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[Watch Face Update] - Meridian - New “Navigator Mode” for hiking, trails, camping, and outdoor use

You can download it here https://apps.garmin.com/apps/e60d9198-40aa-4052-aec7-7fc2a376b600

Yes the image flyer is AI generated - Because the picture is worth 1000+ words.

I’ve been working on a new optional layout for my Meridian watch face called Navigator Mode.

Despite the name, this is not a turn-by-turn navigation feature. It is a purpose-built outdoor data layout designed to make the most relevant information easier to read while hiking, camping, spending time on trails, or being outdoors for long periods.

Top band — Climate & Environment

It can show:

  • Current weather condition and temperature
  • Chance of precipitation and humidity
  • UV index and cloud cover
  • Barometric pressure with trend direction
  • Current elevation
  • Activity Feels scores for light, moderate, and vigorous effort

Activity Feels combines temperature, humidity, UV, and altitude into three 0–10 scores. The goal is to estimate how demanding the conditions may feel once you begin walking, hiking, running, or exercising—not just report the air temperature.

Bottom band — Activity & Health

It can show:

  • Steps and distance
  • Floors climbed and descended
  • Current stress
  • Body Battery

Garmin does not expose true daily ascent and descent to a watch face, so floors up and down are used as practical climb and descent indicators.

Navigator Mode is:

  • Disabled by default
  • Enabled through the watch-face settings
  • Optional, so the normal four-corner layout remains available

The main goal is to keep weather, elevation, exertion, and recovery information visible around the dial without making the center of the watch face feel overcrowded.

• Completely free • 100% free • Free watch face • App is free • Watch face is free • Free. No ads.

I’d appreciate feedback from hikers, runners, campers, and other outdoor users

Please Note below: Its unfortunate that fēnix 6 series and older lacks:

  • Graphics.getVectorFont()
  • Dc.drawRadialText()
  • drawBitmap2() transforms used for rotated icons

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u/chipmux — 12 days ago
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[New App] - Activity Feels - Garmin app that tells you how hard today's weather will actually feel

Most weather apps give you one number. But a 90°F/30°C day feels very different on an easy walk vs a zone 2 run vs a tempo run. The feels like tempreature is basically how you might feel at rest, but this changes completely once you start moving.

Activity Feels calculates three separate difficulty scores (0–10) for the same conditions:

  • 🟢 LOW — easy walk, recovery session
  • 🟡 MODERATE — brisk walk, Zone 2 run
  • 🔴 VIGOROUS — tempo, intervals, hard efforts

Before I head out, I just glance at the score for my planned effort. If VIGOROUS hits 7+, I either shift to an easier session or go very early morning.

It factors in air temperature, humidity, UV index, and altitude. Wind is intentionally excluded because it varies too much block-to-block to give reliable guidance.

Works fully on-watch. No phone, no account, no subscription. Glance view supported.

You can download it here Activity Feels – Perceived Temperature by Effort | Connect IQ Store

• Completely free • 100% free • Free watch face • App is free • Watch face is free • Free. No ads.

u/chipmux — 14 days ago
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[New Watch Face] - [NEW FEATURE UPDATE] Meridian

I've been working on a Garmin watch face called Meridian, and I just shipped a feature I haven't seen anywhere else, so I wanted to share it.

Question to YOU

Can you reliably say by looking just at temperature and feels like temperature that its good to run or do any activity outside? If you do then how much effort are you gonna put in and how the climate is gonna affect your performance?

Link to the Watch Face: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/e60d9198-40aa-4052-aec7-7fc2a376b600

FIRST The problem with "feels like" temperature

Every weather app shows a "feels like" number. But that number assumes you're standing still. The second you start a zone-2 run — let alone tempo work or intervals — your body's reality is completely different. You're generating a ton of metabolic heat, and if it's humid, your sweat can't evaporate to dump it. A "feels like 20°C" morning can feel brutal at threshold pace.

What Meridian does instead

I added an Activity Feels-Like complication that shows three numbers at once:

32° / 40° / 47°

These are the perceived temperatures for Light / Moderate / Vigorous effort:

  • Light — walking. Roughly what your body actually feels at rest.
  • Vigorous — tempo runs, intervals.

So at a glance you can size up a walk, an easy run, and a hard session — before you head out the door.

The Complication setting

The Activity - Feels Like is at top right of the watch face. When you download the Watch face goto settings in your Connect IQ app and set the top right complication to Feels Like - Light/Moderate/Vigorous

How it's calculated

It's a heuristic (not a certified index), but it factors in what actually matters when you're moving:

  • Metabolic heat of the effort level — harder effort runs hotter.
  • Elevation — altitude adds cardiovascular strain and dehydration risk.
  • Wind is deliberately left out — it's too local and easily blocked to be trustworthy.

It also adapts to your °C/°F unit setting, and you can place it in any corner or inner slot.

About the face itself

Meridian is a clean analog face with configurable complications, multiple themes, selectable numeral fonts, and an always-on display mode that dims to a minimal layout (numerals + marks + hands) to protect AMOLED screens and save battery.

Would love feedback — especially from runners. Does the three-level approach make sense to you, or would you tune the effort weighting differently?

• Completely free • 100% free • Free watch face • App is free • Watch face is free • Free. No ads.

u/chipmux — 15 days ago
▲ 3 r/Garmin

[New Watch Face] - Meridian

Forerunner 570 - 47mm

I am the developer of this watch face called Meridian.

The video showcases 4 themes.

Its completely free . 100% Free. No ads.

Link to download - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/e60d9198-40aa-4052-aec7-7fc2a376b600

Important : Please note: on a few models the watch face runs in analog-only mode — the clock, dial, date, and hands all work, but the four corner data complications do not appear.
Affected models:
fēnix 6X Pro / 6X Pro Sapphire / 6X Pro Solar
Forerunner 255, 255 Music, 255S, 255S Music
vívoactive 5
All other supported watches that were released from Forerunner 265, 165 onwards, show the full face, complications included.

u/chipmux — 18 days ago

Future of this stock.

In my organization, we use Figma extensively. In an enterprise setup, our UI developers cannot work without Figma wireframes, especially if the interface is exposed to end customers. While you can get away with whatever you want for internal apps, the business side requires wireframe approval for externally focused applications. Given the stakes for multi-million or billion-dollar organizations, they simply won't take that risk.

I am not particularly concerned about AI companies like Claude or Gemini launching their own design functionality. These companies are burning a massive amount of money today. Unless compute becomes significantly cheaper or they find a way to radically expand their data center capacity, the price of their products could easily increase tenfold in the next couple of years.

Regarding the idea of data centers in space: do people really think that will provide an edge? Space-based data centers present technical and environmental challenges that are far more extensive and difficult than those on Earth. If a request is processed outside of Earth, it will inevitably be way more expensive.

Everything comes down to pricing. We are already seeing this shift; for example:

  1. GitHub Copilot has already changed its pricing strategy, making it feel more expensive than before.
  2. New models from Anthropic are incredibly intelligent, but they burn a lot of tokens.
  3. Even ChatGPT (which is nowhere close to Opus) only offers lower-cost inference because of Microsoft’s backing and the sheer amount of money they are burning.

This trend won't continue forever. There will be an inflection point where organizations realize that LLMs and AI companies are becoming too costly. That is when the value of companies like Figma will surge again. By then, Figma will have introduced features that augment LLM offerings at a much lower cost.

I can easily foresee Figma developing features where a wireframe integrates with an existing repository to set up the boilerplate code for an entire web application (whether in Angular, React, or any other framework). Figma has a very significant moat considering their enterprise penetration and existing feature set. I am very bullish on Figma and plan to hold it for at least five years.

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u/chipmux — 20 days ago
▲ 181 r/Garmin

[New Watch Face] - Meridian

I developed this watch face, it's free for all. It's called Meridian. Feedbacks welcome.

Link - https://apps.garmin.com/apps/e60d9198-40aa-4052-aec7-7fc2a376b600

No Data collected

It's free and always will be free. No need to buy me a beer if you liked it just have one yourself in evening and assume you bought me a beer.

Cheers.

• Completely free • 100% free • Free watch face • App is free • Watch face is free • Free. No ads.

u/chipmux — 21 days ago

Best of luck fighting this in the battlefield.

So guys, how many years are we behind China?

Today we say it is about 50 years. If the way India is continues for the next 10 years, that gap will only increase. It will go from 50 years to maybe 70 or 80 years in the next 10 years, and in the next 20 years, India will be at least 100 years behind China.

u/chipmux — 28 days ago
▲ 8 r/DjiNeo

Where do you fly your DJI drones in the USA?

From my research, there are a lot of restrictions on flying drones in the USA:

  1. City parks: Flying drones is generally not allowed.
  2. State parks: Flying drones is not allowed.
  3. National parks: Not allowed.
  4. National forests: They might allow it, but these places are often miles away from your house or the city.

I personally can't fly in my community because I need HOA permission. This leads to my honest question: where are you guys flying your drones in the USA?

There might be people living in the outskirts with independent homes who aren't part of a community, so they can fly around their house. However, for many people living in communities with townhomes or single-family homes, the communities themselves might not allow it. I have even seen someone in my community complaining to the HOA about it. I have also heard that you cannot fly drones on the beach.

So, really, the question is: what are the actual ways or places where you can fly?

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u/chipmux — 1 month ago

Apple needs to update their health app

I have been a long-time Apple Watch user, starting with the SE 2 before upgrading to the Apple Watch Ultra 2 as I got more into fitness and endurance training. I bought the Ultra 2 right when it was released and have been using it for about two years now. However, looking at the landscape in 2025, I have some serious concerns about Apple's direction compared to its competitors, like the Google Pixel Watch.

Accuracy aside—since the 2025 Pixel Watch matches the Apple Watch in heart rate and sleep tracking accuracy—the "premium sensor" marketing doesn’t carry the same weight anymore. What matters today is how much sense you can make of the data collected by your wearable.

When you look at a health app, you shouldn't have to overthink your status. While I understand health is about how you feel in your own body, we are paying for the luxury of an $800 Apple Watch Ultra that collects high-quality data. Yet, when you open the Health app, much of that data is just raw and difficult to interpret.

Consider these points regarding Apple’s stagnant software:

  1. Historical Lack of Innovation
    Apple Watch has been out for over 10 years now—we are on Series 11 or 12—and yet we haven’t seen major improvements to the Health app in years. It feels like the talented product owners and designers from a decade ago have moved on, and their replacements haven't given enough thought to meaningful new features.

  2. Surface-Level Metrics
    Apple only added a sleep score last year. Even then, it is a very basic score that doesn't factor in your resting heart rate or HRV. It's essentially a useless metric.

  3. Comparison to Competitors
    The Pixel Watch provides actionable insights that Apple completely ignores:
    (a) Training readiness
    (b) Cardio load
    (c) HRV trends (defining a baseline and tracking your range)

Apple Watch does none of this. It provides a bare-minimum health experience. People will argue that Apple has the best hardware, and I 100% agree, but it shouldn't require me to install a suite of third-party apps to get basic insights. Why can’t Apple integrate these features into the native Health app?

This has been a major disappointment for me and has eventually led me to switch to another ecosystem. I’m sharing this because I disagree with Apple’s current trajectory. They continue to add more hardware and features, but it doesn't make sense if the software can't capture that data and present it to the user in a meaningful way.

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u/chipmux — 1 month ago
▲ 4 r/Coros

265 to Pace 4

So I currently have a Forerunner 265 and I am good with it, but I wanted to try the Coros PACE 4 to experience the Coros metrics and ecosystem. I don't need the massive amount of data provided by Garmin; I just need basic information, and I think Coros does that very well.

However, while researching online, I have seen a lot of threads claiming that Coros is not very accurate when it comes to heart rate tracking. That isn't a major issue for me because I always use a chest strap during activities. My main concerns now are:

  1. GPS and Elevation: I am seeing a lot of posts saying the elevation is inaccurate and the GPS tracking is poor.
  2. Sleep Tracking: I have read that the sleep tracking is also quite bad.

These metrics—sleep tracking, GPS, and elevation—are essential for me. While other features seem good, I want to ensure I'm not buying a low-quality device.

When I compare it back to my Forerunner 265, I have used that without a chest strap and it was mostly accurate; the GPS is top-notch and solid. My only real issue is that the Garmin app feels very clunky, and I wanted to try something else as an experiment.

I would like to know your thoughts. I need an honest opinion about Coros rather than sugarcoating everything.

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u/chipmux — 1 month ago
▲ 0 r/Garmin

The screen less band

While cirqa is in news

Google fitbit air is interesting and its been many days reviewers like DC Rainmaker, desfit, shervin, Chase the summit have been trying it.

But till now so far i have not seen a single YTber to show how much accurate is the step, HR or sleep tracking of the fitbit air which is so important out of all the AI driven features out therr

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u/chipmux — 2 months ago
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Horizon Dial is back with more exiting updates

- Three Themes > Expedition Orange - Volt Yellow - Rogue

- Activity Rings - Max 3 rings supported - You can customize your fav activity under activity rings

- A dedicated customization bar, customize unto 4 complications

head here to download https://apps.garmin.com/apps/365b3492-fc18-4c05-95aa-c1c1ab7e6b60

Its free and always will be free.

Cheers and Enjoy

u/chipmux — 2 months ago

Circuit breaker trips immediately

In my house, in the circuit breaker panel, there is a circuit breaker which is tripping immediately when I try to turn it on. Surprisingly, it just tripped out of nowhere. We did no electrical work, there was no rain to trigger this, and nothing else has changed.

The affected areas are:

  1. The upstairs bathroom
  2. The lights along the stairs

Otherwise, everything else in the house works; the breaker specifically controls those parts only. I tried to turn off all the lights in the bathroom, the bathroom fan, and everything else on that circuit. However, when I try to turn the breaker on, it flips immediately. Within a second, it just flips.

I am not sure what the reason is, and I am concerned about a big cost to fix this. I am not a pro and don't have much experience with electrical work, so I cannot try to fix it myself by opening circuit boards or anything like that.

Please let me know your thoughts or suggestions. If there are any minor things I can do with the proper precautions, please suggest them.

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u/chipmux — 2 months ago

Incident during trail run

My friend and I went on a trail run and, unfortunately, my friend collapsed. He lost consciousness (basically, he fainted), and I had to call 911.

We were both using G@rmin watches—specifically the G@armin Forerunner 265. G@rmin notified the emergency contact via SMS, but his wife was looking after the children and didn't have a chance to check her messages. I thought about adding two or three more emergency contacts, but that doesn't solve the problem if you are out there alone. Being able to send an SOS directly to 911 or another emergency service would have been much better.

That was the day I realized how important this is, especially when you are alone on the trails. It is a deal-breaker for me because I have people waiting for me at home. So, the very next day, I sold my Garmin Forerunner 265 and bought an Apple Watch Ultra 2

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u/chipmux — 2 months ago

Apple Watch Ultra 2 Story

Recently, my friend and I went trail running. Out of nowhere, we realized something unexpected could have happened. We stopped at a particular point during the run after about 5k. For context, we routinely do 10 miles on Saturdays, so 5k is a pretty small distance for us.

We stopped to decide which route to take. The moment we did, and within three seconds, he collapsed. He fainted and fell to the ground. I didn't even know it at first because I was looking for the right trail. But when I looked back, I saw him lying there.

Fortunately, he didn't sustain any serious injuries. He had one small cut on his cheek that didn't require stitches, but it was deep enough to draw some blood. I gave him water, and he woke up in a minute or two. We then reached out to his doctor and found out his blood pressure had dropped. There were also other factors like dehydration, especially from running in the forest.

This is the gist of what happened. me and my friend was wearing a Garmin Forerunner 265. When I dropped him off at home, I checked with his wife to see if she'd received an SMS from Garmin. You know, Garmin sends an SMS whenever a fall is detected. But when we checked her phone, the SMS was there, but she was too busy to check it.

In this world, it often happens that you're very busy and don't check SMS messages frequently. So, even though it was in her inbox, she didn't see it. This is when I realized how bad this could have been. What if I hadn't been there, or what if it had been a more serious incident? Just informing an emergency contact isn't always enough. You might have two or three contacts, and if it's a bad day, all three might be busy or have "Do Not Disturb" turned on.

That's when I realized how important it is for a watch to notify SOS. We have 911 service here in the United States, and I realized that if it had been an Apple Watch, it would have notified 911. My friend would have been in good, safe hands even if he was alone. This moment made me realize how important this feature is, especially with family back home waiting for us to return.

The very next day, I sold my Garmin Forerunner 265 on Facebook and bought an Apple Watch Ultra 2.

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u/chipmux — 2 months ago

Apple Watch Ultra 2 Story

Recently, my friend and I went trail running. Out of nowhere, we realized something unexpected could have happened. We stopped at a particular point during the run after about 5k. For context, we routinely do 10 miles on Saturdays, so 5k is a pretty small distance for us.

We stopped to decide which route to take. The moment we did, and within three seconds, he collapsed. He fainted and fell to the ground. I didn't even know it at first because I was looking for the right trail. But when I looked back, I saw him lying there.

Fortunately, he didn't sustain any serious injuries. He had one small cut on his cheek that didn't require stitches, but it was deep enough to draw some blood. I gave him water, and he woke up in a minute or two. We then reached out to his doctor and found out his blood pressure had dropped. There were also other factors like dehydration, especially from running in the forest.

This is the gist of what happened. me and my friend was wearing a Garmin Forerunner 265. When I dropped him off at home, I checked with his wife to see if she'd received an SMS from Garmin. You know, Garmin sends an SMS whenever a fall is detected. But when we checked her phone, the SMS was there, but she was too busy to check it.

In this world, it often happens that you're very busy and don't check SMS messages frequently. So, even though it was in her inbox, she didn't see it. This is when I realized how bad this could have been. What if I hadn't been there, or what if it had been a more serious incident? Just informing an emergency contact isn't always enough. You might have two or three contacts, and if it's a bad day, all three might be busy or have "Do Not Disturb" turned on.

That's when I realized how important it is for a watch to notify SOS. We have 911 service here in the United States, and I realized that if it had been an Apple Watch, it would have notified 911. My friend would have been in good, safe hands even if he was alone. This moment made me realize how important this feature is, especially with family back home waiting for us to return.

The very next day, I sold my Garmin Forerunner 265 on Facebook and bought an Apple Watch Ultra 2.

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u/chipmux — 2 months ago