Watchface: ActiFace [FR920XT, Vivoactive, epix]

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

Former Member over 9 years ago

Have you considered adding additional color options such as: Dark Blue, Dark Red, Dark Green, etc.? Would be nice to have darker options instead of the brighter versions of the above colors.

Keep up the good work, great watch face.

This would be good addition.

I'm hoping sunset/sunrise moves over to left side to right of active bar so that will centre the main time a bit more.

Can you also tweak max height of white line? It's running into the max steps and kcals numbers just above the graph.

Thanks Petr!

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hi, I own a 920XT and just installed the new version. The seconds and the sunrise is enabled in the options but neither of them is showed on the watch. The other settings like color works pretty well. Is it a characteristic of the 920XT that the seconds are not shown?

Furthermore: are the batches also gone on the 920XT? I am asking since there is still space for it above the daily step count. I found the batches really helpful for motivation...

Same problem with my Fenix3, I have latest ActiFace installed and firmware is 6.50.
Color will change nicely from Garmin Connect Mobile but sunrise/sunset and seconds not shown while enabled.

Petr.Koula over 9 years ago

Hi, I'm not experiencing this issue but you can try steps that helped in the similar case mentioned below..

Clear your CIQ apps and their settings. That means to delete everything in folder /GARMIN/APPS, including SETTINGS and DATA subdirectories.
Then you can try to install it again.

topcaser over 9 years ago

I dont know how where to find the folder /GARMIN/APPS. Is it visible after connecting the watch to my PC? If I delete the folder's content, what happens to other watchfaces or data fields?

Petr.Koula over 9 years ago

Yes, it is on drive which is mounted when you connect F3 to your computer.
Clearing APP directory will wipe out all CIQ stuff from the device and you will have to install it again. But it's not easy to remove one specific application with its settings, because names are randomly generated.

Have you tried to uninstall ActiFace, restart the watch and install it again?

justal123 over 9 years ago

I've been using the Actiface watch face on my Fenix 3 for months now and love it, but today it reverted the the basic digital display. I've gone back into settings and reset it to actiface but whenever I do all I get is the digital watch face. Other watch faces seem to be working OK and I have re-downloaded Actiface and reinstalled it.

I've never had any issues with it before and all was working fine under the new 6.50 firmware until this morning when Actiface stopped working.

Any ideas?

Al.

Petr.Koula over 9 years ago

Try to change and save configuration in Garmin Express.

topcaser over 9 years ago

Ok, got it working now by deinstalling and installing the Watchface again. Nevertheless, on my 920XT, the seconds vanish after some time and the following is shown: --:-- along with an icon. If I deactivate sunrise/sunset in the settings (and have only seconds activated) neither the seconds nor the --:-- is shown.

Is this normal behavior or a bug?

Petr.Koula over 9 years ago

Try to get GPS fix, I don't know when you got gps activated for the last time, but ActiFace needs load your last coordinates and if you didn't find satellites from last fw update for example, you maybe need to refresh it once. Seconds can be displayed only for a few seconds, because CIQ turns into Low energy mode after a while.

topcaser over 9 years ago

That's strange since I go running four times a week. Therefore the last GPS fix was on tuesday. Nevertheless, I will go running today, too. I will give a notice here whether sunrise/sunset will work then.

But let me ask another question: It sounds wise to put the watch in an energy mode after a while. So I am wondering what's the sense behind showing the seconds for a short period of time? Is there any use case I miss?