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Apps CARROT Weather's customizable complications

How do I get the AW3 complication on the Nike face to show real time weather temp?

I have to use the stock Apple app to get real time updated temperatures.
The carrot one i have to click o and wait for it to update.

I’m sure I’m doing it wrong.
 
Thanks for your prompt replies! Random tangential question:

I noticed that Carrot Weather is listed as a backgrounded app. The description of backgrounded apps says that apps may also use data in the background if they are acting as complications on your active watch face.

My conclusion from this would be that if I have it enabled as a backgrounded app shouldn’t that avoid the need to have it in the dock or as a complication on whatever watch face I happen to be using? (i.e. to ensure notifications are coming through)

Cheers!
 
When I look at my watch it may say partly cloudy starting this evening. However if I open the phone app or watch app it may update to light rain starting in10 mins. It’s as though it’s getting a newer forecast when opening the app. I was out walking yesterday suddenly to be told rain starts in 3 mins.

I thought the watch app was supposed to update with a new forecast every 15 mins. Why only give me a 3 minute warning for rain?
 
Minarets said:
How do I get the AW3 complication on the Nike face to show real time weather temp?

I have to use the stock Apple app to get real time updated temperatures.
The carrot one i have to click o and wait for it to update.
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You shouldn't have to open the app to get it to update, unless you're not a subscriber. Try rebooting both your phone and watch and let me know if that helps!

farleysmaster said:
I noticed that Carrot Weather is listed as a backgrounded app. The description of backgrounded apps says that apps may also use data in the background if they are acting as complications on your active watch face.

My conclusion from this would be that if I have it enabled as a backgrounded app shouldn’t that avoid the need to have it in the dock or as a complication on whatever watch face I happen to be using? (i.e. to ensure notifications are coming through)
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Hmm, which screen are you seeing this information on?

ardsar said:
When I look at my watch it may say partly cloudy starting this evening. However if I open the phone app or watch app it may update to light rain starting in10 mins. It’s as though it’s getting a newer forecast when opening the app. I was out walking yesterday suddenly to be told rain starts in 3 mins.

I thought the watch app was supposed to update with a new forecast every 15 mins. Why only give me a 3 minute warning for rain?
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It updates every 30 minutes or so, but the Apple Watch determines when the actual updates will occur based on things like battery remaining, etc. Storms can also crop up quickly based on tiny changes in weather patterns, so sometimes you won't get a full 30 mins warning.
 
farleysmaster said:
iOS Apple Watch app: My Watch -> General -> Background App Refresh
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The message on that screen is saying that apps are able to refresh in the background, but they still do so using mechanisms like complications, the Dock, and server-side push notifications. They aren't just randomly given permission to run in the background whenever they feel like it. So no, you still need to either have a complication active or put the app in the dock.
 
That seems counterintuitive to me, as you can explicitly switch that permissionon or off from the screen, and the sentence would suggest that even if that permission is denied the apps will still do background processing if they are acting as compilations (etc.).
 
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I just know what Apple has told watch developers many times over the past couple years, and they explicitly state every time that watch apps cannot update automatically in the background except under special circumstances.

Watch apps aren't actually *running* in the background when you go back to the watch face, they're completely suspended, but the system wakes them up to perform tasks if and only if they are in the dock or have an active complication or have received a server-side push notification. iOS apps work very similarly, they can't actually run code in the background whenever they want - they either need to use special permissions to keep running in the background (i.e. a podcast app that can play audio in the background) or they need to do something special to get woken up in the background (i.e. push notification or significant location change).
 
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farleysmaster said:
That seems counterintuitive to me, as you can explicitly switch that permissionon or off from the screen, and the sentence would suggest that even if that permission is denied the apps will still do background processing if they are acting as compilations (etc.).
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No etc. If it’s in the dock and you turn off background refresh it would not refresh. I think the wording isn’t great, but you’re confusing yourself by trying to read things that aren’t there. Complications override the setting, that’s all.
 
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MakerOfCARROT said:
It's on my list of things to fix with the next update. I already made a big change in the beta that allows you to force an update to the location and weather data by tapping the current location button in the force touch locations menu.
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I guess Ill go back to Accuweather on the watch til its fixed. can confirm with recent beta, it's not fixed. I took off from Orlando today, landed 3 hours later in Chicago, Turned off Airplane mode on watch and phone, watch shows 75F and sunny. Chicago is 44F and cloudy.
This should be a priority IMO.
 
The beta going out today is more aggressive at updating data if the user has moved a significant distance since the last update, even if the data itself has been updated recently. This should combat the problem with coming back from airplane mode.

I'm guessing what was happening before was that the app updated its data with the old location before the GPS got a lock on your new location, so the app wouldn't do another data update since it had just downloaded fresh data a few seconds before that. (If that's not the issue, then it's likely the connection between the watch and the phone has stopped working - a known bug in watchOS - so the fresh location data from the phone isn't getting passed to the watch. In that case I'd have to make the watch perform the location updates itself, which I don't really want to do because location updates on the watch take forever and affect battery life. I'd have to make it a setting because this is only affecting a very small number of users.)
 
I think that at this point, you should at least leave it as an option to manually/automatically update the weather for us users who are the "small" percentage having issues with the app not updating to the proper location as I wouldn't mind having that choice even if it were to affect battery life. I just paid about $9 or so for the app+subscription and even refreshing it manually, the city is still wrong and not accurate. Thus, I have to use the stock weather app for accurate readings and all which defeats the purpose of Carrot Weather app. Please update it and if there is a Beta, i'd like to participate by the way. I really like the app and it has good potential, just need it to serve its purpose and be accurate.
 
intoxicated662 said:
I think that at this point, you should at least leave it as an option to manually/automatically update the weather for us users who are the "small" percentage having issues with the app not updating to the proper location as I wouldn't mind having that choice even if it were to affect battery life. I just paid about $9 or so for the app+subscription and even refreshing it manually, the city is still wrong and not accurate. Thus, I have to use the stock weather app for accurate readings and all which defeats the purpose of Carrot Weather app. Please update it and if there is a Beta, i'd like to participate by the way. I really like the app and it has good potential, just need it to serve its purpose and be accurate.
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The beta allows you to manually update your location via the locations screen on the watch. You can request an invite to the beta by submitting a support ticket - tap the green feedback button at the bottom of the settings screen!
 
MakerOfCARROT said:
The beta allows you to manually update your location via the locations screen on the watch. You can request an invite to the beta by submitting a support ticket - tap the green feedback button at the bottom of the settings screen!
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Interested in the beta program if you're looking for more testers. I have a premium account.
 
@MakerOfCARROT - Possible to request a "Professional" complication as a large slot option for the watch, as opposed to "Snark"? Out of all the possible large slot complications, my preference is to have the current condition displayed, but there are times when I would prefer "sunny" to "frakking sun," for example.
 
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Achilles75 said:
@MakerOfCARROT - Possible to request a "Professional" complication as a large slot option for the watch, as opposed to "Snark"? Out of all the possible large slot complications, my preference is to have the current condition displayed, but there are times when I would prefer "sunny" to "frakking sun," for example.
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All the other options *are* the professional options :p The icon is what tells you whether it's sunny, cloudy, etc.
 
BigMcGuire said:
This was a HUGE factor in me buying the app even though I had already paid for Weather Underground. Developer is super responsive. App is pretty cool. Works really well on the AW. Doing great!
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Fully agree. I've increased my subscription from Premium to Ultrapremium. Didn't really need to but wanted to support the dev. Into the future with CARROT!
 
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Achilles75 said:
@MakerOfCARROT - Possible to request a "Professional" complication as a large slot option for the watch, as opposed to "Snark"? Out of all the possible large slot complications, my preference is to have the current condition displayed, but there are times when I would prefer "sunny" to "frakking sun," for example.
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That's why I stopped using this app. It's really nice looking but the lack of a "professional" selection of wording just puts me off. It was funny to see sometimes but as time moved on it became more and more lackluster to the point of annoying. One of the best weather apps out there, but I had to move on.
 
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