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New functionality proposal - chime

Gizmo
over 5 years ago
A request to consider the introduction of a new functionality.
Full hour vibration, such a chime. In almost every old analogue-digital watch, such functionalities were made by issuing sound. The vibration is better because it is more discreet.
Probably many have already tried to write their own program (me too) that would do it but it turns out to be impossible because the task in the background can not cause vibration (why not?!!)
However, in the firmware itself there are many applications that can cause vibration, so from a higher level of code it can be done.
Of course, the vibration at the full hour must be at certain selected hours, I do not want the watch to wake me up every hour at night ;-)
Dear Garmin, will it ever be possible?


  • 0 over 5 years ago

    The vivoactive/venu devices only support vibrations, not tones, so no chimes.

    Something like a CIQ watch faces doesn't support playing vibrations, so this would be something that needs to be done in the FW.  Some of the higher end devices do support an hourly alert, but that's a bit different than just making a sound/vibration.

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    If we speak of vivoactive, I know that there can only be vibrations. Anyway, if you can do it only by the manufacturer in the firmware.

    What do other users think about such functionality?

  • 0 over 5 years ago in reply to Gizmo

    I think it's a solid idea for Garmin probably relatively trivial to do. Opening it up to CIQ I can appreaciate would be more of a challenge, but would bring a lot of new possibilities.

    For example if you want to run in the Blue hour or Golden hour in the morning every weekend a fixed timer won't do. A CIQ sun calc app which can use vibration would.