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The Idea
The idea of this Clear & Powerful watch face for Garmin devices is to be as clear as possible with ability to present the data either when they are needed or when it's most relevant time to show them.
The idea of this Clear & Powerful watch face for Garmin devices is to be as clear as possible with ability to present the data either when they are needed or when it's most relevant time to show them.
Wrist Move to wake up
Garmin devices, when displaying watch face, operate in one of 2 modes:
Garmin devices, when displaying watch face, operate in one of 2 modes:
Wake-up mode - data & view can be refreshed in this mode once per second
Sleep mode - data can be refreshed only once per minute
You can wake up your watch face by wrist move towards your eyes. Wake up mode lasts usually for about 10 seconds (controlled by Garmin firmware).
The watch face can present multiply views with separate content:
The watch face can present multiply views with separate content:
Simple View - available by default for non-OLED displays (while Garmin is preventing OLED against burn in), presenting minimal required information while device is in resting (sleep mode)
Detailed View - by default presented in wake-up mode, witch can presents additional fields - especially below the main clock. Detailed View lasts by default for about 10 sec. and is composed of 2 screens:
1st Screen - presents set of customized fields during first few seconds (3 sec. by default) of Detailed View
2nd Screen - next set of customized fields presented till the end of Detailed View (till 10 sec. by default)
Always-on View- designed for OLED displays with limited information & floating clock to be inline with Garmin rules to present always on display
Note that you can extend duration of Detailed View, 1st Screen & Always-on View in the watch face settings.
Views
Simple View
(not for OLED displays)
Detailed View
(1st Screen)
Detailed View
(2nd Screen)
Always-on View
(mostly for OLED displays)
Data bars
All fields are organised into following groups:
All fields are organised into following groups:
Top bar (A)- presenting battery status only for now
Status bar (B) - presenting dynamic, relevant, configurable set of icons depending on your choice & current states of data
Clock (C) - main, biggest, centred line with current clock time
Date bar (D) - additional line below the clock presented only on Simple View. Usually with current date.
Below clock bar (E) - with 2 fields to configure
Bottom bar (F) - witch additional 2 fields to configure
Note that by default Always-On View displays only the clock.You can activate experimental feature to display status bar and date line, but it will work only on bigger screens.
Simple view
Simple view
Detailed views
Detailed views
Always-On View
Fields configuration
Filed configuration options:
Filed configuration options:
Never/alerts only - by default fields are not displayed unless alert would appear (usually controlled by separate option or target level). Configure alert threshold to specify alert conditions
Always when active - field would be displayed on Simple & Detailed Views while having the proper value
On Detailed View / 1st Screen - field would be displayed only on Detailed view on 1st Screen
On Detailed View / 2nd Screen - field would be displayed only on Detailed view on 2nd Screen
On Detailed View / Always - field would be displayed on both screens of Detailed View
Visit Fields for possible fields & icons description/
Status bar is presenting dynamic, relevant, configurable set of icons depending on your choice & current states of data. You can configure to display some icons only when defined trigger is active e.g.:
Connection - when lost only
Heart Rate - too low or too high rate
Oxygen - too low oxygen saturation in the blood
Temperature - too low or too high temperature
Wind - too strong wind
Pressure - high pressure change (+/- 4 hPa in 3 hours)
Altitude - below the sea altitude
Moon - when full moon (+/- 1-2 days)
Sunrise/sunset - alert 1h before/after sun event occurs
Achievement - alert on reaching the goal with e.g. step count, burned calories, etc.
Body battery / Stress level - low body battery / high stress level (available for System 5 Garmin devices)
Note that you can switch this alerts off directly in settings (Yes/No) or by settings threshold extremely high/low (e.g. 300 bits for high heart rate alert)
Status bar / Alerts
Configuration
Options
You can configure watch face on your mobile, synchronised with you Garmin device through one of Garmin apps:
You can configure watch face on your mobile, synchronised with you Garmin device through one of Garmin apps:
Garmin Connect - presenting battery status only for now
Garmin IQ Store - presenting dynamic, relevant, configurable set of icons depending on your choice & current states of data
See all configuration options: Configuration
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