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The Tide Widget Petition

Tides are available on old Casio Protrek/pathfinder/g-shocks for decades, why not on the high tech Instinct ?

If you think a true Outdoors Smartwatch deserves a way to follow tides.
If you surf with your Instinct
If you fish with your Instinct
If you use the Boat activity and knows where the MOB is hidden

Answer that thread to show to Garmin: we would love a tide widget and we say "please" ! :-)

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tess over 3 years ago in reply to 9955037 +4

9955037 said:
I'm a lifeguard and a frequent catamaran sailor and that widget would be very useful on my instinct

For what you do, there's no question the tide widget would be very useful to you. The…
gaijin over 3 years ago in reply to quethrosar +4

quethrosar said:
not end of story, that's a bad excuse and business model. They add widgets to instinct now and then. there's no reason they couldn't add tide and e-sports to instinct except for making…
AquaTed over 3 years ago +3 verified

I (sort of) followed the suggestion by Trux. I spent a few minutes typing tide times into the calender on my phone to cover the two weeks we would be at the coast. It's not a perfect solution, but it…

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0 trux over 3 years ago in reply to quethrosar

quethrosar said:
Let us purchase it or something for instinct solar that doesn't have it. I want it.

I you want it, replace your Instinct Solar for Instinct Solar Surf, it has the tides. Where is the problem?

0 quethrosar over 3 years ago in reply to trux

should not have to replace hardware for software.....

0 trux over 3 years ago in reply to quethrosar

quethrosar said:
should not have to replace hardware for software....

There is no software for the ordinary Instinct with the Tides. The feature is only available in the firmware for Instinct Tide, and for Instinct Solar Surf. The firmware is not compatible with the ordinary Instinct, and no add-on widgets can be installed on Instinct, hence changing the hardware is the only option you have, if you really want the Tides.

0 quethrosar over 3 years ago in reply to trux

i know what you are saying, but there should be no reason they can't add it.

0 trux over 3 years ago in reply to quethrosar

quethrosar said:
i know what you are saying, but there should be no reason they can't add it.

Why it is so difficult to understand that they won't add Tides to the ordinary Instinct, when they sell a more expensive model with that feature? You cannot pay extra to get it (w/o changing the hardware), because there is no way to install pay-for add-ons. As I wrote, if you want the Tides, you chose the wrong device, and should change it for one offering the feature. Apparently you do not need the Tides enough, if replacing the watch is unacceptable.

0 quethrosar over 3 years ago in reply to trux

you obviously know nothing about software ....

tides is software, if device has room in memory, it can be added. if it does not have room in memory, then it cannot be. Garmin should answer this. not you.

0 9830826 over 3 years ago in reply to quethrosar

Seriously. Please Garmin show us the different hardware that won’t allow us to have this widget? You guys push updates all the time. I’m sure it could be done. Use the phone for connection on data through a web page idk. Something. I love this watch but don’t wanna buy a new one 6 months later for tides.

0 Brian over 3 years ago in reply to DJGShef

I really dont think it is that tricky. we dont need something that calculates. Just have a tide table synchronize from your phone to your watch. All I care about is the high/low tides for today and their height. That can just be sync'd as a table and displayed. no calculation needed on the watch.

0 gaijin over 3 years ago in reply to quethrosar

quethrosar said:
you obviously know nothing about software ....

tides is software, if device has room in memory, it can be added. if it does not have room in memory, then it cannot be. Garmin should answer this. not you.

Garmin - Chris (Hint: He's from Garmin) did answer this as follows:

Garmin - Chris said:
The Tide widget will only be in the Instinct Solar Surf edition of the watch. APPS cannot be added to an Instinct since they are not compatible with Connect IQ.

A Fenix 5 or Fenix 6 series watch can be bought instead and there are various tide widget APPS that can be added to the watch through their Connect IQ store compatibility.

In my mind, that settles this issue - if one wants the Tides function on their Instinct, buy a Surf edition watch; it's not going to be available on the other Instinct editions.

End of story.

HTH

0 tess over 3 years ago in reply to gaijin

The standard Instinct on Garmin's website sells for $299. The newer version with Tides sells for $449 and is currently on sale for $349. You have all these people who keep saying it could be added to the Instinct through an update therefore there's no reason why they shouldn't have it. To hell with those that spent more to get Tides. This is about me, me, me! Sad.