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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Maruzko over 3 years ago

Hi,

Firstly, this is an excellent customizable watch face.

Some suggestions for v2

1. Be able to increase font of heart rate graph x axis labels

2. Be able to increase font of current + weather forecast display

3. Seconds on gesture

4. Current weather location name, suburb or town is enough to know, remove the country part

5. Number of alarms enabled, rather than just On

6. Speed optimization, fairly laggy when switching to a widget or the activity list

Thanks

6625755 over 3 years ago in reply to evanprobin

Hi, I have VA4, with this watch face average battery consumption (total, not just by watch face) 0,5% per hour. I think depends on information you have displayed. Mine:

time without seconds
day, date, month, week
sunrise, sunset, till sunset
moon phase, custom text
steps, hr, calories
message count, battery, bluetooth indicator, DND indicator
steps history graph

JJKing over 3 years ago in reply to tomulli

Thank you very much for this set up.

It is very addictive to configure it.

Is there more room for written text?

Battery measured in days like watch?

Can the am/pm and seconds be coded vertically ?

JJKing over 3 years ago in reply to JJKing

4283607 over 3 years ago

I have been adjusting my watch face and really digging it. But every so often. I’ll make an adjustment and it will just drop all of the adjustments I’ve made and I have to completely restart. And it takes an incredibly long time to fix it so I begrudgingly have to use different watch faces

tomulli over 3 years ago in reply to 4283607

I assume you are using Garmin CIQ in order to change the settings. There are so many problems reported for CIQ settings change all over the forum that i am surprised ppl still using it for something else than app installation. All problems are further multiplied for apps with more then hundred settings (e.g.this face), typical issues - corrupted settings files, missing settings, even settings from previous/old app versions delivered to the watch - were documented and reported to Garmin.

I highly encourage everyone to use Garmin mobile or Garmin express apps instead.

Björn Sjöstrand over 3 years ago

Hi, love this watch face!

I do however experience a lag time of approximately 1-2 seconds when navigating away from, and towards, the WF on my tactix Delta Solar. This is only mildly annoying and I do not want to use another WF.

Is there any action I can make to prevent this? Some of the features that can be turned off to eliminate the lag?

Best regards,

Bjorn

3439041 over 2 years ago

Hello I’m trying to change the temperature to Celsius and yes I’ve already changed the default unit of the watch to Celsius

4521574 over 2 years ago in reply to benklko

Hi Benklko,

I really like your layout, could you please send me the setup settings, thanks

tomulli over 2 years ago in reply to 3439041

There seems to be weird behavior of watches after recent G updates. Temperature units are not reported to the app correctly. Having similar problem on my watch suddenly. Working on fix.