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.

  • Hallo,

    As for me:

    - Wifi status removal-OK.

    - Removal of coordinates origin identifiers (".",":" and +/-1) for sunset/sunrise and latitude longitude fields-OK.

    - 2nd custom text removal. PLEASE DONT KILL IT.

    About graphs- i use HR filled line style only.

    And also i hope, you will keep sun and moon calculations without having to keep weather update permanently on.

    What did you decided about move bar?

  • Tomulli, i have just run once more through the settings.

    Features i dont need:

    -Wifi marker

     -Removal of coordinates origin identifiers (".",":" and +/-1) for sunset/sunrise and latitude longitude fields

    -Move bar

    -do not disturb indicator

    -square moon

  • As far as I'm concerned, there is no need for lat/long displayed in the WF.

    I also dont need it

  • Also personally me dont need DontDisturb indicator. Maybe it also helps to save some memory

  • Progress update:
    I was already able to get very close to the max used memory limit while removing only minimum functions (and adding few as well). Code itself became difficult to maintain which may result in many new bugs but i am starting to be a little optimistic which was not the case few days back.

    However, life would be too easy without problems, during testing i 've found weatherbit.io limited availability of hourly forecast which basically renders it useless (it also explains why some of you see only 'Loading Weather', they dont send data to you with free api key anymore)

    Few options to solve that:
    - stay with weatherbit, drop the hourly forecast and keep current/daily (this will save a little memory)
    - start using another weather provider
    Openweather seems good but offers only forecast each 3 hours rather then 1. They have new onecall API with hourly data, unfortunately amount of data cannot be processed by watch and it seems there is no option to limit their output as required at the moment.
    ClimaCell was my previous choice #1, offers all i was thinking about but it is very memory intensive which may be a challenge.

    Opinions, suggestions ?

  • - stay with weatherbit, drop the hourly forecast and keep current/daily (this will save a little memory. I see its the best way and simplest one

  • current works perfectly, and updater every 15 min, even 5 if you want.

  • Tomulli, i think staying on weatherbit will save you a lot of time, bugs and so on. Technically its the best and fast way for you

  • As for me, i need the current data were updated every 15 min. Temperature, wind direction,  wind speed, weather conditions icon. If Openweather does it as good as weatherbit, i am agree too.

  • As i see, Openweather looks like compromise. 

    Offers:

    Current conditions

    3h forecast

    Dayly forecast 

    Is memory friendly.

    Maybe some other opinions, friends?