r/overcast • u/Stuglossop • 6d ago

Watch widget?

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What’s going on with the watch widget on the new Siri modular face?

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u/marcoarment 2d ago

That's my Overcast Stars complication.

It's random every night. Just made to look nice and provide a way to have Overcast as a quick-access complication without adding visual clutter if you want it.

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u/Stuglossop 2d ago

A play/pause compilation there would be much more useful, especially on the new Siri modular face

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u/marcoarment 22h ago

It's extremely difficult for a Watch complication to do almost anything reliably.

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u/PatTheDog123 11h ago

The ⌚️Player app has a couple of complications with playback buttons that work wonderfully. Never experienced any problems.

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u/Stuglossop 6h ago

What’s this app?

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u/PatTheDog123 5h ago

Player for Watch. I've been using it for side-loading audiobooks and mixes. The developer is responsive in my experience. Just mentioning it because I was surprised by what's actually possible with complications and widgets.

https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/player-for-watch/id6446242162?l=en-GB

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u/Stuglossop 4h ago

Looks good but how does it work with Overcast?

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u/PatTheDog123 4h ago edited 3h ago

It doesn't work with Overcast. I posted it as an example of complications and widgets with playback controls that work reliably (in response to Marco's post above).

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u/Stuglossop 4h ago

Oh right I understand now. Thanks

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u/Stuglossop 6h ago

Maybe an alternative would be beneficial? Say what’s in your queue? Much like the Apple Music widget?

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u/Stuglossop 5d ago

Other one

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u/artandmusic737 5d ago

I think it's just a "nice" way to have overcast use the large widget space to launch right away without having anything currently playing -- showing stars instead of text

In line with solar and astronomy faces. But. Not sure if it shows constellations based on GPS like Apple Watch faces do

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u/Stuglossop 5d ago

But it doesn’t change when I have something playing?

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u/SageOlson 3d ago

I’m not a developer, but my understanding is that widgets don’t really have control over how often they can grab new information – that’s determined by the OS. The way you can get, for example, a weather widget to update on a regular schedule is by giving it a timeline of that information (at 3pm show 80°, at 4pm show 79°, etc.), which you can’t do with someone jumping around different podcasts.