Description
Every cyclist and runner knows the feeling of a heavy day without knowing it is an 8 m/s headwind. Vind puts an arrow on it.
Vind is a data field, not a separate app: add it to a data screen in any of your activities, and it shows what the device cannot measure itself.
RELATIVE WIND
• The arrow points the way the wind pushes you, drawn against your current heading, so a glance tells you whether the wind is with you
• Green within 45 degrees from behind, red within 45 degrees from the front, grey across you
• Wind speed is the largest number on the field, with gusts in brackets, in m/s, km/h, knots or Beaufort
• Standing still there is no heading, so the field shows the compass direction the wind comes from, in grey, never a stale arrow
RAIN, THE NEXT 90 MINUTES
• A row of blocks, one per 10 minutes, where the height is the intensity
• Five-minute radar nowcast where MET Norway's radar reaches: Norway, Sweden, Finland and the far east of Denmark. Elsewhere, most of Denmark included, the hourly forecast, so a brief shower can be missed
• Gusts are not published everywhere; where missing, the brackets are left out
FEELS-LIKE AND SUNSET
• Feels-like temperature, so you can judge the layer you are wearing
• A countdown to sunset that turns red when your estimated time home is longer than the daylight you have left. How home is estimated is a setting
• Without an average speed to work from, it stays neutral rather than guessing
TIDE WORKS IN FIVE PLACES, NOT EVERYWHERE
Please read this before you buy.
• The tide line needs a tide station within 50 km of you. In practice that means Norway, Denmark, Greenland, the Faroe Islands and the United States
• Anywhere else, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom included, there is no tide line. The field leaves the row out rather than showing a guess
• Where it works, it shows time to the next high or low water and whether the water is rising or falling
• Wind, rain, feels-like and sunset work anywhere on earth. Only the tide row is limited
ONE-TIME PURCHASE, NO SUBSCRIPTION
Behind the field runs a small weather server that fetches and caches forecasts and tide tables for you. It has a monthly cost, and the one-time price is set to cover it.
WHAT IT NEEDS
• Your phone in range with the Garmin Connect app running, plus a GPS fix: the device has no connection, and the field must know which area to ask about
• Refreshed within minutes of starting a recording and every 15 minutes while it runs; almost never otherwise, to save battery and data. Before the first fetch it says WAITING FOR DATA; past 30 minutes it shows the age; past two hours, NO DATA (2h+)
• Wind, gusts, wind angle and feels-like are saved to the activity as graphs and summary fields, never while data is missing or too old
RIDING WITH A GARMIN EDGE?
Vind Ride is the edition made for bike computers. It shows the wind relative to the direction you ride, rain for the next 90 minutes and a wind chill that counts your own speed. Try it free for 7 days.
Find it in the Connect IQ Store: apps.garmin.com/apps/d060b3a6-f74e-4828-8fe7-b52cea58b360
Vind builds on open data, and the licences require credit:
• Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0)
• Tidal data from the Norwegian Mapping Authority / Kartverket (CC BY 4.0)
• Tidal data from the Danish Meteorological Institute (CC BY 4.0)
• Tidal data for the United States from NOAA CO-OPS
• Sunrise and sunset are calculated on our server with the NOAA General Solar Position Calculations
CC BY 4.0 licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Privacy: your position leaves the device only as a 5-character geohash, roughly 5 km across. No exact coordinates and no account. Privacy policy: api.offoverdrive.com/privacy
What is new
• Light rain now shows in the rain row, and the blocks reach full height at heavy rain
• Faster first reading when you start a recording, and fewer background updates to save battery and data
• More stable: errors show as text instead of crashing
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Supported language (1)
Compatible devices (83)
D2™ Air X15
D2™ Mach 1 Pro
Edge® 1040
Edge® 1040
Edge® 1050
Edge® 540
Edge® 550
Edge® 840
Edge® 850
Edge® Explore 2
Edge® MTB
Enduro™ 2
Enduro™ 3
Enduro™ 4
epix™ (Gen 2)
epix™ (Gen 2)
epix™ Pro (42mm)
epix™ Pro (47mm)
epix™ Pro (51mm)
fēnix® 7
fēnix® 7
fēnix® 7 Pro
fēnix® 7 Pro – Solar Edition (No Wi-Fi®)
fēnix® 7S
fēnix® 7S
fēnix® 7S Pro
fēnix® 7X
fēnix® 7X
fēnix® 7X Pro
fēnix® 7X Pro No Wi-Fi
fēnix® 8 AMOLED (43mm)
fēnix® 8 AMOLED (47mm/51mm)
fēnix® 8 Pro
fēnix® 8 Solar (47mm)
fēnix® 8 Solar (51mm)
fenix® 9 - 43 mm
fenix® 9 – 47 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - 43 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - 47 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - 51 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - Solar 47 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - Solar 51 mm
fēnix® E
Forerunner® 165
Forerunner® 165 Music
Forerunner® 170
Forerunner® 170 Music
Forerunner® 255
Forerunner® 255 Music
Forerunner® 255S
Forerunner® 255S Music
Forerunner® 265
Forerunner® 265S
Forerunner® 570 - 42mm
Forerunner® 570 - 47mm
Forerunner® 70
Forerunner® 70
Forerunner® 955 Dual Power
Forerunner® 965
Forerunner® 970
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2S
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2S
tactix® 7
tactix® 7 – AMOLED Edition
tactix® 8 – 47 mm, AMOLED
tactix® 8 – 51 mm, Solar
Venu® 2
Venu® 2
Venu® 2 Plus
Venu® 2 Plus
Venu® 2S
Venu® 2S
Venu® 3
Venu® 3S
Venu® 4 – 41 mm
Venu® 4 – 45 mm
Venu® Sq. 2
Venu® Sq. 2 Music
Venu® X1
vívoactive® 5
vívoactive® 6