Name: Essential Watch
Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Author: BVDesigns

A FREE watchface which shows all the essential data at a glance - time and date, battery level, steps (in thousands) and heart rate, with current weather temperature.

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Time in 12/24 hour mode based on Garmin account settings. The date format can also be changed in the settings menu.

In order to display the goal progress circle for heart rate, it is necessary to add your personal goal in the settings menu as it is not possible to get these from your profile.  The steps goal is taken from your profile.

The bluetooth icon appears when connected and disappears when disconnected.

Features:-
- The colour of the steps and heart progress circles can be customised.  The colour of the battery circle changes based on the level.
- Configurable date format.
- Highlight colour configurable.

Weather:
- Provided by OpenWeatherMap.  Only 2 weather updates per day, so option to enter your own weather API key for more frequent updates.  Choice of temp unit in settings - C or F.
Please note that the weather is retrieved using your location, which is taken from your last activity.  In order to get the weather you must first obtain a GPS lock by opening any activity that uses GPS such as walk or run (no need to start it, just wait for the GPS to show "Ready" then exit).  After this, you will need to wait up to 15 minutes (the weather update frequency) to see the weather displayed properly on your watch.  If you move to a different place, you will need to obtain a GPS lock again using the above steps.

If you have any issues, PLEASE visit, and carefully read, my FAQ page first (https://www.bvdesigns.info/faq) and follow the advice and instructions given before using the "Contact Developer" link - most of the answers to your questions should be there.  If contact is made first and the answer is already there, you will be referred back to the FAQ page.  Your co-operation on this would be most greatly appreciated.

https://www.bvdesigns.info/garmin

**Note on colours:  Due to the display technology, some of the Garmin system colours may look muted on actual devices.  You will not be able to see things on your device as they are on a computer, due to different technologies for the Garmin watch display, and different monitors on the computer which host the simulator.**