Watchface: Germon 3

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Watchface with gauges.

Link to ConnectIQ store.





Please post any questions, bug reports or feature requests in this thread.

Known bugs
  • Heartratezones not shown on fenix 5x. Bug is registered with Garmin
  • Seconds hand not properly showing. Bug is reported to Garmin
Features planned in coming releases
  • Show seconds all the time
    This will require a major rewrite of the code to improve memory usage and computing time

Q & A

What is the meaning of the different gauge colors?

There are different types of gauges:
  • Progress gauge (used for steps, floors, calories, intensity minutes, distance)
    The progress gauge works with a moving target. It will calculate e.g. how many steps you should have at this point of time if you want to reach your goal. As long as you are below that moving tartet, the pointer will be in the red area. As soon as you are above that target, the pointer will be in the green area. If you already have achieved your goal, the pointer will also be in the green area and the dark green area will show, how far you are already above your goal.
    The progress gauge also takes your configured sleeping times into account. So the Watchface e.g. does not expect you to have already taken a quarter of your daily goal steps if it is still 6 o'clock in the morning and you just woke up.
    May sound a bit complicated, but just have a watch over the day and you will get how it works.
  • Heart rate gauge
    Shows your different heart rate zones as configured in your profile. The gray area is even below your first heart rate zone.
  • Static gauge (used for elevation)
    Just shows a gray gauge, as there is no target and no proper scale - proposals on how to improve on this welcome!
  • Temperature gauge
    Shows different colors in 10?C steps, everthing left of green is sub-zero.
    Keep it mind that you have your watch on your wrist - so the measured temperature will mostly vary from real environment temperature.
  • Weight gauge
    The colors indicate deviation from your configured target weight. +/- 4% is green, +/- 12% is yellow and +/-20% is red.
    Using it really only makes sense if you have some other service synching your weight to your Garmin account, like e.g. Withings/Nokia.
I do not get any sunset/sunrise times. It only show "0:00". Why is that?

That one is easy to fix. Just go outside and start any activity that does GPS tracking, wait for a lock on GPS. Then you can stop the activity. You do not even need to save it. Your sunrise/sunset times should be fine now. The story behind it: the watchface is not allowed to acquire GPS position itself. So instead it asks the device for the last known position and uses that one. If the device does not return any position you will see the "0:00". Remember to start a GPS activity when travelling to get the local sunrise/sunset times! community.garmin.com/.../1258618.png
  • Biggest grey bar at bottom left is the first hour. That turns red after and hour of minimal movement. Each of the other 4 grey bars (smaller) are the 15 minute increments of the second hour. They turn red in succession in 15 minute increments.


    Thanks for explanation. That means I have to walk for min 1 hour that the big grey bar switch to red?
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 7 years ago
    Thanks for explanation. That means I have to walk for min 1 hour that the big grey bar switch to red?


    No, it means you have to sit still for an hour for it to turn red. Then walk for a bit to change it back to grey.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 7 years ago
    I just downloaded this face for my Vivoactive 3. It is a nice looking effort. I am displaying temp and it defaults to Celsius (it would be nice to have a Fahrenheit option).
  • Hello,
    I like your watchface a lot but on my Vivoactive 3 I can'n configure anything. Is that OK? What can I do or what must I do?
  • Hello guys,
    I am a new user and i have Garmin Vivoactive 3. I have the Q & A section regarding the sunset/sunrise issue, but still my watch displays 00.00. Any advice ? thank you in advance
    Take care,
    Kostis
  • Hello there.
    Been using your watchface for a day with latest update (V1.6.6)
    The Floors circle doesn't upadte his red ring while accumulating steps.
    Even having completed the goal, the red circle doesn't update too.
    Floor circle was placed in the right circle of watchface.
    Fenix 5 Plus with latest firmawre (4.20) here.
    Thanks for your work, hope it helps.
    Best regards
  • Any chance of making it compatible with Forerunner 645?
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 6 years ago
    I really like this face, i've been using it for a number of months now. One problem I have is that sunrise and sunset times seem to be stuck on the values for about the 6th of september. It was updating when I used a GPS function prior to that but is now stuck. The only change since then was the addition of an hour when we went to daylight savings time.

    Anything I can do to get that working again?

    thanks