Watchface: M2

HE spoke - aha we spoke on email on some of these

The body weight should be a simple change, so I'll try to add that this weekend.

For other number fonts, I can't add any more to M2 itself, but I'm still thinking about other versions with different font styles. If I can find some nice looking fonts that are free They're actually harder to find than you would think, especially when looking for fixed width number fonts.

Adding Open Weather Map is very very unlikely - but Garmin have recently added their own Weather API to CIQ (I don't know which forecast system it uses ...) and I'm looking to see what I can fit in using that.

JohnEvansDesign - good thoughts on weather too But I'm most likely to add whatever values come from Garmins weather API as it is all built in to CIQ now (rather than OWM or Accuweather). I don't know how good Garmins weather forecast is though

For myself I've used DarkSky for weather the last few years, but since they got bought by Apple I've had to stop using them as no iPhone. Still looking for someone else as reliable for my location ...

Markdotai - Thanks for the reply, and again all the time you have put into this. We look forward to whatever you can dig up about Garmin's weather API.

I'm trying to create a ring on the homescreen that tracks my training load kind of like the built in garmin one (I'm using forerunner 245 music).  I'm having some trouble though because I can't figure out how to scale it right.  I can get the start and end points of the ring right (8 o'clock and 4 o'clock) but the ring is filling too far.  I'm not trying to create the blue/green/red sections, just fill the home screen ring up to where the black arrow points to on the built in display function

9419549 - unfortunately Garmin don't make the official training load value available to CIQ watchfaces, so the value I calculate and display is a custom one and may not (well definitely won't match ) the Garmin one. So that might explain what you are seeing ...

The one calculated for M2 is based on active calories, a daily average for the last week, compared to your average over the last few months. If you burn your average number of calories the value is 100, of if you burn more then it's above 100 (so your training load is increasing) or below 100 then decreasing.

So it is kind of like a percentage value. If you burn twice as many active calories as normal then it should be 200. (But you would have to do it several days in a row).

When you display as a ring or bar then it always displays values from 0 at the start to 200 at the end. So an "average" value of 100 will be in the middle. (Which should be at your 12 o'clock the way you are setting it up like the Garmin one).

So maybe this matches what you are seeing?

It would be cool if Garmin ever do add the training load to what is available in CIQ. Maybe it is more likely now that they have bought Firstbeat.

Did anybody else experience higher battery usage after the update? Recently my Vivoactive 4 software got an update and ever since I have an increased battery usage of over 1%/hour.

(Usually it's around 0,3-0,5%/h with just the Watchface in use)

I thought that maybe the new update and the M2 Watchface have a problem that could cause this.

I don't think this battery drain is related to the M2 Designer.

Is it quite a known issue for the SW 11.10 upgrade, see forums.garmin.com/.../11-10-battery-drain---support-is-not-support

Different watch but maybe similar problems. The only "solution" I found so far was a factory reset. But tbh I'm sick of it. Had to do it three times already since I bought the watch a few months ago and it's just annoying setting up everything from scratch again.

You may also check some alternatives explained in that thread - like erasing some xml file etc.

But the comprehensive solution for this is on the Garmin's side, IMHO