Caen Watches
Hiking Barometer Mk. II
Update 20260204: added WFF compatibility. Still no altimeter. Barometer disabled by Google. Compass will disappear ifโฆ
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- Published on Jan 22, 2022
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Comments (6)
Guanche
I like it a lot, useful and efficient. I run into a couple of issues during my backpacking outing last weekend. Overnight, as always I set my watch to bedtime mode. In the morning the time had become out of sync and the time to sunset was stuck on sunrise time. It took toggling my watch face to a different one altogether to fix the time sync, but the time to sunset never got fixed. There was no phone signal in the back country; could that have something to do with it? I'll gladly pay for this watch face, and I think many more people would. There's just no serious hiking watch face available for Wear OS, in my opinion.
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Thank you Guanche, and I'm glad my watch found at least some use on a real trip! I'm a bit of a hiker myself and the lack of trekking watches inspired me to make this one. So I think this is what happened: Facer gets sunset data from OpenWeatherMap based on GPS, and it downloads that day's info at midnight. So if you lose signal, go to bed, and wake up still without signal, sunset/sunrise isn't loaded onto your watch until you regain Internet access. I THINK that's what's going on. I just tested it on my own watch and it's functioning normally, but I'm in the middle of a city. Maybe WearOS technology isn't quite ready for serious hiking. But anyways, thank you for telling me; this is the sort of thing I need to know about. I will be keeping an eye on it, this watch is a troublemaker!
