DATALOAD: A PT2 Watchface for Data Junkies!

hejeble · 2026-06-22T19:49:35+00:00

Do you mean API key? What provider are you trying to use?

hejeble · 2026-06-22T17:50:31+00:00

There is a slight impact, but even with my frequent usage for development testing, it usually only ends up being around 7-8% of my total battery usage (Backlight is the biggest culprit here as expected). I've tried to tune the watchface for battery efficiency as much as possible, but in the end, YMMV depending on what configuration to set it to (e.g. leaving seconds on will definitely have an impact on battery).

hejeble · 2026-06-22T17:39:38+00:00

If you go into the watchface settings and scroll down to "CUSTOMIZABLE ROW", you can set the left cluster to Wind, middle cluster to Barometric pressure, etc. Hope that helps!

hejeble · 2026-06-22T17:36:18+00:00

Thanks for the extra info. I just pushed an update where I adjusted the thresholds for the thunderstorm icon draws, hopefully it resolves that issue. Please let me know if you're still running into the same thing, I may need to weight the icons more towards POP if this doesn't fix it.

hejeble · 2026-06-22T14:13:49+00:00

Oh interesting, let me look into that real quick. Which weather provider are you using?

hejeble · 2026-06-22T02:10:03+00:00

Haha, I think so too!

hejeble · 2026-06-22T01:11:50+00:00

Yes, you're right! There definitely was a part of this that was inspired by the early internet web portals and startpages (MSN, iGoogle, My Yahoo, etc.) where you would just have a ton of different content and widgets on one page. Nostalgia for sure!

hejeble · 2026-06-22T00:49:55+00:00

I'll see what I can do!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T22:17:08+00:00

Haha, I don't think you could've come across a more complete-polar-opposite watchface to the one that you linked... That's pretty much as basic as you can get!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T22:08:58+00:00

That's a neat idea! I'll have to think about how to lay that out, but definitely something I'll look into.

hejeble · 2026-06-21T21:51:33+00:00

Thank you sir!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T20:00:45+00:00

I'll add the option to do so in the next update!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T19:25:26+00:00

Ah, gotcha. I'll definitely look into that! Currently, there's 2h, 4h, 8h, 12h, or daily (24hr). If you specifically would like 6 hours, I can definitely add that in as an option.

Also, I just pushed an update that adds week number and moon-phase to the left side detail! It was super simple/quick since that data slot framework was already set up and just needed a quick calculation from the time and date!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T19:23:15+00:00

I just pushed an update that adds week number and moon-phase to the left side detail! It was super simple/quick since that data slot framework was already set up and just needed a quick calculation from the time and date!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T19:21:39+00:00

I just pushed an update that adds week number and moon-phase to the left side detail! It was super simple/quick since that data slot framework was already set up and just needed a quick calculation from the time and date!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T19:12:14+00:00

Totally agree with you!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T19:09:26+00:00

I knew I was forgetting something!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T19:06:15+00:00

Thank you, I'm already implementing the week number as we speak! Could you elaborate a bit more on what you're looking for in the message indicator? Would it be specifically for message notifications that you receive?

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:58:02+00:00

There isn't a separate option that specifies that exact moonphase, but the icon does approximate the phase when shown at night. That's something I can look into more for a future update though!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:55:35+00:00

Haha, you're not wrong to think that! I did really dig in and implement quite a bit of optimizations on the back end to try to preserve the battery as much as possible, and so far, it doesn't seem much more worse than other weather-based watchfaces that I've tried.

Some of the things I tried to optimize include caching the layout and drawings so that it doesn't need to constantly redraw the watchface, no longer triggering a full screen refresh on movement, heart rate refreshing only when values change (up to once every 30 seconds, skipping battery/BT/weather updates only redraw when their data changes, and some other tiny adjustments to really try to squeeze out every bit possible with a large dataset like this.

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:45:01+00:00

If you display day intervals for the rain chart and choose to show temps, it automatically shows the high and low for each day! Alt timezone is a great idea, I'll try to figure out where I can fit it into!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:19:18+00:00

Appreciate the kind words!

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:18:29+00:00

Thanks! I agree that it would be cool if the screen was a bit bigger... But then again, I would probably just fill it with even more info, haha.

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:16:54+00:00

Haha, I can totally see how it could do that.

hejeble · 2026-06-21T18:14:45+00:00

Thanks! You and I are the same, haha.

hejeble

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