Adjust the orientation on my watch with buttons

Laurent_FR_IDF 10 months ago

Hello,

How to change the orientation, and change button right to left ? I'm left hand, and my watch is on my right wrist.

Thanks !

Laurent, from France

0 JackDrake 10 months ago

Actual this is not possible. Afaik only some pixel and galaxy watches support this (pretty nice...) feature.

0 Garmin-Tracy 10 months ago

If I am understanding your questions correctly, the article How Do I Change the Wrist Worn Setting for My Garmin Watch? will give you steps to do this.

0 Scott 10 months ago in reply to Garmin-Tracy

I think they're talking about flipping the watch around so the buttons are always facing the hand.

0 8674655 10 months ago

It's not possible because you would need te re-calibrate the sensors (especially the accelerometers).

0 7719323 7 days ago in reply to 8674655

Sorry, but as a mechanical Engineer, I don’t understand this answer. And other brands of smartwatch are able to make this.

0 8674655 6 days ago in reply to 7719323

When the watch is worn with the buttons on the right, the top of the watch is directed away from you or down towards the ground.

When it's worn with the buttons on the left, the top of the watch is directed towards you or towards the sky.

So not only do the sensors/firmware need to be configured for that, but also the algorithms need to be trained for it.

Which is not to say it's not doable, but Garmin just hasn't worked on it, so it's currently not possible to configure the watch this way.

0 looigi 5 days ago in reply to 8674655

8674655 said:
So not only do the sensors/firmware need to be configured for that, but also the algorithms need to be trained for it.

In my experience, it's not that complicated, Inertial sensors are bidirectional in all their axis so when rotating the watch 180 degrees on the wrist, it only requires changing the sign on a few those axis. Calibrations, and software remain otherwise the same. There's certainly going to be a lot of differences between individual users, so the inertial part has to have pretty broad tolerances anyway. Even if it is as difficult/complicates as you suggest, it's still a very weak excuse for not doing it IMO.