Steps per hour on Iconic clockface

[Zatzpa]

Hey Fitbit, I REALLY want an ICONIC clock face showing steps by hour (X of 250) along w/ the time.

Your new OS made accessing hourly steps a 3-stroke action, every time, which is very annoying. Your old OS was sticky, so even though I couldn't see the time and the hourly steps on the same screen, I could set my watch to display hrly steps throughout the day with just a turn of the wrist. And use my phone for the time. 

[Stu_B]

I used to use the Blaze watch face "Circuit" which had an option to see the hourly steps progress.

I would love to see something similar, or for Fitbit to make the hourly steps that the Ionic is counting available to developers using the SDK so that they can incorporate it.

On the updated OS for Ionic, it is possible to have the Hourly steps at the top of the Today view, so all it takes now is a swipe upwards to see the progress.  Better, but still not as good as having it on the watch face itself.

[SunsetRunner]

I'm not going to look for you but with the hundreds of watch faces available, I would be surprised if none of them show what you desire. I realize though that it's a daunting chore to look through all of them.

[stuartma]

I would really like this as well! I've been playing about with developing a watch face of my own and can't find any API for this so I'm not sure if a watch face would have to create it own sudo X steps per out log and use that instead of the built in feature.

Could be done this way, but it wouldnt be as clean as actually having API access to the data

[Stu_B]

About a month ago I looked at all the available faces, although there are more now, none at the time had this feature.

The fact that the API that SDK developers are using does not expose the hourly steps makes it less likely to appear than other easily displayed values, such as total steps.

there was a developer on one thread who suggested a possible implementation, using custom code, but there was little to no response to that idea. 

Hopefully someone will stumble across one and share the knowledge 😄

[Zatzpa]

I've looked. There is not a watch face with this option.

[EddieWK]

I've looked as well.  I would love to see this on the main screen.  It would save me a lot of time that I spend every day swiping so I can see how many steps I still need and whether or not I've accomplished the current hour's goal or not.  If the SDK doesn't support getting this information, then it's not very likely that any clock face will support showing it, so they really have to add this to the SDK.

[JaySurender · Accepted solution]

Steps 2 Go clock has what you're looking for!

[bhwolf]

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@Stu_B wrote:

About a month ago I looked at all the available faces, although there are more now, none at the time had this feature.

The fact that the API that SDK developers are using does not expose the hourly steps makes it less likely to appear than other easily displayed values, such as total steps.

there was a developer on one thread who suggested a possible implementation, using custom code, but there was little to no response to that idea. 

Hopefully someone will stumble across one and share the knowledge 😄

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Agree -- honestly, the last thing Fitbit should encourage is people writing their own algorithms to calculate steps in the current hour.  It should be in the SDK.  The problem with writing this manually is the watchface may not be running all the time -- if you go to Today or any app/exercise/etc., the watchface is shutdown.  Once the watchface is relaunched, you'd (as the developer) have to decide how to resume, which could be done differently on each face, and might look different than what's on the dashboard.  So it's messy.

[Zatzpa]

Awesome. Just downloaded the new clock face and will give it a try. 

[JJ.65]

I can not find Steps 2 Go

[SilviaFitbit]

It's great to have you here @JJ.65! Remember that since this type of clock face isn't made by Fitbit, they might not be available all the time. Also, some clock faces are only available for Fitbit Ionic and not for Versa in case you're not using Ionic. 

Hope you're able to find it. 

[TheRunnerOne]

I found the EV clockfaces support steps/hour. If you search for EV- you will find all 3 of em.

Ignore the Xmas one. 

[morningReign]

I wrote a watch face, ILuvChrono, that does this. Granted this is an approximation, but it does work very well, especially if the watch face is actually available to run on the hour. When the API function to access steps on the hour becomes available, I will update accordingly.

App gallery is at https://gallery.fitbit.com/details/bda6f514-3946-49ba-a4ed-75e8470ab034