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Wind Direction

Description

If you wish to support the development you can send me a coffee here https://buymeacoffee.com/peterdd</p><p></p><p>FAQ: https://starttorun.info/wind-direction/</p><p></p><p>The Wind Direction data field shows the direction of the wind (relative to your path of travel) and up to 2 metrics.</p><p></p><p>Donations</p><p>The data field is fully functional without donating (there is a message at regular intervals to encourage donations, refreshing the wind direction info can occur multiple times per activity after donation).</p>

What’s New

WHEN USING CONTACT DEVELOPER ADD YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS OTHERWISE I CAN'T REPLY!</p><p></p><p>Check out my other apps: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/developer/bd929e5f-ba13-4cd6-9c55-ca9ba71bed83/apps</p><p></p><p>VERSION HISTORY</p><p>2.3 fix temperature conversion</p><p>2.2 change default weather provider to Garmin, change default arrow color to green</p><p>2.1 added beaufort scale</p><p>2.0 added ability to choose the color of the directional arrow, added extra weather provider.</p>

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Average Rating: (23 Ratings)

Nathan
August 20, 2022 | Version 2.4.2

Arrow shifted a lot and wind speed never showed up.

Adggim
May 20, 2022 | Version 2.4.2

У мене невірно показує

Ngo C K Joshua
March 30, 2022 | Version 2.4.2

Hi, I really like the simplicity of the app but in order to have it works better, I would like to know : 1. is there a plan to improve the accuracy drastically? 2. can the fond size of the wind speed. be reduced so that the directional arrow can be seen more easily? Thanks

Billy Ray
November 26, 2021 | Version 2.4.1

Sorry for just 2 stars but this app shows a wrong wind direction. Here in Germany we have a lot of windparks and sometimes this app have a 180° fault. Any idea why ? East /west have a 180° fault and north/south less...

Martin Larner
September 9, 2021 | Version 2.4.1

The windspeed overlaying the arrow is a bad idea. There's plenty of room to have them side by side. My vision is a bit poor so I can't really see (farsighted), but it's still not good. The arrow is also poor. It should be very clear which is the tail and which is the point. Finally, I have found the accuracy unreliable. Many times, it has been literally 90º or 180º off from actual wind direction, when checked physically and with Weather Apps.

Gene Bugler
August 14, 2021 | Version 2.4

Does this app show relative wind speed as well as relative direction? Is it possible to show only relative direction an actual wind speed. For example if I’m going in the same direction as the wind at the same speed (say 10mph) does it show a wind speed of zero or 10 mph tail wind?

Graham Rae
July 26, 2021 | Version 2.4

Just 1 data point from using it this weekend in strong winds. The relative direction arrow was always180 deg flipped. When I had an obvious headwind, tailwind or crosswind (confirmed from the way crops at side of road etc were bending) then the arrow was always in opposite (wrong) direction.

Tomasz Saciuk
February 16, 2021 | Version 2.3

The direction of the wind shown by the arrow does not coincide with the direction of the wind numbers expressed - funny

Developer Reply
February 16, 2021, peterdedecker

Your own direction of movement is also taken into account

Juan Martin Simon
February 7, 2021 | Version 2.3

No coincide para nada con la realidad ni en la dirección del viento ni en la velocidad. Una auténtica mierda. Por lo menos es gratis, pero no sirve para nada.

Molina San Agustín
January 18, 2021 | Version 2.3

Me resulta útil, pero creo que apunta al lugar de donde viene el viento en lugar de hacia donde va, una vez te acostumbras a que va al revés, está bien

Berne Nyberg
October 29, 2020 | Version 2.2

If i choose temperature for field 1 (internal or from internet) the value is totally wrong. It shows a negative value, far away from the correct temperature.

RichardEsqueda
October 16, 2020 | Version 2.2

I would say great, if the contrast colors can be changed. Maybe black background with Yellow numbers or vice versa

Stephen Johnson
September 4, 2020 | Version 1.3

Great app and as someone else mentioned it would be nice to get better contrast between the arrow and numbers. Maybe green or red?

xuxumatu
June 10, 2020 | Version 1.2

Very nice app, easy to install, easy to use, compared to other similar 2 apps, I would just change the arrow position, the number can not be read on shadows.

Developer Reply
June 10, 2020, peterdedecker

Thanks, I'm currently integrating the field into my "All In One" data field, but I'll add it to my list to try to provide an option in this field to put the arrow next to the number. (Maybe something which might also work is to provide options to choose a lighter color for the arrow as you wouldn't have shadow then) Cheers, Peter.

박종구
May 25, 2020 | Version 1.2

Works great.