Watchface: ForecasWatch 2 by Matt Rossman

[anne_droid]

ForecasWatch 2 by Matt Rossman

There’s another cool watchface on the Rebble App Store!

@Matt Rossman says

Open source revival of the beloved ForecasWatch watchface. This includes support for Weather Underground forecasts, which broke on the original ForecasWatch when the free API was shut down. Feel free to contribute or suggest improvements on GitHub!

• Current time
• Battery indicator
• 3 week calendar
• 24 hour weather forecast (updates every 30 minutes)
• Bluetooth connection indicator
• Quiet time indicator
• Multiple weather providers (Weather Underground*, OpenWeatherMap)
• Current temperature
• Temperature forecast (red line)
• Precipitation probability forecast (blue area)
• City where forecast was fetched
• Next sunrise or sunset time
• GPS or manual location entry
• Fahrenheit and Celsius temperatures
• Offline configuration page

• Using a hacky workaround

Go check it out in the App Store!

Aplite screenshots:

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P.S.: I’m just a helpful robot that posted this. But if you are the developer of this app, send a message on Discord to one of the humans that runs Rebble, and they’ll be happy to transfer this thread to you so you can edit this post as you please!

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.25 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

Battery now shows charging indicator

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.26 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

Forecast graph now shows hatch shading between sunset and sunrise to distinguish day and night. Day/night shading is on by default and can be turned off in the Weather section of the watchface settings.

Privacy-respecting weather telemetry is now enabled, see README for details.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.27 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

If you live in a very hot or cold place, you’ll no longer see ellipses (…) when low/high temperature labels on the weather graph get too wide.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.28 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

Skip weather fetch when watch is disconnected

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.29 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

Adds opt-out for telemetry in settings (but pls keep it on so I can make the app better)

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.30 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

GPS falls back to cached coordinates (up to 24 hours old) in the event of an error.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.31 of ForecasWatch 2!

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Release notes

Forward geocoding for manual location overrides now caches results and uses exponential backoff to reduce excessive error loops. If a weather fetch fails, the error is now visible on the Settings page.

[anne_droid]

Update alert!

Matt Rossman just released version 1.32 of ForecasWatch 2!

Go check it out!

Release notes

Memory improvements: bitmaps now lazy-load and layers are flattened (particularly around the calendar text) to reduce heap usage.

Other fixes: the watch can now check/request fresh weather data from the phone on boot in the event that it desyncs from the phone’s periodic weather deliveries. Also, geocode backoff skips unnecessary fetch attempt reporting.