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Apps CARROT Weather's customizable complications
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Interestingly I had a 4 hour journey in my car this afternoon. I set location in the large complication, and kept an eye on it. Without opening the app at all, the location updated around 4 times during the journey. However, each update showed the location where I had been roughly an hour or 60 miles earlier. Now I'm home, complication hasn't updated from last journey location 2 hours ago.
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You can't fault the developer for their interaction on here so I'm sure he'll (they'll) update us on our issues shortly.
Agreed. Can't fault the customer service. Particularly as we're just insignificant meatbags
Meatbags?, yes, insignificant?......... Yeah, your probably right there as well.
Yes, it should be updating its data every 30 minutes - i.e. if you look at your Watch at 4:59 and then again at 5:00 (and at 5:29 and 5:30), the temperature should change as long as the temperature is actually changing noticeably enough throughout the day. If you spin the Digital Crown to activate Time Travel, you'll notice the data changing at those half-hourly bounds. (If you're using a small complication slot, you might have to spin it ahead a few hours to see the temperature change if it's staying pretty level where you're located - the large slot displays more data, so it's easier to see changes throughout the day there.)
It should be less than 2km to activate a location change update if you have location services set to "always", but it's possible that isn't actually getting sent across to the Watch to update the complication. Updating the complication from the iPhone was always something that sometimes worked, sometimes didn't when watchOS 2 first came out.
I think what's likely happening is that the complication data *is* getting updated, but the location update is failing, so it just looks like it's stuck with old data because the location label is showing a location from earlier in the day. Maybe in the next beta seed, I'll add some sort of symbol like an asterisk to the complication when the location update fails so we can see if that's really what's happening in these cases.
Thanks for the response.
All day today I wasn't getting an automatic update on the large complication and that includes traveling 10 miles and waiting over 45mins in the new location. (Please note that I didn't just sit there in the new location watching my AW waiting for it to change, I'm not that sad......... I looked on the Internet for vinyl flooring while I waited)
The app (complication) didn't and wouldn't update until I activated the app.
Sorry to go on but it's Saturday, I've had a drink and I really should be out but the weather is awful....... *activates the app, oh! It's alright now.
So is the complication not updating AT ALL? Or is the location label just not updating? Regardless of whether your location actually updates, the weather data should still be updating with new temperatures, etc every 30 minutes. To test this, try scrolling Time Travel ahead a few hours and see if the temperature, condition, etc changes.
I can confirm that the location does not update every 30 min. I was home for 2 hours today and the location was stuck where I was 2 hrs before.
I will say, not sure how it does it, but the stock Apple weather app updates fairly often. I switched to it tonight and when I left the house, correct location. Drive to dinner, and the location updated. Drive home and looked at the watch and it updated to the new location while I was looking.
I will say, not sure how it does it, but the stock Apple weather app updates fairly often. I switched to it tonight and when I left the house, correct location. Drive to dinner, and the location updated. Drive home and looked at the watch and it updated to the new location while I was looking.
The latest beta update fixes a location issue as you can read in the posts between me and the developer. I drive 15 miles to work and within usually 30-45 mins of arriving there, my location is updated and the app shows the correct weather data.
Well it wasn't working for me yesterday and I'm currently running the latest beta.
I found myself using a different app yesterday for my current weather report.
It's very accurate, free and it updated instantly, if you want to give it a go it's called "Look Out Of One Of Your Windows".
All jokes aside, Carrot Weather is my go to weather app which has always been accurate and to my knowledge updated without any interaction other than raising my wrist.
Considering re-installing, maybe mine has contracted a glitch.
I've just returned from a brief shopping trip to the town where I live (so effectively the same location) and location in the large complication is showing "Unknown". First time I've seen this behaviour.
Edit: after two hours, correct home location has re-appeared. Server-side issue?
Edit: after two hours, correct home location has re-appeared. Server-side issue?
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"Unknown" should only show up if the Watch failed to download the location name from Apple's servers (they have a service that takes in a longitude/latitude and spits back the city name, state, etc).
Complication request:
Condition and precipitation chance.
For most of the year here in southern China, it doesn't matter to me what the temperature is... It's hot consistently. Right now it's cool, also consistently. And most importantly it won't change throughout the day so having temperature is kind of unimportant to me.
The condition pictures make a far prettier watch face addition than pure text.
Condition and precipitation chance.
For most of the year here in southern China, it doesn't matter to me what the temperature is... It's hot consistently. Right now it's cool, also consistently. And most importantly it won't change throughout the day so having temperature is kind of unimportant to me.
The condition pictures make a far prettier watch face addition than pure text.
Just got this screen. Now this is rare, as the newest updated beta has been working nearly flawlessly since you fixed the last location issue. Just wanted to see if this "current" location name is somewhat normal and could show from time to time. I guarantee if I look again in a little bit, it will be fixed on its own.
I've gotten that one, as well as "unknown", once or twice since the latest update. Working on tracking it down!
Ah, the dreaded "unknown!" Just as an aside, I'm finding that it's currently taking around 2 hours from arriving home from work before location is changing. Earth's magnetic poles flipping polarity? Damn meatbags
Ah, the dreaded "unknown!" Just as an aside, I'm finding that it's currently taking around 2 hours from arriving home from work before location is changing. Earth's magnetic poles flipping polarity? Damn meatbags
I have a couple things to try with getting the location label to update more frequently, hopefully one of those will work!
It felt like the previous beta, the location and data updated more frequently then the current beta. The only issue was with "Current Location" and "Unknown" showing up more often.
For me, location updating is accurate and takes usually under one hour to show my current location correctly. Weather data is always up to date.
Today's forecast is almost entirely rain from now on. the large complication (using time travel) seems to alternate between - rain: later, later on, in a bit, by and by, in ~3 hours.
Is this expected? It's already raining according to the forecast, it seems very peculiar to tell me it's going to rain later if it already is?
The latter is the strangest one. Why would it tell me it's going to rain in about 3 hours when it already is raining...
Is this expected? It's already raining according to the forecast, it seems very peculiar to tell me it's going to rain later if it already is?
The latter is the strangest one. Why would it tell me it's going to rain in about 3 hours when it already is raining...
Usually when the complication is showing that it's currently raining, it will:
1) Show when it's supposed to stop raining if that data is available
2) Show "rain for the hour" if the data shows it's going to be raining for >1 hr
3) Show the percentage chance of rain for the *next* hour if 1 and 2 aren't available
However, it only shows those details for the near future. Once you get farther out on Time Travel, it switches to showing what the weather will be like in 3 hours from the time that's currently displayed. The different messages - "later", "in a bit", etc - are just randomly displayed so it's not always the same message.