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Bug: incorrect sunrise info for 3rd party watch faces after 6 days without GPS fix

KrapfenKringel
over 3 years ago

I noticed several times that my 3rd party watch faces (plural it's not a bug with only a single watch face) are suddenly fed with wrong sunrise and sunset data, while Garmins stock widget is still showing the correct data. 

I can fix it immediately with getting a GPS fix, but after a few days not using GPS it's offset again (while the internal widget keeps it correctly). 

  • 0 over 3 years ago

    Also Garmin watchfaces show the correct data at the same time. 

  • +1 over 3 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel

    Please use the Contact Developer option within the Connect IQ APP or on the Connect IQ webpage to let the developer know. They will need to correct their programming.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

    So it happened again today. My main one "sundance" is off, real sunset is 17:58 (third party watchfaces) or 17:56 (stock watchfaces / stock sun widget).

    Funny thing is, the watchface Sc8 is still displaying 17:58 (probably just refreshing once per day while the others do it instantly) , Sundance is displaying 19:14 and the new one I tried out today (Sky 24 Watch Face) is first flashing another sunset time, but then switching to the wrong one seen before.

    Last GPS fix 6 days ago.

    Still pretty sure its a problem on Garmins side relying the data to third-party watchfaces. Atfer a new GPS fix all is correct again. Meanwhile the old Fenix 6 I kept running parallel still shows correct values, on the same watchface.

    So what are the developers doing wrong that their sunset data gets messed up after a few days, that specifically only happens on the F7 series? I need to know what they are doing wrong before I contact ALL of them. ;)

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Garmin - Chris

    How often are the Garmin watchfaces and widgets pulling the sunset time? Would they have also shown the wrong data on the next day? Is the widget getting that data freshly when added? Guess that's my next test in 6 days.

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to KrapfenKringel
    KrapfenKringel said:
    So what are the developers doing wrong that their sunset data gets messed up after a few days, that specifically only happens on the F7 series? I need to know what they are doing wrong before I contact ALL of them. ;)

    Begin by asking just one of them!

  • 0 over 3 years ago in reply to Dr Phil

    Still need to know what's different on the 7 compared to all the other models from Garmin first..but I've written that already..