Clock updates every minute but API data does not

[chmod_700]

I have a watch face that has a clock and some API data pulled from the web. I see that the following refreshes the clock every minute:

// Update the clock every minute
clock.granularity = "minutes";

How would I set the fetched API data to update every minute as well? Should it be something like apiData.granularity = "minutes"; ?

Here is my app/index.js file:

import document from "document";
import * as messaging from "messaging";
import clock from "clock";
import { preferences } from "user-settings";
import * as util from "../common/utils";

// Update the clock every minute
clock.granularity = "minutes";

let demotext = document.getElementById("demotext");

// Listen for the onopen event
messaging.peerSocket.onopen = function() {
  console.log('loading');
  messaging.peerSocket.send("Hi!");
}

// Listen for the onmessage event
messaging.peerSocket.onmessage = function(evt) {
  console.log('event', JSON.stringify(evt.data))
  var dataTest = JSON.stringify(evt.data);
  this.ui = document.getElementById("demotext")
  this.ui.text = dataTest;
}

//Listen fo rthe onerror event
messaging.peerSocket.onerror = function(err) {
  
}

// Get a handle on the <text> element
const myLabel = document.getElementById("myLabel");
const apiData = document.getElementById("apiData")

// Update the <text> element every tick with the current time
clock.ontick = (evnt) => {
  let today = evnt.date;
  let hours = today.getHours();
  if (preferences.clockDisplay === "12h") {
    // 12h format
    hours = hours % 12 || 12;
  } else {
    // 24h format
    hours = util.zeroPad(hours);
  }
  let mins = util.zeroPad(today.getMinutes());
  myLabel.text = `${hours}:${mins}`;
}

[Gondwana]

At a quick glance, I think your code will update the watch screen whenever a message is received. What you need to do is to ensure that messages are received as often as you want them. You'll have to do that in the companion.

[JonFitbit]

Just to add to this... either use the companion wakeInterval to fetch new data, or when the screen wakes tell the companion to fetch data by sending it a message. Ideally, you only want to minimize impact on the battery by not requesting when the display is off.