Watchface: Segment

Very nice watch face. Wouldnt it be better that blutooth icon dissapear when no BT connection? it would be better to spot than change of colour. And ability to use only white-black with no colors. It would be very clear to read in low light conditions without using backlight.
Love that you can do invert screen.
Also, icon for sleep mode would be cool :)

Mike,

Thank you for the comments.

A monochrome option is something I was considering and having the bluetooth icon disappear makes far more sense in this mode, so I have implemented both suggestions.

I have also added a sleep mode indicator, but it only works if you have "Display activity information" enabled.

Regards,
Dan

Thanks! Already installed and it is awesome!

Configurable?

Very nice watch face, but I cannot figure out how to configure to monochrome, invert text/ background, date...
The watch is running on v3.30 firmware

Hi,

There are two ways of configuring the watchface: either using the Connect Mobile app or with Garmin Express.

The process is described in detail here, it refers to a different app but the process of configuring it is the same.

Configurable?

Thanks a lot. Learning something new every day:p

I am still using that watchface!

I have little request :) If its possible, add sunset/sunrise information like in this watchface https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?338366-Watchface-Superb

Maybe in the middle up or down of watchface? It is last think i lack on it. Right now i use widget on phone :)

Sorry for the delay in replying, didn't really use my computer much over Christmas.

I have read a little about how others are doing it, so will look into it further when I get the chance. My main concern is the effect on battery life, my primary goal with this watchface was to make it as efficient as I could, but I could make it optional through the settings.

I would probably place the information in the centre above the time, but am unsure of which is best:

• Display both sunrise and sunset (with a sun and moon icon respectively).
  
• Just display the next event (sunrise or sunset, with an appropriate icon).
  

Displaying both will probably clutter the minimalist layout somewhat but just displaying the next event may not be as useful. What do you think?

Thanks for looking in to this! :)

I think next event will be enough. It can look like on oryginal digital garmin watchface.
Maybe possibility to toggle on/off from settings for users that dont want it?

I installed other watchfaces (like Mercury), but after all always going back to yours :) (i dont think that there is any other so clean wf with dd/mm/yyyy date format )

Spent most of yesterday on this, part of which was implementing the maths efficiently (it runs the calculations in around 45ms on the vivoactive). The rest of the time was spent experimenting with different layouts to find the best way to display the information without cluttering up the interface.

I compromised by moving the activity information to a single corner and providing the option to display either the daily step goal percentage or distance. Hopefully this is a reasonable choice?

The sunrise/sunset times are calculated at the beginning of each day and also whenever the application is started (they are not cached). Since the watches have limited memory, a watchface is stopped whenever widgets or apps are run, this means that the sunrise/sunset times are calculated each time you switch back to the watchface and I'm not sure if this is ideal since it may impact battery life, but I will keep an eye on it.

Additionally I switched the battery icon to a solid one, which I think looks better. It stays the same until the battery level drops to 10% at which point it switches to a hollow icon with an exclamation mark.