Widget: MyMetar

Former Member over 10 years ago

* Metar widget for the Fenix 3, D2 Bravo, Epix and Forerunner 920 XT.

* Made by a pilot for other pilots.

* Automatically detects the closest airport station, or create your own list of ICAO codes by pressing the START button within the widget.

* List of ICAO codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization_airport_code

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Changelog

1.2 Added support for Forerunner 920 XT and Epix.

1.1 Fixed an issue where the widget would crash if the icao station wasn't found.

1.0 Initial Release.

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Link to Appstore: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/bc28a9ee-df04-4534-b852-b17885f54064

I'm happy to receive suggestions and bug reports in this thread.

Cheers!

Gerd_Wengler over 10 years ago

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Looks very good, the TAF widget. I wouldn't mind scrolling through the information.

Former Member over 10 years ago

Thats the problem right now. The up and down buttons are not available when running as a widget (the os is using them for scrolling through widgets). So I'm thinking of maybe have a timer to flip through the different TEMPO sections. Keeping them visible for example 5 seconds at a time, while keeping the BASE information visible at all time. What do you think about that ?

Former Member over 10 years ago

One other solution could be to move the settings into "long press" the Up button, and then flip the TEMPO with the START button. Don't know which one that would be best. But i will try them both out to see which one that feels best on the wrist.

Gerd_Wengler over 10 years ago

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I do not know anything about progamming this. I do observe though, that you actually can scroll through the original METAR and weather widgets; you just have to short press the start button first.

Yes, auto scrolling would be OK, if the above does not work. Would be nice if one could set the scroll speed then.

Former Member over 10 years ago

Thats one other idea. Cheers! :)

Former Member over 10 years ago

Changelog for version 2.0

* Added TAF to selected station. Including 'BASE', 'TEMPO' and 'BECMG' when available.
* The START button now scrolls through the available METAR and TAF's.
* Changed the way the menu is displayed. It's now displayed by long pressing the MENU button.
* Added an information view when a bluetooth connection to the phone isn't available instead of showing an error.
* Fixed an issue where the wrong units sometimes where shown.
* Fixed an issue where CB (Cumulonimbus) would not be displayed correctly.
* Various bug fixes and optimizations.

UH60M over 10 years ago

First I want to say Thank You! Coming from the D2 to the F3 I really missed some of my flight features, but this made my F3 perfect.

I wanted to let you know my watch has a small glitch with the new update. When I am viewing an airports Metar/TAF and hit the back button to go to the watch I get a IQ! Screen. I am using a custom watch face. It does not happen if I scroll up through all my screens to go back to the watch face. It also will not happen if I just scroll down. Only when I hit the back button.

Thanks again for your hard work! This is by far the best app yet for the connect IQ system. As a pilot I am slightly bias though ;-).

Former Member over 10 years ago

Excellent app minor bugs

Firstly this is an excellent app, probably one of the best in the IQ APP store.

On pressing start the first time the METAR reloads instead of moving on to TAF, not sure if this is intended.

Would it be possible to clear airport by airport rather than clear all?

Are couloirs blue, green yellow correct for VFR,MVFR,IFR as some use different ones.

Onto altimeter and barometer in line with D2bravo and more aviation tools!

Former Member over 10 years ago

First I want to say Thank You! Coming from the D2 to the F3 I really missed some of my flight features, but this made my F3 perfect.

I wanted to let you know my watch has a small glitch with the new update. When I am viewing an airports Metar/TAF and hit the back button to go to the watch I get a IQ! Screen. I am using a custom watch face. It does not happen if I scroll up through all my screens to go back to the watch face. It also will not happen if I just scroll down. Only when I hit the back button.

Thanks again for your hard work! This is by far the best app yet for the connect IQ system. As a pilot I am slightly bias though ;-).

Hmm. I haven't been able to duplicate that on my F3. I will try to see if i can find any problem with the back button and fix it! :) I do know that the view hierarchy isn't perfect. So i will try to fix that in a coming version. That goes for the metar that pushes on the first button press as well, even if metar is already showing.

And thanks. Such good feedback is really appreciated :)

//Fredrik

mikedwilson over 10 years ago

This looks like a very cool app. IS there any chance you could add support for the Vivoactive?
Thanks.