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The utter uselessness of the weather widget

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over 2 years ago

Am I the only one who has serious issues with the weather widget that make it borderline useless?

1) So apparently the only way for it to update at all is to have the Garmin Connect App running on your phone constantly. I won't blame Garmin too much for this, I understand there are some technical limitations that require the app to run for a weather update. Fine.

2) But even if you have the App on all the time, the weather widget hardly updates at all. Whenever I check it, 90% of the time it has old data or no data at all. The red exclamation mark in the widget glances is almost always there. How did they make this even worse than on the Forerunner 245?

 At this point I just won't bother with it anymore. It would actually be nice to have a quick glance at the weather forecast without looking at your phone. For example, it would be great for the morning report, as I try to refrain from grabbing my phone early in the morning after waking up. But 90% of the time, my morning report has no useful weather data, even if the watch was connected to the phone during the night and Connect was running.

What are your experiences with the weather widget?

  • 0 over 2 years ago

    Yes, I also noticed that since 12.23 there is a need for constant connection to phone. I'm syncing my FR255 in the morning to save the battery, and on the previous firmware weather glance was showing the current weather and temperature (accordingly to the downloaded forecast when syncing with phone). Now it doesn't show the temperature (which is weird, as the data is downloaded from Garmin Connect App). The lack of weather information is valid also for morning report.

  • 0 over 2 years ago in reply to 3190523

    I had a lot of issues with my 955. 
    have you tried

    1. remove device from phone Bluetooth (forget it in iOS)

    2. Remove the GC app completely from the phone

    3. restart both devices , on the Garmin so a long press power off until it powers off.

    4. Reinstall the GC a app and sign in to Garmin account etc

    5. select pair on the device 

    this helped my connection and related issues a lot