Watchface: Cube Watch

Cube Watch

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/3da396f4-3ca5-4d63-a42c-71cdb3ea6e7a

CubeWatch is a simple and basic watch face, with information about your Activity Monitoring, Battery Level, and Date, and Phone Connection, distributed in quadrants and color coded.

NOW CONFIGURABLE!!!
You can select which information you want in LOW POWER MODE or when you look to the watch (At Glance).
You can also select the color you want to match your mood or watch!

Colors Schemes available:
- Blue / Grey / Red / Pink / (Others suggestions accepted!)...
- Black or White background

Information to Show (Always, only when Looking to Watch or Never):
-Battery Status, Step Count and Date
-Battery Percentage OR Battery Icon

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+ Version 3.0.0 - Configurable Edition
+ Version 2.1.4 - New SDK Compilation.
+ Version 2.1.3 - Removed drop shadows, adjusted to work in the old firmwares and 12am showing at noon.
+ Version 2.1 - Data will also display in low power mode
+ Version 2.0 - Added Seconds when not in low power mode (Beta Firmware Required) // Displays only the numbers, move bar and sleep indicator when in low power mode // Bluetooth Status (when phone is connected)
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- Seconds after gesture wake up / Simple data when in low power

- Activity Monitor -
+ Actual Steps and Goal shown up to your target;
+ Steps and Goal will become Red when you are inactive;
+ Steps will become Yellow when you reach 80% of your target;
+ Steps will become Green when you are above your target;
+ Tiny Move Bar below Watch;
+ "Sleeping" will be shown on screen when activated;

- Battery Level
++ Battery level will become Red when below 25%;
or
++ Battery Icon

Future versions:
- Alarm Indicator, Turn off Activity Status.

Comments:
- Please comments, bugs or feature requests below
- Please rate! It will help me to further develop!

Comments, Bugs, Feature Requests are welcome

-- Change Log --
+ Version 2.0 - Added Seconds when not in low power mode (Beta Firmware Required) // Displays only the numbers, move bar and sleep indicator when in low power mode // Bluetooth Status (when phone is connected)
+ Version 1.1.0 - Added tweeks on the numbers font & step counter will become red if inactive (even if you are almost at / reached your goal)

Updated -------------------------
Included description for Version 1.1.0
Included description for Version 2.0, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2 & 2.1.3 & 2.1.4 & 3.0.0

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

Suggestions!?

If you want to hide the icons in low-power mode, and others want them, make it a configuration parameter. It won't be something users can control right now, but it will work when the ability to set properties is available.

EDUARDOBUST over 10 years ago

I will appreciate if somebody using old firmware test the new version 2.1.1, with the adjustments to work on the non-beta firmware.
Just uploaded on store.

Best regards,

SergeyVDNKH over 10 years ago

I don't know, if somebody already mentioned it, my comments:
- Date, steps and percent are too small and look blurry. Maybe make them bigger and sharp.
- Right part of text quickly disappears now. Please leave charge-percent.
- Seconds are always freeze and are not counting, then disappear.
- I don't use steps-counting, though it would be useful to not show 0/7500 all the time. Maybe not show it while it is zero, or you have access to a special flag.

Great watchface! Thank you for you time and effort!

EDUARDOBUST over 10 years ago

I don't know, if somebody already mentioned it, my comments:
- Date, steps and percent are too small and look blurry. Maybe make them bigger and sharp.
- Right part of text quickly disappears now. Please leave charge-percent.
- Seconds are always freeze and are not counting, then disappear.
- I don't use steps-counting, though it would be useful to not show 0/7500 all the time. Maybe not show it while it is zero, or you have access to a special flag.

Great watchface! Thank you for you time and effort!

Sergey,
Many thanks for the comments. I will point your bullest.

- Date, steps and percent are too small and look blurry. Maybe make them bigger and sharp.

I'll check the blurry part of it, maybe due to the shadow, but unfortunatly, i don't think i would be able to change the font size due to screen restrictions

- Right part of text quickly disappears now. Please leave charge-percent.
- Seconds are always freeze and are not counting, then disappear.

Are you usign the latest firmware? It is related to the Low power mode to save battery. I can tell you that on 920xt the "movement" of glance, check seconds, steps and battery is working properly. But if still not working as it should, i wonder if you could provide further details of your hardware so i can figure out what is happening.

- I don't use steps-counting, though it would be useful to not show 0/7500 all the time. Maybe not show it while it is zero, or you have access to a special flag.

I will definitely look at it. While we are not able to use the configuration menus on the system, I'm not sure that i will be able to remove it, but again, i will look at it.

I've implemented the code already and filed a request to "Hide Activity Status", while "Change Color Set" to Red, Gray, Blue, Pink theme, Black or White Background, etc. etc... are in the code. I will make sure that you will be able to customize what kind of info you would like to display while on Low Power mode or outside it as soon as the SDK/Firmware is updated.

Appreciate your comments and your understanding as above.
Best Regards

Former Member over 10 years ago

I will appreciate if somebody using old firmware test the new version 2.1.1, with the adjustments to work on the non-beta firmware.

I am using 2.7 with the latest Cube release 2.1.2 and it works great. I am really happy with it (tried some other faces but they are buggy). I am happy without the seconds, and still dont understand the info the lower bar is providing, but I like the readability and the amount of information i am getting is right what I want to have: steps in count (with it was configurable: (steps)/(steps_total) Vs. (steps)/(steps_%) but that's not a deal breaker), battery in %, date ant time.

EDUARDOBUST over 10 years ago

I am using 2.7 with the latest Cube release 2.1.2 and it works great. I am really happy with it (tried some other faces but they are buggy). I am happy without the seconds, and still dont understand the info the lower bar is providing, but I like the readability and the amount of information i am getting is right what I want to have: steps in count (with it was configurable: (steps)/(steps_total) Vs. (steps)/(steps_%) but that's not a deal breaker), battery in %, date ant time.

Hello jcliment!

The lower bar is the Activity bar, provided by Garmin Activity Monitor. When you are inactive for the first hour (60min) it fills half of the bottom, adding an additional 15min, a quarter, up to 2 hours of inactivity, when the bar will be full.

With regards to the configurations, i'm selecting several config schemes, were you will be able to display % baterry, baterry icon, steps in %, hide or display informations, etc. but this will only be available when the next SDK/Firmware is available.

Regards
EB

EDUARDOBUST over 10 years ago

Listening to the requests, i've tested and uploaded the version without the drop shadow and looks so much better!

Enjoy 2.1.3! Is now live!

dugeem.david over 10 years ago

Great watch face.

One issue on my VA is that the fonts for steps and day/date are too small for easy viewing. Could the font size be increased?

Thanks

EDUARDOBUST over 10 years ago

Hello Duggeem,

I understand your point, but as ConnectIQ has predetermined fonts/sizes, unfortunatly increasing it makes the upper right block bigger, on top of the seconds/minutes display.
I'll play with some custom fonts, trying to use as much pixels as the display would fit OK?
Thanks for the feedback! Best regards!

Former Member over 10 years ago

LOVE LOVE LOVE your watch face, but I do have one question. I like that the steps etc don't display all the time, but I cant figure out how to get them to come up other than switching to the widget to left or right then going back to the clock face. That kind of defeats the purpose since the widget to the left is my activity tracking.

How do I display the extra content without having to switch pages?