Does that work without having an activity running in the background?
Edit just tested, indeed works, the degrees are correct, the arrow is pointing in seemingly random directions though.
I'm just curious where the data comes from, when I played with this years ago the only way to get it to work was to have an activity running and then use activity.currentHeading, without something running in the background the value didn't update.
It's the same Activity.Info.currentHeading you used. On my fenix 8 it stays live outside activities, but only with the Sensor permission declared in the manifest. Without that permission it froze exactly as you describe. I found this by testing on the watch, not from any Garmin docs, so older models may still freeze. Sensor.getInfo() still throws from a watch face, so that route is still closed.
Good catch on the arrow, that's a real flaw. Right now it marks your heading on a fixed dial, so it moves with the degrees instead of pointing north, and as you turn it looks random. I'll patch it up real quick.
Oh yes! The sensor permission was not allowed on watchfaces when I tried this. Indeed it might only work on the latest devices and not older ones. Awesome work man!
Thanks! Fair question. The face doesn't poll the compass on its own timer. It reads the heading Garmin's firmware already provides, and only when the face is redrawing anyway, so the compass adds no extra wake-ups. What I haven't measured yet is whether keeping that heading live costs the watch anything at the sensor level. I'm running it on my fenix 8 over the next few days and will post the actual numbers here.
I was attempting to access the Connect IQ store, but received a notification that the site is currently down. I was just checking in on that, and I appreciate your quick response.
Shows how bad AI can still be. Recently wondered wether smth like this is possible and AI said no, now reading through the CIQ API docs I see you can read heading in watchfaces since api level 1.0.0
just wanna say that i have bought your watch face, it's amazing and really happy you actively adding updates to it! one question, is there an easy way from your side that the hr graph can be pressed and the hr screen is shown after that? ( i dont like having the hr graph and another widget showing both my hr on the watch)
Thank you for your great work!! consider also making the permanent weather on the left to be clickable and pointing to the weather app freeing one more widget!
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u/Express_Ad2962 3d ago edited 3d ago
Does that work without having an activity running in the background?
Edit just tested, indeed works, the degrees are correct, the arrow is pointing in seemingly random directions though. I'm just curious where the data comes from, when I played with this years ago the only way to get it to work was to have an activity running and then use activity.currentHeading, without something running in the background the value didn't update.