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Widget : BigWeather

ruperthawkes
over 10 years ago
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! :)
  • over 10 years ago
    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..


    The widget was running fine on my 920 all day, but has now started to reboot the device after the 1st JSON request. Odd.
  • over 10 years ago
    Hi,

    On my first version 0.02 I have the correct unit for temp : Celsius

    After update and V 0.04 temp is now in Farenheit, so bad unit. Garmin Weather is still in Celsius.

    Temp unit is set to Celsius in Garmin Setup.

    Forecast stay in "Loading" until return to clock mode.
  • over 10 years ago
    Hi,

    On my first version 0.02 I have the correct unit for temp : Celsius

    After update and V 0.04 temp is now in Farenheit, so bad unit. Garmin Weather is still in Celsius.

    Temp unit is set to Celsius in Garmin Setup.

    Forecast stay in "Loading" until return to clock mode.


    Hi, what device do you have?
  • over 10 years ago
    VA Vivoactive firmware 3.2


    COuld you pls double check that on the VA itself what the temperature units are set to, it's in the system settings somewhere. Ta.
  • over 10 years ago
    COuld you pls double check that on the VA itself what the temperature units are set to, it's in the system settings somewhere. Ta.


    Temp is set to "Celsius"

    If temp is set to Farenheit the Garmin Weather Widget is displayed in Farenheit but now it display correct unit in Celsius.
  • over 10 years ago
    Hi,

    are you saying that BigWeather is displaying it correctly now?

    Ta
  • over 10 years ago
    No, like I said in my previous post it worked fine with temp in Celsius on my 0.02 version. 5 secondes later after update in 0.04 the temp was displayed in Farenheit so bad unit.

    I say that the normal weather widget provided by Garmin still display right unit in Celsius. It mean that the unit setup in Garmin Vivoactive are right and the mistake is in your widget ;)
  • over 10 years ago
    No, like I said in my previous post it worked fine with temp in Celsius on my 0.02 version. 5 secondes later after update in 0.04 the temp was displayed in Farenheit so bad unit.

    I say that the normal weather widget provided by Garmin still display right unit in Celsius. It mean that the unit setup in Garmin Vivoactive are right and the mistake is in your widget ;)


    I think I have resolved the issue but as I do not have a Vivo Active perhaps you could test the next version for me once available (hopefully tomorrow).