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Summit Climb

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A climbing watch face: altitude, today's ascent, heart rate with a graph of the last hour, distance, weather and pressure over a picture of a climber on a rock face at sunset. Big time in the middle, a goal arc at the top.

  • Altitude from the watch barometer and today's ascent, in metres or feet following your watch units.
  • Heart rate with a line graph of the last hour, 60 to 180 bpm.
  • Weather from Garmin through your phone: icon, temperature and feels-like. Pressure in hPa, distance today, battery.
  • Goal arc at the top: floors climbed or steps against your Garmin goal, or off.
  • Four accent colours (orange, blue, green, gold) and three backgrounds: the sunset picture, a blue version or plain black. Labels and date in 13 languages, 12 or 24 hour time, leading zero setting.
  • Always-on mode for AMOLED: only the dimmed time, shifted every minute.
  • Tap a field to open the matching Garmin screen: altitude, heart rate, weather or pressure. The tap can be switched off.
  • No animation, to save battery.

The background is a fixed picture, not a live camera view: a climber on a rock face at sunset, darkened where the numbers sit. The blue and black backgrounds are there if you prefer a calmer look.

When there is no data the face shows "--" instead of a made-up value. Slope and compass are not on the face: Garmin does not give watch faces access to them.

Companion app: Summit Screens by Dialforge, a separate app in the store, adds five screens with a compass, an altitude profile, weather, heart rate and a climb summary. With it installed, tapping the altitude at the top of this face opens the app.

Settings: on the watch (hold MENU, then Watch face, then Customize) or in the Connect IQ app.

A little request from the maker

Dialforge is my student project. I build these watch faces after classes, so they are still at an early stage, and I could not test every watch model myself. If something looks wrong on your watch, please do not leave a negative rating: write to me first at https://dialforge.dev/faces/summitclimb/ and I will fix it, usually within 24 hours. A kind review means more to me than you can imagine. And if you like my work, you can buy me a coffee (the link is at the bottom of dialforge.dev): I am saving up to pay for my studies. Thank you for your patience and for giving a young developer a chance.

Manual

Summit Climb: user manual

What it does

Summit Climb is a climbing watch face. At the top: altitude from the watch barometer with the unit (m or ft above sea level) and a goal arc. On the left: heart rate with a graph of the last hour (60 to 180 bpm) and today's ascent. On the right: battery. In the middle: date and a big time. At the bottom: distance today, the weather (icon, temperature and feels-like, from Garmin through your phone) and pressure in hPa. The background is a fixed picture of a climber on a rock face at sunset, darkened where the numbers sit; a blue version and plain black are also available. There is no animation.

Requirements and supported watches

Needs Connect IQ 5.0.0+ and the Connect IQ or Garmin Connect phone app. Round AMOLED watches only (the photo background needs a colour screen): Approach S50, S70 (42 and 47 mm), D2 Air X10, D2 Mach 1, Mach 2, Mach 2 Pro, Descent G2, Mk3 (43 mm), Mk3i (51 mm), epix (Gen 2), epix Pro (Gen 2) 42, 47 and 51 mm, fenix 8 (43, 47 and 51 mm), fenix 8 Pro, fenix 9 (43, 47 and 51 mm), fenix 9 Pro (43, 47 and 51 mm), fenix E, Forerunner 165, 165 Music, 170, 170 Music, 265, 265S, 570 (42 and 47 mm), 70, 965, 970, Instinct 3 AMOLED (45 and 50 mm), MARQ (Gen 2), MARQ (Gen 2) Aviator, Venu 2, 2 Plus, 2S, 3, 3S, 4 (41 and 45 mm), vivoactive 5, 6.

Installation

In the Connect IQ app on your phone (or Garmin Connect, then the Connect IQ Store) find "Summit Climb" by Dialforge, tap Install and sync the watch. Then hold the watch face (or the menu button), choose Watch Face and select Summit Climb.

First launch

The sunset picture with orange accents. The 7-day trial starts the first time the face runs. When there is no data the face shows "--".

Controls

Watches with buttons (START, UP, DOWN, BACK)

  • No actions of its own. Settings: menu button (UP), Watch Face, Customize.

Touch watches (tap, hold, swipe)

  • With "Tap fields" on (the default): tapping heart rate, weather or pressure opens the matching Garmin screen, where Garmin provides one.
  • Tapping the altitude at the top opens Garmin's altitude screen, or the Summit Screens app by Dialforge when it is installed (a separate app with a compass, an altitude profile, weather, heart rate and a climb summary).

Settings

Watch: menu button, Watch Face, Customize. Phone: Connect IQ app, Summit Climb, Settings.

  • Accent colour: Orange, Blue, Green, Gold. Default: Orange.
  • Background: Sunset, Blue, Black. Default: Sunset.
  • Arc goal: Floors climbed, Steps, Off. Default: Floors climbed (floors against your Garmin floors goal; Garmin counts one floor as 3 m).
  • Tap fields: on or off. Default: on.
  • Time format: automatic, 12-hour, 24-hour. Leading zero: automatic, always, never.
  • Date language: automatic (watch language), English, Polish.
  • Code status, Device UID and Unlock code: phone only, for the unlock code bought at dialforge.dev after the 7-day trial.

Data and limits

Altitude: Activity altitude (barometer), with the elevation history as a fallback. Ascent and distance: today's totals from the watch. Heart rate graph: the last hour from the sensor history. Weather: Garmin weather through the phone; without a phone connection the weather stays empty. Pressure: the sensor history, in hPa. Slope and compass are not on the face: Garmin does not give watch faces access to them. Units follow the watch settings (metres or feet, km or miles, C or F).

Always-on

AMOLED: only the dimmed time, shifted every minute, no filled areas.

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.

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

Unlock

€4.99

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

  1. Install the face from the Connect IQ store. It is free for 7 days.
  2. Find your 10-digit UID: Connect IQ app on the phone > My Device > Watch faces > Summit Climb > 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.

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