SmartArcs

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SmartArcs is a suite of Garmin watchfaces. They were designed to be clean, minimalist and highly configurable. The suite consists of three watchfaces:

SmartArcs Origin - simply focuses on time, nothing else (download)
SmartArcs Active - gives an overview of your daily activity (steps and floors) (download)
SmartArcs Trip - shows useful trip data in two configurable data fields and two graphs (download)

Description

SmartArcs name comes from a common functionality to all three watchfaces - colored arc indicators around the screen to display:

battery status
number of phone notifications. First notification is displayed as five minutes arc, each other as one minute arc.
Bluetooth connection status
do not disturb status
number of alarms. First alarm is displayed as five minutes arc, each other as one minute arc.
civil twilights

Watchfaces are updated once each minute. Some watches support updating the screen every second. On those watches SmartArcs can display also:

‘always on’ second hand
heart rate

Note: SmartArcs currently does not support every second screen update on watches with AMOLED screen (Venu® models and D2™ Air)

SmartArcs Origin

This watchface focuses on time. It can display:

number of days to an event, e.g. number of remaining days to your vacation or next marathon
dual time (‘+’ means there is already next day in the dual time location, ‘-‘ means previous day)
date

SmartArcs Active

This watchface gives an overview of your daily activity:

steps/distance on the left side. First line displays daily steps, second line walked distance (in kilometers or miles depending on systems settings). Arc shows how you fulfill daily steps goal.
floors on the right side. First line displays climbed floors, second line descended floors. Arc shows how you fulfill daily climbed floors goal.

SmartArcs Trip

This watchface shows useful trip data in two configurable data fields and two graphs.

Data fields options

daily walked distance
elevation
pressure
temperature

Graph options

elevation
pressure
heart rate
temperature

Civil Twilights

SmartArcs watchfaces display also morn ing and evening civil twilights. The arcs represent the civil twilight periods with sunrise/sunset and civil dawn/dusk as beginnings or ends of the arcs.

Note: Civil twilights indicators require access to GPS location. If GPS location is not available civil twilights indicators are not displayed.

Power Saver

There is no need to update watch screen whole day, e.g. when you sleep. SmartArcs watchfaces come with a unique feature, you can set up a period of time when the watch screen is not updated. It can save up to 15% of battery life (depending on power saver confuguration, measured on vívoactive 3).

Please note that this function saves battery life only when SmartArcs watchface is active (shown on the screen), it has no impact in any other application.

Garmin does not allow any input method (screen touch, button press) in watchfaces. That’s why you cannot invoke screen update by user input in the power saver mode. The only way to refresh the screen is to look at your watch. When you raise the watch to look at it, the watch exits sleep mode and the screen is updated. An attempt to workaround missing watchface input methods is to update the screen in user defined intervals when the watchface is in power saver mode - see next chapter for details.

Power Saver Settings

Power saver can be configured in a few ways. It can be enabled:

in defined time window - only in specified time period
always - whole 24 hours

When power saver is enabled the watch screen can be updated:

5, 10 or 15 minutes - the screen is regularly updated in defined intervals. You can somehow rely on displayed time. It is indicated by small battery icon.

never - the screen is never updated, you cannot rely on what is displayed. It is indicated by big battery icon.

Colors

SmartArcs watchfaces use 64 colors palette on watches which support it. See Reference Guide for details about your watch.

Black (Garmin)	Cetacean Blue	Duke Blue	Dark Blue (Garmin)	Dark Green (X11)	Midnight Green (Eagle Green)	Cobalt Blue	Blue (RYB)
Dark Green (Garmin)	Green (Pigment)	Tiffany Blue	Blue (Garmin)	Green (Garmin)	Malachite	Medium Spring Green	Aqua
Dark Chocolate	Imperial Purple	Metallic Violet	Electric Ultramarine	Dark Bronze (Coin)	Dark Gray (Garmin)	Liberty	Very Light Blue
Kelly Green	Apple	Cadet Blue	Blue Jeans	Chlorophyll Green	Screamin' Green	Medium Aquamarine	Electric Blue
Dark Red (Garmin)	Jazzberry Jam	Heliotrope Magenta	Purple (Garmin)	Windsor Tan	Middle Red Purple	Purpureus	Lavender Indigo
Light Gold	Olive Green	Light Gray (Garmin)	Maximum Blue Purple	Spring Bud	Inchworm	Menthol	Celeste
Red (Garmin)	Folly	Fashion Fuchsia	Pink (Garmin)	Orange (Garmin)	Sunset Orange	Brilliant Rose	Shocking Pink (Crayola)
Yellow (Garmin)	Rajah	Melon	Rich Brilliant Lavender	True Yellow	Dodie Yellow	Calamansi	White (Garmin)

Color names were taken from color-name webpage. Colors named with (Garmin) suffix belongs to default Garmin 14 colors palette.

Donation

SmartArcs watchfaces offer premium features for free, e.g. power saver or graphs. I don’t plan to make paid or trial watchfaces. If you like SmartArcs watchfaces please consider a donation. It is an appreciation of my work and all donations are for a good cause.

I resend all donations to non-profit organizations, mainly:

Thank you!

Feedback

If you have any comments to SmartArcs watchfaces feel free to send me a message (okdar@centrum.cz). You can also write a review in Garmin ConnectIQ Store:

SmartArcs Origin (review)
SmartArcs Active - (review)
SmartArcs Trip - (review)

Credits

The idea of arc indicators was inspired by Activity Classic Watch Face and ManniAT Face.