automatic tracklog

[M. Schrijver]

Because of the winterseason it has been a while i used MRA.
Last season i've noticed a few times that the tracklog did not start when selecting a route direct in Android Auto.

When start a route on the phone and then connect to Android Auto. The tracklog works fine.

BTW
I'm talking about preplanned routes, not A to B

[Corjan Meijerink]

@M-Schrijver thanks, I had a support ticket about this a while ago. Should all be working as intended. If not, let me know.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Adrian-Avram Yes! We tend to keep CarPlay and Android Auto in sync.
I just don't feel like constantly mentioning both

[Nomko Nomden]

@Con-Hennekens said in automatic tracklog:

@Ralf-Zimmerningkat, why would a plain A2B route be interesting enough to track?

Sometimes i just go out for a ride (not even a planned route or a simple A-to-B roite, jujst riding) and find myself ending up on a stretch of road which looks very interesting but can't exactly remember were it was afterwards. So tracklogging a route would be very helpful to find it back!

I had a try this korning when i drove to my work and automatic tracklog will not start by just a plain A to B route.

And what's the big deal not having it tracked automaticaaly? It's just 1 push on a button to have tracklogging working...

[Léon Hassing]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in automatic tracklog:

@M-Schrijver thanks, I had a support ticket about this a while ago. Should all be working as intended. If not, let me know.

I have a support ticket still open for this. When I start the route the tracking will only start when you start the route on your phone. Not when you open it on AA. When you have a stop and resume your route, you again have to open the app first before the tracking resumes. Also when you, during the stop, didn't pause the app on your phone.

[Con Hennekens]

@Nomko-Nomden said in automatic tracklog:

And what's the big deal not having it tracked automaticaaly? It's just 1 push on a button to have tracklogging working...

And what's the big deal having it tracked manually. It's just one push of a button...
Most people use A2B for driving... uhm... A2B. It's irritating having to throw away a recorded track each time.

EDIT:
By the way, are you aware that you can also manually start tracking without an active route?

[Nomko Nomden]

@Con-Hennekens I'm aware of that all!

As I already mentioned, I use tracking more to trace back where I have been and where all those beautiful roads can be found so that I can later put it all back into 1 big route.

[Con Hennekens]

@Nomko-Nomden, That I certainly can understand.

[KeesV]

@Léon-Hassing and @Corjan-Meijerink
Today I did a test with track navigation with MRA version 4.3.7 via CarPlay. No automatic tracklog was started.

[Con Hennekens]

@KeesV, in the app-menu: "Navigation settings - Functional - Start tracklog automatically" needs te be enabled. After that, tracking of routes and tracks should be started automatically. For straight A to B routes, tracklog will not be started automatically, because those are considered not scenic and therefore not interesting enough for tracking.

[Corjan Meijerink]

I can confirm that there seems to be an issue when running the app completely without ever starting the app.

We will be fixing this issue. However, there currently is a more pressing issue