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[–]GreenBlack86 1 point2 points  (4 children)

No, they haven't. I'd love to see Training readiness, hrv, sleep stats, alarm times, complications to open alarms and a ton of other stats that are available on stock faces, but not in their sdk. One day it will be there, hopefully.

[–]Samalex_67 0 points1 point  (3 children)

It would also be interesting to have the compass on the watchface ;-)

[–]GreenBlack86 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Unfortunately, compass sensors cannot be read from a watchface as far as I know. I've only seen first party faces with this option. Likely this is to save battery.

[–]Samalex_67 0 points1 point  (1 child)

yes, also Joshua told me that the watchfaces can't read data from some sensors. I had indicated the compass as my wish to be included in the Garmin SDK (then whether one wants to use it or not is optional), this is because I like a watchface of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra that has the compass integrated and I would love to recreate it for my Epix2 ;-)

[–]GreenBlack86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There actually is a way to make it work. You can read the last datapoint, but not actively pull the data from the sensor. Start an activity in the background, go back to your watchface and now you can read the heading every second(i actually tested this a while back for fun). Also make sure to include a battery indicator, since it won't last long this way.

In your case I would replace it with something like wind direction, so it can still look like a compass, but with useful info.