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sun exposure notifications with fēnix 6 pro solar

pgee70
over 4 years ago

this is a suggestion for enhancing the software of the watch.

I have fair skin and burn quite easily.

i was wondering if you could use the light-sensor in the fēnix 6 solar panel watch to work out when my sun exposure reached a definable threshold and then notify me.

for example if you had a user skin-type parameter, with a scale from burns easily to never burns, then after say 20 minutes of really strong sun, i need to get into the shade....

this sort of 'nudge' might be enough to think about sun exposure and prevent is consequences.

what do you think?

  • 0 over 4 years ago

    As a fellow fair skin "burn in 10 minutes in summer" Garmin user, I'm interested.

    However, I am seeing a significant problem in that as a wearable, which way the watch face is pointing matters. If you are running eastbound (with the watch on your left wrist), then the watch will be reporting little solar intensity, while your skin is copping a beating. (Southern hemisphere westies will also be burned to a crisp). Even just running style and how you hold your arms (watch face vertical or horizontal) is going to make a difference to the REPORTED solar exposure.

    Now I guess it might be technically possible using data from the compass and accelerometers to adjust for some of these factors, but that starts to become a pretty complicated datafield, and one that still is subject to some pretty random variance. Given the potential negative health consequences of getting it wrong, Garmin's lawyers might shy away from this.

    I think I might stick to my rule of "if it's much beyond the summer side of the equinox, better apply sunscreen (dawn patrols excepted)". 

  • 0 over 4 years ago
    pgee70 said:
    this is a suggestion for enhancing the software of the watch.

    since this is a user - user forum, Garmin will ignore any suggestions here. There is an extra website for this: 

    www.garmin.com/.../