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Watchface: Digital for TactixD and Digital for TactixD v2 Beta

tomulli
over 4 years ago

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.

  • over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

    Dear Tomulli,  so whats your final desicion?

    It looks, noone wants to discuss, except me and you.

  • over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

    Hi all,

    Happy with any decision regarding weather.

    Weatherbit is good with the hourly update,but I am quite happy with aponweather on other apps as well.

    My choise is weatherbit if you can make it work.

    Cheers from Hong Kong

  • over 4 years ago in reply to Pegase747

    My personal wish also is to stay at weatherbit, Tomulli.

  • over 4 years ago

    5x Plus APAC cant download. How can i install this watchface  

  • over 4 years ago in reply to 8335570

    i am afraid APAC models do not have required version of firmware yet.

  • over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

    Hallo, dear Tomulli! So what was your final desicion about weather supplier?

    Cheers

  • over 4 years ago

    Hello,

    I don't really understand the xy position. :-(

    For example I want set the seconds directly behind the minutes. How will I know what are the right coordinate?

  • over 4 years ago in reply to tkuehler1

    XY are coordinates on the screen where objects will be put, Tactix has 280x280 pixels screen. you can imagine it as a square around the rounded watch screen like on the picture below. [0,0] left upper corner, [140,140] as a center of the watch etc. Obviously if you'll put something to 0,0 it is outside of display and you cannot see it.


    Other part of the game is justification (alignment) which can be left, right or center, same as in the text editors. In this watchface justification is separate for clock and rest of the objects.
    If you want seconds next to the clock, just align clock to the right so you know where your minutes part will always be and put seconds next to it (you can keep whole watch text alignment/justification default -  to the center).

  • over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

    I am not decided yet, both ClimaCell and Openweather are sub-ideal from data amount which i need to load to the background and both companies replied to my request for option to limit what they send back that they will include it in next API version release,  noone known when it will be.

    I am currently testing both.

    Happy to report i did not have reset during last 4 days of latest code testing on my watch, unfortunately the cost of it is amount of memory available to the background process which takes care of weather data processing. It is now half (10kB) compared to what it used to be and allows to process current plus 2hours/days forecasts only.
    (Within this 10kB i need to fit code, data received and all processing memory requirement. Loading 5days/hours forecast runs out of memory as data response itself is 7kB.)

    As I am trying to keep current +5xhourly/3hourly + 5xdaily forecast idea last step is to find balance between data received size (eg. split single 5hours requests into 5requests), data requests frequency and total amount of requests sent to the weather provider due to the most of the free ones having limit 500-1000 requests a day