Weather widget on watch face

[GamesDean]

I'm trying to add a Weather widget to the watch face. Doesn't need to do anything onClick, just display the current temperature and maybe have an icon of the sun or clouds or something (similar to the Samsung Gear S series)

Is there a way to do this currently? I can't find it in the documentation

-Spencer

[pvols1979]

I have been trying to figure this out as well

[GadgetMOnster]

My understanding is that the Fitbit api does not provide this data as the weather app is a separate app. You would need to connect your app directly to a weather service such as Open Weather to obtain weather data.

[JonFitbit]

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@GadgetMOnster wrote:

My understanding is that the Fitbit api does not provide this data as the weather app is a separate app. You would need to connect your app directly to a weather service such as Open Weather to obtain weather data.

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This is correct. We do have a basic example on the developer website.

https://dev.fitbit.com/guides/communications/messaging/#fetching-weather-example

[Anthoang]

While we're on the subject of json data here, can the ionic retrieve json data from 3rd-party providers without the need of the companion app?  Or is the inclusion of a companion app necessary to retrieve json data?  

For example, If I were to display sport scores on the watchface, would this be possible with just an app for the Ionic watchface? 

[JonFitbit · Accepted solution]

At this time, all communication from the device has to go via the companion, but it's very easy to add.

Remy Sharp prototyped fetch() from the device, but it still use the companion.

https://gist.github.com/remy/2f5dbe7032004a5dd09bd57733d30ab6

[GamesDean]

Awesome, thanks Jon!

[WauloK]

Using the weather sample messaging code, I get an error on this line:

temperature = data["main"]["temp"];

Console says "index.js TS1005: ',' expected.

Ah! The semicolon should not be there.

[MarkLarsen85]

I know that this is an old post, bu t I am working on something similar and I cannot figure out how to retrieve the weather elements beyond the temperature level. I would like to return the current condition and the icon used. 

"weather":[
                 {"id":520,"main":"rain","description":"light intensity shower rain","icon":"09d"},
                 {"id":500,"main":"rain","description":"light rain","icon":"10d"},
                 {"id":701,"main":"mist","description":"mist","icon":"50d"}
              ],

"main" and "icon" are what i'd like to return along with the other stats that I already have returned 

[MarkLarsen85]

I posted too soon

data.weather[0].main