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DIALFORGE
Photo Sport

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€6.49

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

  1. Install the face from Connect IQ (7 days free).
  2. On the watch: face settings > Buy / Unlock, scan the QR code.
  3. Pay and paste the code in the face settings.

A sport watch face on your own photo: the time, heart rate, steps and battery, and a ring that fills up towards your steps goal.

7-day free trial, one-time unlock, no subscription.

The face has no picture built in: until you send a photo, it shows a plain dark background with a short hint. It looks best on AMOLED. On MIP screens (fenix 7, Forerunner 255, Forerunner 955, Enduro 3) the photo has fewer colours: check it yourself during the 7-day trial.

How to add your photo

1. In the face settings on the watch turn on "Show photo QR code" (it turns off by itself when the photo arrives).

2. Scan it with your phone, or open foto.dialforge.dev and type the 8-character photo code shown under the QR code. The same code is in the face settings in Garmin Connect (Photo code).

3. Pick a photo, fit it in the circle, send it. The photo appears on the watch a few minutes later.

The watch needs a phone with Garmin Connect and internet nearby. For two hours after you show the QR code it checks every 5 minutes, then once an hour (Photo check in Garmin Connect).

Change or delete

Change the photo as often as you like: same code, send a new photo on foto.dialforge.dev, the watch downloads the new version. Show the QR code once to get it faster. "Delete my photo" on the same page removes it from the server and the watch goes back to the plain dark background.

Photo not showing?

The QR screen shows the minutes since the last check and a number after #. #0 or #1: all fine, wait a few minutes. #-1104 or other four digits starting with -1: the phone is not connected, open Garmin Connect. Four digits starting with -2, or #-404: the photo did not download, send it again. #-903: too big for the watch memory, the next try takes a smaller one. Anything else: send me the number.

On the face

  • Time over the photo with the date in your language.
  • 3 data fields in a row (heart rate, steps, battery): distance, calories, floors, Body Battery, stress, Pulse Ox, sleep score, altitude and more. Hold a field to open its Garmin screen (touch screens).
  • Steps goal ring around the dial, can be turned off.
  • 6 accent colours, photo dimming on AMOLED, optional seconds, data refresh profile in Garmin Connect.
  • Always-on mode on AMOLED: grey time, date and fields, shifted every minute.

Privacy

The server (Cloudflare) keeps only the cropped picture without EXIF or location, linked to the photo code, not to your name. Anyone who knows the code can see it, so keep it to yourself. More at dialforge.dev/privacy. The background service is used for the photo, so there is no glucose (CGM) field.

Trial: after 7 days the face shows your Face ID. Buy a code for that number at dialforge.dev and enter it in the Connect IQ app, in the face settings (Unlock code). Problems: kontakt@dialforge.dev.

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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.
  • Background process: Lets the app run short tasks in the background, for example reminders.
  • Internet through the phone: Lets the watch make a web request through your phone. Used only for the colour service described below.

Popular colour sets service

Every 6 hours the face downloads the list of popular colour sets from dialforge.dev. If you changed the colour set, it also sends that set's number. The request contains only the number, the face name and the face version. It contains no watch ID, no unlock code and no e-mail. We count choices, not people. Details: privacy policy.

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