Watchface: Glance

Loving this watch face! Might update to the paid version very soon. But could you please clarify what "Open Weather Map support" means? With the free version, will the weather change / update throughout the day as the day gets warmer / colder? Will the weather update location whenever I sync my Garmin with my phone? Appreciate some insight here. Thanks - loving the watch face!

I just commented asking about weather. Could you clarify what an Open Weather provider is / means? Thanks!

Open Weather Map is just another weather source. For some locations it works a lot better than standard Garmin Weather. Also, older watches don't support Garmin Weather, so Open Weather is the only option for them. Refresh rate is not guaranteed for any provider - different locations might have different rate that is controlled by provider. For Open Weather there is also an app refresh rate that you can choose in settings

Thank you for creating such a great watch face.  I have an Epix 2 with the updated firmware.  My always-on view is this:

which after the timeout dims to this:

And shortly thereafter changes to this:

It is clear from this thread in the Epix 2 forum that there is some confusion about Garmin's interpretation of Always On.  In an ideal world, I would have the first picture under all conditions (understanding that battery life very well might be less than 48 hours) but why I am posting in your forum is I am not understanding why it goes to the third picture.  That strikes me as a kind of "sleep mode." 

If I keep Wrist Gesture On then if I move my wrist the watch face will go from the bottom picture to the top picture.  If I turn Wrist Gesture Off then I have to touch the watch to go from the bottom picture to the top picture.  

In summary,

1.  If there is any way to force the watch face to always be #1 (understanding it would have a dramatic impact on battery life) that would be awesome.

2. If it has to dim, is there a way to only make it go to the second picture and not the third picture?

Thank you for creating this watch face.  It is great.

Sean

Epix 2 has AMOLED screen, so it does use AOD (unlike MIP displays, that can stay on always, just without a backlight).

Your firsrt picture is awake state, 3rd picture is AOD. The one in between is just a transition I think - it is not persistent.

The watch face app can write anything on the screen in AOD mode, but there are restrictions - it must use less than 10% of pixels and not have same pixel on for more than 3 minutes (to avoid burn-in). If the app violates any of these conditions, the system turns off the display, so no AOD at all.

Using all data on the screen in AOD might bring it over 10%, that is why I limit it to what you see on the 3rd screen. And that is also why I love MIP displays - longer battery life and no AOD nonsense.

Thank you for the clear explanation.  This helps me understand better.  My confusion stemmed from not understanding whether it was the second or third picture that was the AOD screen.  I should probably move the explanation that follows to the Epix 2 forum, but as a quick example if I use the Epix 2 for an indoor bike ride the Awake State is:

And after the Timeout duration it will change to:

So in an Activity, the second watch face is not transient but the "dimmed" state.  I have an Apple Watch 7 and all throughout the day (regardless of whether it is exercise or not) the watch face alternates between Awake and Awake-dimmed state.  it never goes into what I now understand is the AOD state (i.e., third picture in post two above).  In effect, I thought the AOD state was the Awake-dimmed state (i..e, the second picture and not the third in my post two above) because that is what I am familiar with on the Apple Watch.  

I understand these are different devices so they should not be expected to behave identically, but until I read your explanation what exactly is the AOD watch face has never been clear to me in any of the material I have read.  Thank you for this clarification.

Sean 

i would love if you can implement "nightscout" data.. that would be so awesome

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i would love if you can implement "nightscout" data.. that would be so awesome

I don't have the nightscout device, so no way for me do it.

A simplified moon phase algorithm used in most Garmin IQ apps doesn't use time - only date. It returns just a value from 0 to 29 - not even specific % of moon visibility. But if you look at a real moon calendar, you will see that percentage of visible moon differs between days with the same phase. Also, percentage change is non-linear, so I had to calculate and use some  average values for a given phase.

Anyways, don't expect 100% moon phase precision from most apps in IQ store.