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Tactical Solar Zulu

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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 tactical watch face with a solar graph at the top, a big step count, the date on a slanted tag, UTC time in the round window and a day bar with sunrise and sunset.

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On the face

  • Top: solar intensity with a bar graph of the last 6 hours. Watches without a solar panel show heart rate there. You can switch it to heart rate, Body Battery or stress.
  • Big field with a jet icon: steps in thousands by default, or one of 30 data types.
  • Small field next to it: battery days left by default.
  • Date on a slanted tag between two lines, day names in your watch language (also Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Korean, drawn with the watch's own font).
  • Large hour with smaller minutes. Under the date a field that shows the weather by default: icon, temperature and town. Older weather stays on the face, marked with ~.
  • Day bar: night drawn as a checker pattern, a short line shows the time now.
  • Bottom row: sunrise and sunset by default. Both sides can show any other data.
  • ZULU: UTC time (HHMM) in the small round window on solar watches. AMOLED and colour MIP watches draw their own ring in the same place. In the phone settings you can switch the window to another time zone (a fixed offset, from UTC-12 to UTC+14, with half hours).
  • Glucose (CGM) field on watches with enough memory. Not a medical device, no alarms, glucose data goes from the service straight to your watch and never to Dialforge.
  • Settings menu in 35 languages.

Screens

Each screen type is tuned on its own. Black and white solar watches: crisp 1-bit drawing, small text in the watch's own font. AMOLED: white on black with your accent colour and three always-on modes. Colour MIP: colours from the screen's own palette, thicker lines, readable in the sun. 8-colour MIP: pure colours only.

Settings

On AMOLED and colour MIP watches the watch menu has the data fields, the graph, always-on mode (AMOLED), language and time format. On watches with less memory the watch menu has the three main fields. Everything else, and everything on black and white watches, is in the phone app: Watch faces, Tactical Solar Zulu, Settings.

Trial: after 7 days the face shows your Face ID and a QR code. 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.
  • Location (GPS): Uses the watch location for distance, speed or sun and moon times. The location is not sent anywhere.
  • 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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