Watchface: Digital for TactixD and Digital for TactixD v2 Beta

This is forum to streamline questions processing, feature requests, bug reporting and general discussion regarding
Digital for TactixD face: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/d4fbcc93-5e5e-4030-8278-2bd8463921db
Digital for TactixD v2 Beta: apps.garmin.com/.../15c35159-bae3-4c12-8539-5305ccd1b933

Idea behind this face is that the best face is the one which is set exactly as i want it.

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Q&A:

Why there are so many settings available? It is hard to navigate through them:
Sending watchface user defined parameters such as color, font and screen placement through app settings seems to be the only available option at this moment. Amount of settings is a tax for having many objects available. During time i've found out there are also problems and limitations coming with amount of settings, therefore version 2 is being in development where at least some of the fields configuration will be simplified.

Why are my settings changes not reflected on WatchFace ?
It seems this issue is tied to Garmin CIQ app which is not able handle huge amount of settings properly. When settings are done through Android/iOS Garmin Mobile app all should work as expected.

Will be there Weather details available ?
Yes, weather is in progress and will be included in v2 version. Currently testing various weather providers APIs and fighting with best details visualization on the screen.

Why is my language not supported i see only squares instead of characters ?
During short life time of this face 26 custom fonts have been already requested and implemented. Fonts consume a lot of available resources, therefore characters are limited to the absolute minimum => english characters and numbers only. Languages with 'special' characters such as czech, russian, japanese etc. cannot be supported until more resources will be available to watch faces. Toggle button "Force English Day/Month Name" to force most exposed fields to english has been implemented instead.

Will more features be implemented ?
Yes, i am adding more features based on incoming requests. Priority is usually set by amount of requests.

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Justbtm over 4 years ago in reply to Pegase747

Just change simple data like some color. And try again. Don't change a lot of data at the same time. If it works, you can step by step to change other data. And then you may find which data is been changed would caused reset situation.

Justbtm over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

How do you solve the weather problem? How to show up the temperature at the right top?

Pegase747 over 4 years ago in reply to Justbtm

Still resetting itself whatever I do. I will wait for Tomulli to fix it

For the top right temp just select it but it is at the same coordinates than the weather icon so one of them have to be moved.

Cheers Pierre

tomulli over 4 years ago

Regarding settings resets during settings change. That's something what i started to see approx 3 weeks back and reason why i delayed the release. I was not able to determine any trigger so far. Settings itself are actually stored on Garmin servers and are being pushed to the watch by Garmin app. Seems like sync after new settings are successfully pushed to the watch is not working properly. Although i cannot rule out something wrong int he app itself i started to suspect issue on Garmin side as well as i am aware of at least one more developer having similar problem. Expected behavior is defaults will be stored on servers only in case there is a watch crash right after the settings change.

So far i did not see spontaneous reset while settings changes were not performed. If you do, please report with as many details as you can provide. In my case settings are always properly changed on the watch however next time i am trying to modify settings via CIQ Store or Garmin mobile app default setting are preloaded to the app. This is absolutely random. Other impacted developer reported if he waits longer time period before he attempts new settings modification all looks ok, i was not able to replicate this.

On a different topic:
I am also receiving two types of unidentifiable errors thru Garmin errors reporting tool for:
F5/5X/plus running SW version 7.10 and 7.70
6S running version 2.30
6Pro/6XPro running version 3.00 and 3.10

Those are very old software versions. Upgrade may be required as those are not expected to run stable.

5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

After many attempts and crashes with resets to default i ve got what i want. Full current weather dates on top! As a result i have a miracle watch, which shows me all important for me features at once.

Now we just need settings stability. So will be waiting for further updates and stabile versions.

Huge thanx, tomulli!!

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5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

But just crashed randomly to defaults after 15 minutes

Justbtm over 4 years ago in reply to Pegase747

1. Enable weather features

2. Show weather forecast block

3. Show current weather icon

4. Show small current temperature icon

5. Show current temperature

6. Show current weather text Info

I just turn the 5 show current temperature. Others are turn off.

tomulli over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

What watch software version do you run please ? System -> About
Provide data from both, screen with Unit ID+main SW version and also screen with CIQ, GPS etc. versions. thanks in advance

Justbtm over 4 years ago in reply to Justbtm

7. Watch measured temperature instead of weather one

If I turn on this, it works. But weather temperature doesn't work.

5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

I use 9.0 software. CIQ is on android 10, samsung galaxy note 10.
ICQ version 4.30 from 28/04/2020 ( from googleplay)