Dynamic Text from external API?

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Hi! Just started playing with Facer and I love it. I created a simple watch face with text in the background.

My question is: Is there any way to update the text programmatically (say once a day) based on a call to some external API? What I want is to have a Bible “verse of the day” always displayed in the background on my watch face. But I don’t want to manually enter it every day, just want it to update automatically based on a call to an external server which will serve up a new verse every day.

Any ideas would be appreciated!

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Hi and welcome. Is not possible to use an external resource to get data on facer, but you can use the “rand” function to set different text or numbers every x time.

ie.

I think that could help you to get a random verse of the day every time you wake/dim. Then you can play with Hour Tags to get a random text every 24 hours.

I just an idea.

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I’ve been thinking of doing something similar. Only option at the moment is creating individual text elements and do like @riczurdo said. Use some sort of random wake expression to bring up something different each time.

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Thanks @riczurdo and @eradicator09! That worked great. I slightly modified the transparency expression to $(#DdL#%N)==n?100:0$ so now it should select a new background every day.

Here’s the watch face if you’d like to see the result: Facer - Thousands of FREE watch faces for Apple Watch, Samsung Gear S3, Huawei Watch, and more

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Amazing! Happy to help. Just one suggestion, in my opinion, you should send the backgrounds to the back, in order to not to overlap the hands. And I have seen that one of them is not working. Check them. Looks great, congrats.

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Thanks for looking! I moved the hands forward and adjusted their style a bit; I agree that’s much better. Thanks again for your quick replies and advice.

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