Name: SolarHarvest
Author: SolarHarvest

Your watch has a solar panel. Garmin's answer to that is a tiny sun icon. Solar Harvest actually measures what that panel is doing for you: real battery gain and drain pulled from your own watch (not a marketing number), a live compass tracking exactly where the sun is and where it's headed before sunset, and a "catching" score that calls out shade and canopy instead of blaming your sensor.

Seven pages of real astronomy, computed on your device (sunrise, sunset, elevation, bearing, no stale weather cache needed), a sun-bonus estimate that learns from your own rides/outdoor activities and remembers it next time out, and four alerts tuned to only interrupt you when it's actually worth knowing. Fourteen developer fields turn all of it into real charts on Garmin Connect after your activity too, not just numbers nobody can read.

WHEN NUMBERS APPEAR
Your watch reports its battery in whole percent steps, and Solar Harvest only quotes what those steps prove. At a typical GPS drain of about 2% an hour:
• Solar intensity and full sun time: right away. Catching, sun window and compass: once GPS locks
• Battery drain: an upper bound after 5 minutes, an early "~" read within about 30 minutes, and a confirmed rate with runtime left within about an hour
• Sun Bonus: about 6 to 6.5 hours in one activity, or pooled across activities with a mix of sun and shade, roughly six 2-hour activities or three 3-hour ones. Until then it reads "measuring". Values relying on earlier activities are marked "~"

HOW TO ADD SOLAR HARVEST TO AN ACTIVITY
Some newer watches offer to add Solar Harvest to an activity as soon as it installs. If yours did not ask, or you have an older watch such as the fēnix 6 series, add it yourself:
1. On the watch, press START and choose the activity you want to use it with, such as Run or Hike.
2. Hold MENU (the UP button) and open that activity's settings.
3. Select Data Screens, then choose a screen to edit, or add a new custom data screen.
4. Change the layout to a single field for the full Solar Harvest display.
5. Select the field, scroll to the Connect IQ category near the end of the list, and choose Solar Harvest.
6. Press BACK to save. Solar Harvest now appears whenever you start that activity.
On many newer watches you can also do this from the Garmin Connect app: open your device, go to Activities & Apps, choose the activity, and edit its Data Screens.

IF SOLAR HARVEST IS NOT IN THE CONNECT IQ LIST
- Sync your watch with Garmin Connect so the download can finish, then restart the watch.
- Update your watch software.
- Watches limit how many Connect IQ data fields one activity can use, often to two. Remove one to make room.
- Data fields appear only inside activities, not on the watch face or in glances.

Free, and always will be. If it makes your rides and or activities a little brighter (pun intended) and you'd like to say thanks, tips are never expected but always appreciated: https://ko-fi.com/texasbe2trill