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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tomulli over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

While changing the code I've managed to create few nasty bugs. Therefore still testing rather than send it out to the world and having too many complains. Need 2 more days max.

3112176 over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

Hello Developer,

The watchface is amazing. Thank You for such an amazing development. I'll would definitely like to pay for such an amazing development.

The Sunrise Data on my watchface is offset. Probably, representing data from some different time zone. Any idea, how may I fix it?

Thanks.

3112176 over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

tomulli over 4 years ago in reply to 3112176

yes, just get valid GPS for your location. E.g. start activity which uses GPS.

Valid fix is usually available in watch for short period of time. Therefore further behavior depends on how do you have set "Use default position if Activity GPS not available"

"Use default position if Activity GPS not available" = OFF
- Watchface will store last valid fix to the memory and will use it in case there is currently no valid fix avilable in GPS. What coordinates are being used for calculation you can check by temporarily enabling Latitude and Longitude fields. ( my Tactix Delta from time to time provides valid GPS fix on coordinates Lat=0 and Lon=0, i assume it is a Garmin bug, getting new valid fix by starting outdoor activity usually solves it).

"Use default position if Activity GPS not available" = ON
- Watchface will forget last GPS fix at the same moment as watch and will use pre-configured default coordinates from settings instead. When you install this face, default location points to Brno, Czech Republic (Lat=49.195061, Lon=16.606836). You can change it to your preferred one using Default Latitude and Default Longitude settings.

3112176 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Thank You. It works very well. Hoping to see parameters like Temperature, Pulse Ox (Last Pulse Ox Reading) and Weather too in the final update.

5690448 over 4 years ago in reply to tomulli

Hallo, dear developer. How is moving new update please? I hope,.no more weather reset issues? Cheers

7393977 over 4 years ago in reply to 5690448

Hello, how to set the seconds on the watch

8335570 over 4 years ago

Setting dissapear

Howl_Huxley over 4 years ago in reply to 3654735

Also suffering this. Any update?

tomulli over 4 years ago

Hi all, i am about to upload next version of v2 Beta. Some good and bad news connected.

Bad:
- Due to the too many issues with Garmin settings combined with background process and available memory in case of high settings count i have decided to disable web weather services for the moment and replace them with Garmin Weather API instead until root cause for all issues are fully understood.
That means watches where Garmin does not support weather services will not be able use it until Garmin will add it (affects 5series and Descent i think).
- Too many changes under the hood were required and they are not compatible with current release. You will need to uninstall face and install it back from the scratch in case you will experience crash after the update. Yes, unfortunately you will need to configure it again. Make sure you have note of your current settings.

Good:
- No settings resets in my watch
- I seem to have 8kB available memory for further features now, therefore i am going to work on settings backup feature

Garmin have currently another problems with apps updates and settings when using IQ store. Options we were used to are not available. This seems to affect all apps. You may need to do update manually (clicking download/install button in IQ store and resync watch worked for me) by using Garmin Mobile or Garmin Express. I also highly recommend to switch off automatic updates feature in IQ store.