910, vivofit to name a few). If you would like to learn more about BigWeather see here www.boiledsweets.com/garmin

Now go, go run...

Thanks! :)

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

I doubt this is a CIQ bug, as I've had widgets like this for months. What it probably is, is that for some reason it's taking longer to get a GPS location at times. Do you have GPS on or off in your watch settings? if off, turn it on.

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

In the 920 there isn't an option to turn GPs on off or off.

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

One thing I've done in one of the widgets is this:

1) When I get a location from GPS, I save the lat/lon in the Object store.
2) next time the widget runs, I pull the lat/lon of out the object store, and skip doing the one shot, and just request data
3) if the user taps the screen, I then do the one-shot, save the resulting location in the Object Store, and then request data for that location.

This allows a user to have a "home" location, and the widget will always get the weather for that location, unless the widget is told to get a new location.

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

There isn't an option to turn gps on or off on the 920

Have tried repeatedly loading the sample weather app?

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

One thing I've done in one of the widgets is this:

1) When I get a location from GPS, I save the lat/lon in the Object store.
2) next time the widget runs, I pull the lat/lon of out the object store, and skip doing the one shot, and just request data
3) if the user taps the screen, I then do the one-shot, save the resulting location in the Object Store, and then request data for that location.

This allows a user to have a "home" location, and the widget will always get the weather for that location, unless the widget is told to get a new location.

That's cool it seems to be a workaround for the fact the one shot does work repeatedly. And one its screwed, it screwed for other widgets it seems. Is like garmin to confirm my findings, as I can repeat then over and over with their sample code

Former Member over 10 years ago

How do we get the second screen on the VA? There's no enter button to press :s

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

That's cool it seems to be a workaround for the fact the one shot does work repeatedly. And one its screwed, it screwed for other widgets it seems. Is like garmin to confirm my findings, as I can repeat then over and over with their sample code

It works consistently on a va for me. I just went for a walk down the block and ran the sample weather widget 20-30 times without a problem.

Have you considered it may be a HW problem with your 920? Or in your code, are you calling the one-shot multiple times due to a bug? (leaving something in a "confused" state?

Try rebooting your 920, and then trying the sample weather widget a number of times (nothing else), while you are outside in open sky.

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

How do we get the second screen on the VA? There's no enter button to press :s

The enter button on a va is the same as the start button. It's the real button on the right side.

DERSIE over 10 years ago

No issue on VA, it works every time I launch it (more than 15 time). I think it works OK as soon as the Garmin Widget Sunrise/Sunset works because it need also GPS device location.

Just it is impossible to have the second screen. And NO the Start button is no an "Enter" button on VA. "Start" button launch the Garmin App menu on all screen exept when activity is launched because it is the "Start/Stop" activity button in this case. No we can not call the second screen ;)

On Garmin Weather Widget we enter on 2nd screen by pressing (touch) the screen (idem on all widget with more than one screen).

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

Just it is impossible to have the second screen. And NO the Start button is no an "Enter" button on VA. "Start" button launch the Garmin App menu on all screen exept when activity is launched because it is the "Start/Stop" activity button in this case. No we can not call the second screen ;)

It might be that when handling this, it's returning "false" and not "true" for handling the button. Or could be a bug elsewhere. On the VA, "Swipe" might be a better method for changing screens. Swipe right or left.