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! :)

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

BigWeather is back!

Well, I've submitted it to the App Store again -- should be avilable in a few days.

* 0.03 - Sun 23 August 2015
(OPEN BETA VERSION)
Major rewrite!
Reduced memory footprint
Fixed the C/F issue (hopefully - if you have any issues please let me know the details)
Improved the 5 day forecast
- Woah! It was out by one day!
- Added the day name
- Temp shown is now high and low
- Reduced loading time and display of null sometimes
Cosmetic changes
- Loading screen tweaks
- Made the white text easier to read by making the shadow more pronounced

pashka79 over 10 years ago

Great
Would love to see it !!!!!!!
:)

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

New version is available - 0.04

* 0.04 - Mon 24 August 2015
Added minus sign for negative temperatures
Icon for clear weather wasn't showing
Corrected wind speed conversions!

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

Whoops! Sorry fixed. Pls download 0.04a

pashka79 over 10 years ago

On garmin Epix latest version i do not see forecast
And if you can please add direction to wind
Thank you for big work!
Pavel

Volker over 10 years ago

I get reboots of my Epix with latest version, when I try to scroll through the widgets with up or down button. When I delete your widget, no reboots, when I scroll through the widgets. Installed again, reboots...

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

On garmin Epix latest version i do not see forecast
And if you can please add direction to wind
Thank you for big work!
Pavel

What happens if you wait about 7 seconds on the 5 day forecast screen? Does it load? The thing it there is a lot of data returned for the 5 day forecast call and it takes time to send down to the watch via bluetooth. That's just a limitiation of the hardware. I am making a change so that the weather ic cached for 20 mins to improve load times. So if the widget was run less than 20 mins ago then read the weather stored, if not go and get it again.

To have the wind direction I think I will have to put it on the 2nd screen and move the wind speed to the second screen too and bring the pressure to the 1st screen.

pashka79 over 10 years ago

After 10 second in waiting forecast my Epix make a restart

ruperthawkes over 10 years ago

I think the app has run out of memory maybe. I wonder if the epix has a lot less memory than the 920

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

I think the app has run out of memory maybe. I wonder if the epix has a lot less memory than the 920

A CIQ widget can be up to 64k on all devices - but I understand that 64k includes the code, loaded images and the Object Store. As the Epix supports 64 color images, could the images be bigger there because the 920 is only 16 color?

"Out of Memory" should show a "IQ!" screen and not do a hard crash. Check if there is a ERR_LOG.txt file on the root of the device and pass it on to the CIQ folks.

In the 2.90 FW for the vivoactive, I did see a weird crash that occurred when getting the data back from a makeJsonRequest() (it's now been fixed), but maybe the same problem is still in the Epix FW..