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ANT sensors on watchface

Former Member
Former Member over 2 years ago

Is this a software obstacle or just a choice of Garmin's to now allow ANT sensors to be displays on the watch-face? Random use case but I wanted to tape a tempe with some insulation to a pipe I have in the basement that hugs an exterior wall. In the winter I keep an eye on it and if need be put a heat lamp next to it. Would be nice to just have it on my watchface. 

Many other reasons one would want it on the watchface, but there ya go.

I am curious as I have a Tactix Pro Ballistics and under the AB software you can set a tempe to update every 5 minutes automatically if you set that option on. I don't have a tempe yet so can't mess around with it but it got me thinking that if the autoupdate for the temperature is ON in AB if that would allow me to pick it an an option for my watchface complications.

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    I am going to go out on a limp here and say this is a batter issue more than anything. You will find the watch does NOT look for sensors unless there is an activity about to get started and, even then, it will stop after a while after the activity is running.

    Can you imagine the batter drain if the watch was ALWAYS allowed to connect to an ant+ sensor without an activity in process?

    For your use case I think you are trying to push the fenix into doing something that it is no intended to do in any way or fashion.

    Why not do what I do? I bought a heating trip with a temp sensor. When temp drops low enough the heating strip turns out to keep the pipe from freezing

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Why noy just add the Temperature Widget and check it occasionally?

    Whenever the Widget is opened, it will display the Tempe temperature - not the internal watch temperature.  Looks like this:

    MAX and MIN are for the last 24 hours.  These are stored in the Tempe, not the watch.

    If the Tempe is not connected, the Widget will display "Not Connected" until it does connect - sometimes takes a minute or so to connect, but not always.

    Sure, it's not as convenient as having the info on your watchface, but if you put the Temperature Widget at either the top or bottom of your Glance list, then it's only one button press away.  And there is no wasted battery as the Tempe is not actively searched for by the watch until the Widget is opened, and it stops searching when the Widget is closed.

    HTH