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How to put air pressure on your watch face and Tile

BaroGuard can show its last reading without opening the app. These steps set up a Tile and a watch-face complication.

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Step by step

  1. Open BaroGuard once so it has a recent reading to cache.Screen: BaroGuard main screen with live pressure
  2. Long-press your watch face and add the BaroGuard Tile from the Tiles list.Screen: Wear OS Tile picker
  3. Choose a Tile layout: cached pressure, trend context, mini graph or estimated altitude.Screen: BaroGuard Tile layout options
  4. Edit your watch face and pick a complication slot for pressure, trend, delta, gauge or estimated altitude.Screen: Watch face complication editor
  5. Tap the Tile or complication whenever you want live readings; it opens the app.Screen: Watch face with BaroGuard complication
  6. Open the app now and then to refresh the cached value, since the Tile does not monitor in the background.Screen: BaroGuard Tile showing cached pressure

Questions

Who makes BaroGuard?

It is published on Google Play by the developer Quazmoz.

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How accurate are the readings?

They are approximate. Results depend on the watch hardware, calibration, altitude changes, weather and the sensor itself.

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What do I see at the end of a climb session?

Relative altitude, duration, total ascent and descent, maximum climb and descent rates, and a small altitude graph.

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Can a Tile show estimated altitude?

Yes. One of the Tile layouts shows estimated altitude; others show cached pressure, trend context or mini graphs.

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Is there a pressure chart?

Yes. You get a local pressure chart and can compare changes across the supported time windows.

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Can I see whether pressure is rising or falling?

Yes. It shows rising, falling or steady, or says it is still collecting enough data.

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Tracks live atmospheric pressure, estimated altitude, and vertical speed for Wear OS smartwatch users.