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Orbit HUD

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Set up the face before you download

A digital watch face in the style of a cockpit HUD. Amber lines on black, the time in two frames, and in the middle a round reactor with a ring of segments and a seconds dot that travels around its orbit. At the bottom, a strip of Earth photographed from the International Space Station.

What is on the face:

  • steps and distance at the top, with a 0-100 scale under them showing progress towards your daily step goal,
  • the days of the week on the left, today highlighted,
  • the time HH MM in frames with AM and PM under them (24H in 24-hour mode),
  • heart rate, year, date and temperature with a weather icon on the right,
  • status icons: alarm, Do Not Disturb, Bluetooth and notifications,
  • the brand label, a battery scale and the percentage at the bottom.

You can change the fields: both at the top, both in the right column, the field inside the reactor (a crosshair by default, as in the original design) and what both scales show. You can pick from 33 kinds of data, including energy level, stress, pulse ox, pressure, calories, floors, altitude, sunrise and sunset, VO2 max, wind, humidity and UV index. A field can also stay empty.

You choose the brand label yourself: your watch model, your own text (up to 16 characters, typed on the phone or picked from presets on the watch) or nothing.

You can also set:

  • the colour: amber, cyan, green, red or white,
  • the Earth photo or a black background,
  • seconds on the reactor orbit (hidden automatically when the watch saves the screen),
  • the thresholds where the battery turns orange and red,
  • how long weather data counts as current. The phone sends the weather and the face cannot force it to fetch new data, so older data shows as "--",
  • the always-on screen on AMOLED: whole face dimmed (default), time with date, time only or off,
  • the date language (13 languages), time format and leading zero.

Everything can also be changed on the watch, in the Customize menu, with a live preview.

The padlock from the original design is not here, because a watch face cannot tell whether the phone is locked. A notifications icon takes its place.

Works on 101 Garmin watches: fenix 5 Plus to fenix 9, epix, Enduro, MARQ (including MARQ 2), D2, Descent (including Mk2), Approach S50 and S70, Legacy, Forerunner 165 to 970, Venu (including Venu Sq), vivoactive 4 to 6 and Instinct 3 AMOLED. On MIP screens the colours are matched to the 64-colour display, and on older watches (fenix 6, Forerunner 245, first generation MARQ, Descent Mk2, Legacy, Venu Sq) a line of atmosphere replaces the Earth photo.

The face asks for location access only to calculate sunrise and sunset on the watch and to tell day from night for the weather icon. It sends nothing to the internet.

Trial: the face works fully for 7 days. In the last 3 days the number of days left appears in place of the brand label. After that the face shows your Watch ID and dialforge.dev. Buy a code for that number and enter it in the Connect IQ app, in the face settings (Unlock code).

Code not working? Write to kontakt@dialforge.dev and I will fix it or refund you.

If the face is useful to you, you can buy me a coffee: buycoffee.to/iwannaflysohigh

Permissions and privacy

This product asks the watch for the permissions below. Connect IQ shows them when you install it.

  • Sensor history: Reads recent values stored by the watch (for example Body Battery, stress, heart rate, steps trend).
  • Your profile: Reads your Garmin profile on the watch (for example age, weight, heart rate zones) to calculate values for you.
  • Watch data (complications): Shows data from other watch features, such as battery or steps, on the face.
  • Location (GPS): Uses the watch location for distance, speed or sun and moon times. The location is not sent anywhere.

This product does not use the internet and sends no data to our servers.

Unlock

€4.49

One-time payment. No subscription. The code works on the watch whose UID you enter.

  1. Download the face for free (button at the top of the page) and put it on your watch. You pay nothing for 14 days.
  2. Find your 10-digit UID: Connect IQ app on the phone > My Device > Watch faces > Orbit HUD > Settings (first field).
  3. Enter UID and e-mail, pay with PayPal (cards work without a PayPal account). The code appears here at once.
  4. Type the code into the same settings page, field "Unlock code". The watch checks it offline.

Paste the whole text from the watch, for example ID 123 456 7890. We will take care of the rest.

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