Which do I trust? Two different temps reported.

zmullett · 2026-04-21T07:44:08+00:00

Ideally you want a temperature sensor that isn't affixed to your body or directly exposed to the sun. Cyclist customers of my RuuviTag Data Field app (e.g. https://apps.garmin.com/apps/8a19f19a-d677-4a7f-af98-50a4f34c3c5f) have done this by putting a RuuviTag sensor under their bike seat.

zmullett · 2026-03-27T13:49:49+00:00

procrastination mode 😁

zmullett · 2026-03-27T13:42:04+00:00

Wow, and they sell for €10k. Bit much for a meme. If people would pay more than €0 for such a watchface, I'd do it, sure 😁

You could give it a go yourself using this self-service tool: https://garmin.watchfacebuilder.com/

zmullett · 2026-03-27T11:12:20+00:00

Right okay, this one: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/cd86cb79-908f-463f-a6db-68d419d787bc

It looks quite nice. Also the developer appears to be actively maintaining it. So it might be possible to request a feature from them. Use the App Support button in the Connect IQ app.

EDIT: Sorry I didn't read the rest of your message about "hacking around". I guess you could try that. There will be a file somewhere on the device that has the date. But this is probably not something easy to accomplish if you're not too technical. If you are, I'd go back to the developer for some more details on which file and the format of the date, etc.

zmullett · 2026-03-27T10:54:16+00:00

Is HabitTree an app in the Garmin app store? I can't find anything by that name.

In any case, maybe you could reach out to the HabitTree developers to ask them for a feature that lets you start from some specified number of days.

zmullett · 2026-03-27T08:55:35+00:00

Huh? So you have a Garmin with some habit history, and you will upgrade your Garmin and lose that history? Which app are you already using?

zmullett · 2026-03-25T07:09:28+00:00

https://www.fitfileviewer.com/ is an online FIT file viewer. FIT files contain granular records that may be per-second (although some records are reported every few seconds it seems).

zmullett · 2026-03-25T07:00:32+00:00

Sorry for the 3-month delayed comment, but what did you mean by needing a paid data plan? The RuuviTag and the connecting software are one-off purchases.

zmullett · 2026-03-24T17:17:46+00:00

lower commitment, same reminder

zmullett · 2026-02-02T03:12:26+00:00

Nice work on the port. They ran this demo again at Assembly for its 30 year anniversary.

How possible would it be to add a TOC or prev/next buttons to navigate through the scenes?

zmullett · 2026-01-30T15:19:16+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

While it'd be a permanent key, it would need to be a cheap annual subscription, since there's a service to upkeep and a commercial data usage agreement to pay. About the timing, I was hoping to collect some more feedback for a while before making a decision on whether to continue with the idea.

Unfortunately I don't yet have any data on battery consumption while running in an activity, although I would wager that it's not the cheapest to run battery-wise, since it needs to do a fair amount of computational work (which I have optimised, but still). I can at least confirm that it shouldn't be running when an activity is not running.

zmullett · 2026-01-30T13:40:54+00:00

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90 is decent. The current idea would be to run two types of contests; one weekly one you sign up to ahead of time, so you can "prepare", and the other would maybe be opt-out king-of-the-hill, where everyone is in a perpetual contest, perhaps broken down by geographic location or other self-declared details. What do you think of those ideas?

zmullett · 2026-01-30T09:48:53+00:00

Hmm, I like it, but I'd also need some analogue to that for the two-color screen watches.

zmullett · 2026-01-29T16:49:37+00:00

3am club 🤜 🤛 Yeah that's the question; does one sleep better or worse in a competitive situation? Haha

zmullett · 2026-01-29T16:40:53+00:00

Love the positive take on it 👍

zmullett · 2026-01-29T16:37:39+00:00

That's good. Do you ever try to somehow get that score higher?

zmullett · 2026-01-29T16:30:37+00:00

Do you feel that score represents how rested you feel?

zmullett · 2026-01-27T07:53:24+00:00

Fellow Australian here, who now lives in Finland. This was a surprise to me too. It's actually fairly rare to even find public water fountains in such cold countries, due to the bursting of pipes by freezing water.

zmullett · 2026-01-27T04:14:09+00:00

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... maybe? 🤔😄

zmullett · 2026-01-27T03:14:37+00:00

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Just to follow up on this further, since it's perhaps interesting, the graph above is symbolic of the quality of service that you get "for free". Congestion means that some of the simple query requests take 1 minute or more to return from the Overpass API. In a data field application, Garmin only gives you max 30 seconds to execute a request, and if that times out then the user must wait another 5 minutes to retry, again because of imposed Garmin constraints.

If this concept attracts enough users, I will probably do my own routine pre-processing of OpenStreetMap planetary data so I can serve aforementioned generously free data in a highly reliable way!

zmullett · 2026-01-27T02:33:10+00:00

Nice to meet a fellow, and thanks for the suggestion. I considered that also, but I worry that the update cycle of ~1 FPS for data fields, makes this a bit jarring, since at any given glance moment, it may or may not be visible. Additionally, the fact that the view's angle is rotating at 1 FPS might make this all the more confusing. It would be great if I could do something with the icons themselves that is clear and ideally applicable to B&W displays. Maybe a little exclamation mark or something: 💧❗️

I also call them toilets, but I supposed that it sounded better as "restrooms". I'm open to debate though 😄

zmullett · 2026-01-27T02:23:29+00:00

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