5s plus no weather watch face data option?

I got a 5s plus as a gift. I loved my Vivoactive 3 and this really is more than I need vs that watch but im not going to say no to it. One big disappointment that i have ran into is that i cant find the weather watch face data point for the default digital clock face on the 5s plus? On my vivoactive i am able to have the temperature as a data point on the default clock face. On the 5S Plus there are a lot of data points but weather temperature is NOT one of them.

I dont want to use a third party watch face and have to get an api key as those are unreliable vs stock api.
Am i missing something or is the very expensive 5s plus not support this?

0 OEAGLEO over 6 years ago

I use both LINE, and STYLE 5, by Stanislav.Bures. Yes, they require a free API, but are very reliable, and accurate, or at least they coincide with the weather stations here in Salt Lake City. Both are free, and I get a little over a week on Style 5 on my fenix 5+. Line is comparable. On my Style 5, I have Temperature, and humidity on the watchface.

0 blakehaas over 6 years ago

That's good to hear that some are reliable, but I just don't understand how they have the data field on the vivoactive 3 but not on the Fenix 5s plus. There is a 3x price difference. Seems really odd.

0 DerDembo over 6 years ago

I guess they introduced the feature on the V3 as a novelty and where hoping that developer so picked things up - which they did. As a platform developer they are now leaving things to the much larger development community, which is fine I guess. Most of the third party watch faces are quite excellent.

0 Skynet5 over 6 years ago

What would be nice is if they granted some of the watchfaces some kudos by the garmin team reimplementing them so they could run on the smaller chip and therefore be more efficient.

I prefer the battery life.

0 jim_m_58 over 6 years ago

The fr920 was the last watch I heard of that had a "lower power chip" for native watch faces, and that's why a native WF could display seconds on it.

Watches do run in a lower power mode for watch faces - both native and CIQ.
There is a certain amount of overhead for CIQ, but it's minimal these days. - the default is that the WF only updates once a minute but there is a means where small sections of the screen can update every second (and show seconds) with watches starting with the fenix 5. For weather in CIQ watches, a background process is used to get the data, which can run at most every 5 minutes, but in mine, I have a setting so that can be as long as once an hour.

With CIQ watch face, there can be a difference based on complexity of the watch face, where a simple one usually has a smaller battery hit that one with a whole bunch of data displayed, and there the impact is calculating all the data along with the display.