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Connect IQ App Showcase Watchface: ActiFace [FR920XT, Vivoactive, epix]

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Watchface: ActiFace [FR920XT, Vivoactive, epix]

Petr.Koula over 10 years ago

Watchface link: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/7ef071c3-4a14-4eb3-aca9-e3a531262711

You can donate the ActiFace development via PayPal here: http://bit.ly/1RoLv4i

!!! IMPORTANT - PLEASE, RESTART YOUR WATCHES AFTER WATCHFACE UPDATE IF YOU HAVE SOME CONFIGURATION ISSUES !!!

Watch Face contains:
- Time and date
- activity history graph (past 7 days + today) in kCal and km/mi (or steps)
- maximum or sum or average kCals and km/mi (or steps)
- daily goal progress and step count
- custom fields
- status and notification icons
- inactivity indicator. Removing of inactivity levels is handled by the watch firmware, usually it takes about 3-4 minutes of walking.
- "goal reached" indicator in the week graph (small white triangle)

Supports 12/24 time format and km/mi.

Configuration
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ActiFace can be configured via Garmin Connect Mobile or Garmin Express.
Here is how to do it: https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?332843-How-to-App-Settings

Possible settings:
- Color
- Date format (and second date format in case when the notification icon is shown on Fenix-like models)
- Inverted mode (white background)
- Graph description - values above the graph - week maximums, sums or averages
- White line - switch between daily steps and distance for the white line graph
- Color graph style - switch between curve graph and bar graph
- Custom fields types (differs between models):
* UTC (with TZ offset)
* UTC24 (with TZ offset, always 24H format)
* steps
* distance
* calories
* goal percentage
* heart rate
* altitude
* week goal percentage (counted all step goals and steps from the beginning of the week)
* week distance average (counted from the beginning of the week without today)
* week steps average (counted from the beginning of the week without today)
* week calories average (counted from the beginning of the week without today)
* sunrise/sunset times
* climbed floors
* climbed meters/feet
* descended meters/feet
* week intensity minutes percentage
- Enable/disable seconds
- Enable/disable inactivity indicator
- Battery indicator type (Fenix3 only)
- Color graph line

Petr.Koula over 10 years ago

Hi, thanks for your reply. Can you please provide me some photo?

Petr.Koula over 10 years ago

Released version 1.4.1 fixing 'kC' units positioning when default distance units are miles
+ beta version of the Fenix 3 support

Former Member over 10 years ago

First off: thank you for making this amazing watch face.

A couple ideas/suggestions:

- I'd also echo the call for some sort of inactivity indication (I'm using a Fenix 3, so that may be a challenge with limited screen size)
- For the Fenix 3, I'd almost rather have the "max distance and max calories" (these personally aren't really important for me to look at multiple times a day) replaced with the daily ones, then the time be large(r) and centered. With the bottom graph taking up the entire bottom and being "centered" (unlike in the 920xt), it seems like it would stylistically "flow" better. Obviously, that's just one guy's opinion though!

This is exactly the watchface I've been looking for!

Former Member over 10 years ago

Also of note: just after utilizing the Fenix 3 watchface beta (within minutes) my watch froze. (on the latest firmware, 3.1)

Petr.Koula over 10 years ago

Thanks mjulianb_ for your suggestions.. I'll try some combinations with a graphic elements on F3's screen. But as you said, it's a challenge on a rounded screen with this type of watchface :)
Maximums above the grid are important to know the graph scale. Otherwise you are not able to easily read your results for previous days and it's blind graph - especially in the beginnig of a day.

Ad to freeze: is it repeating, or it was single case? Watchface crashes result in reboot and setting of default watchface. Freeze is not a typical result of Connect IQ stack exception, so there can be some anomaly in the firmware. Please, let me know when it occures again.

Former Member over 10 years ago

The freeze was only the first time I installed the watchface (my watch hasn't had a freeze since the notification issue a few weeks ago with older firmwares). Since soft resetting the watch, it appears to be working normally.

As for needing the maximums in order to truly know the scale, I absolutely agree for charts/graphs, in general. It's a huge pet peeve when some creates a chart/graph and doesn't label axes. However, I would posit that in this situation, you really aren't using the watch to get absolute numbers from the previous 7 days, more of a relative "how active have I been the past 7 days" glance at my watch, kind of use. The display is small to begin with and would likely take more time deciphering the past few days absolute values then it would to just open up the app on your phone. Again though, that's my opinion and use case, which may not be the same as everyone else's. I also have only used the watchface for approximately 2 hours, so I guess I will follow up in a few days with more feedback.

Thanks again for your work and quick response!

Petr.Koula over 10 years ago

Just released version 1.5.2 which contains inactivity indicators and very small UI corrections.

Former Member over 10 years ago

I have installed this on the F3 but the graphs but distance/calories don't seem to work. My activity tracker is on, is there something else I need to do? I have the latest firmware and the most recent update on the watchface.

Petr.Koula over 10 years ago

Thank you for your feedback. Can you check your activity history on F3? It should be somewhere in the menu. Is there listed correct values for today and previous days? Would be nice if you can post a photo of the watchface, it can help.

Former Member over 10 years ago

Hi, I have the same problem with 920XT. the only part of the graph that change is the calories and kilometers of the day (today). The rest of the graph is always the same, it doesn't cahnge.