Possible to have Body Battery on a watch face.

net1994 over 3 years ago

Can't add that onto a watch face from any custom or Garmin official watch faces. I talked to support and asked them if it was possible on the standard, default Epix 2 Face and they said no. Anyone else know of a workaround? But if their support said no, I'm assuming it's not possible at all. Unless or until Garmin updates something to make it a new item to add.

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BobMiles over 3 years ago +1 verified

You need to install the latest beta, then it is possible even with ciq watch faces. I have it displayed here right now:
net1994 over 3 years ago in reply to BobMiles +1

Dude, you need a nap. STAT!!
7494571 over 3 years ago +1 suggested

Sounds like the Garmin person dismissed you without really researching the question. I don't have any Beta stuff installed, and I've been using a built-in watchface as shown below. Scroll through…

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+1 BobMiles over 3 years ago

You need to install the latest beta, then it is possible even with ciq watch faces. I have it displayed here right now:

0 Mladen T over 3 years ago

If you're on one of the latest beta version then 8.13 was released just few days ago and, I guess, the developers have to update their watchfaces to make the new data fields available.

And for Garmin should be the same? The "new" watchfaces that they added can have body battery but not the old ones.

0 Nicolai.kalviknes over 3 years ago

The current beta software adds body battery to many, if not close to all standard watchfaces. It also open up CIQ watchfaces to use the Body battery metric.

If you don't want to use the Beta, then just give it a few days/weeks, and you get the update automatically.

So far the SW 8.14 looks to be stable, and I have no issues so far.

0 micro over 3 years ago in reply to Nicolai.kalviknes

Where can you set this on a watch face? I found you can only set body battery metric as a graph.

0 Nicolai.kalviknes over 3 years ago in reply to micro

Well yeah, only as a graph. Sorry.

I want it as a graph, so didn't really check if I could have it as a "xx%" data only. I believe CIQ watchfaces have this ability however, at least I've seen someone with that. I don't know more then that, just remember seeing it.

0 7017726 over 3 years ago in reply to Nicolai.kalviknes

I'm not running the new beta version but do have BB on at least one Garmin watch face. With the beta, it doesn't appear to be operational yet on CIQ watch faces. I have, for a few days, two Epix watches, my original with beta and a replacement without. On Monday I send the old one in to Garmin.

0 Nicolai.kalviknes over 3 years ago in reply to 7017726

Thank you for the information. I hadn't tested any CIQ watchfaces yet, as I like the standard watchfaces with the touch input.

0 net1994 over 3 years ago in reply to BobMiles

Dude, you need a nap. STAT!!

0 7494571 over 3 years ago

Sounds like the Garmin person dismissed you without really researching the question. I don't have any Beta stuff installed, and I've been using a built-in watchface as shown below. Scroll through the choices for the one I've shown in the pic (I think the left data field defaults to VO2). I still haven't found a watchface with stress, which seems like something they'd obviously design for, but perhaps it takes too much compute power to obtain every time the person flips their wrist to look. It doesn't seem like this face's data fields can be an exhaustive set of possible data values, but it is what it is.