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Wrong observationLocationName (and maybe conditions?) since late November's firmware updates

Hi all,

I have some custom watch faces on ConnectIQ that have the observationLocationName being displayed by default, meaning that any change on the location name is easily noticeable. I use those watch faces myself for more than 2 years and they always showed me the correct location name (Dublin, Ireland). However, I noticed that just after early December's firmware update (11.16 on my Venu 2s, if I'm not wrong), the location name automatically changed to a location that is around 20km from me (Dublin Airport).

That would be not too bad by itself, if it weren't for the 2 below reasons:

  1. The name change happens instantly after the firmware update;
  2. Ever since late November (24th, to be precise), I started receiving several (really, a lot of those) feedbacks from my watch faces' users telling me about the same thing, from all watch series (fenix, forerunner, epix gen 2, MARQ, etc.). That first feedback was from a user of an Epix 2 after the update to firmware 10.43. Those feedbacks are also spread all over the world (so not just in Ireland), across many different countries and they mention that the new location names are between 20 to 60km away from the previous one (depending on the person);

The name has been wrong since then, for about 4 months now. I've been to another country in the meantime and it was also showing "airport" instead of the city name, but since it was my first time there I can't confirm if there was a city name previously. But when I'm at home, can confirm that is still show airport that is 20km to the northwest of my actual location and the current weather condition that I see on my watch face is also the same one being shown on Garmin's default weather widget, which leads me to think that weather information might also be from the wrong location.

Just to make one more thing clear here, the issue is not only with my watch faces. I have installed other custom connectIQ faces that can also show the location name and they show exactly the same location name as mine. So to me it is either a change in the SDK that Garmin did not communicate, or it is indeed a bug. Could someone please clarify?

Thanks!

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