Upgrading from Zumo XT to XT2

[Thomas Neumeyer]

Hello, I am using Tread but I do not sync the routes. I just connect it to the PC and transfer the GPX to the SD card. Weather radar works and traffic information. All good. And the route planner on the Garmin is not too bad either. When I plan my trips/routes I use the planner of MyRoute on the computer. Save it and drive. I anyway spend time to generate the routes and after they are ready they will be pushed to the XT3. I do not let the Tread app sync because there can be surprises but I do not need to do this often. And in case I have no option to transfer data I use the Garmin route planner.

[Glenn.B]

Hello all. I'm new here and I'm following this thread with great interest.
A little background - I have been using Garmin devices on boats, cars and motorcycles for decades. I've been using Basecamp, and Mapsource before it, for route planning since its inception. As outdated and antiquated as it is, I'm very comfortable and rather proficient with it. Until a week or so ago, I was quite happy working this way and uploading my routes to my Zumo XT. Unfortunately, the Zumo died two weeks ago and I find myself in a country that neither sells nor repairs Garmin Zumo products.

Now I am searching for an alternative and MRA was at the top of the list. Over the years I have used various phones with Google maps and had all the attendant problems, the most recent being on a rental bike last week where my Pixel overheated. Ruling out mounting a phone on the bars, I have purchased a generic Chinese Android Auto display for the bike. While waiting for a connector to arrive to install it, I have been trying out MRA Navigate using AA in my car. Creating routes in MRA, or even importing my Basecamp GPX files, works fine. The big problem I encountered today, which was a big problem years ago when tried using Google Maps, is that the AA UI is a functional subset of the phone app. In particular I could not find a way to skip a waypoint while on the road in a multi-point trip without stopping and going back to the phone app. This is a non-starter for me, since I do lots of multi-day, multi-point trips and have one coming up here in a couple of weeks. Am I missing something or is this feature simply lacking, or perhaps different implementations of AA expose different functionality? This is a rather urgent question for me, since as I said I have a big bike trip coming up in a few weeks and on-bike navigation will be essential.

Any advice or suggestions would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

the skip waypoint apears when you hit the 3 strips down right

[Glenn.B]

The 3 dots appear on the lower, right corner on the phone app, but it does not appear on the Android Auto screen. From the phone screen I can get to the menu with the skip next waypoint, just not from the AA display.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Glenn.B als je een route actief hebt, Klik dan op het scherm en dan zie je onderaan rechts

Klik dan op het route punt symbool en dan verschijnt links boven

Have fun

[MTC-Zeilberg]

@Don-Stauffer

Buy an XT3, It is much faster then the XT2 and works Well with MRA routes and you can keep your phone in your pocket

[Marinus van Deudekom]

Sorry the wrong langues
First picture, tap somewhere on the screen and you'll see on the bottom right
Second picture
Click on the waypoint symbool and then you'll see in the top left corner

[Glenn.B]

Thanks! I will try try that again in the morning.

[Mzokk]

I use the app with My Honda Africa Twin Adventure Sports AA screen. Skipping is easy using this button (via the handlebar switches)

You can select your starting waypoint from here.

[Glenn.B]

I tried this again today. Clicking on the screen, I did in fact get the additional menu with the "skip waypoint" icon and that worked correctly. However, it did not always work. Sometimes when a click the screen I get additional menu items, but not the "skip waypoint" item. It seemed that the "skip waypoint" item only appeared when I got close the the waypoint which would be skipped. Here is the alternate screen I get when I don't get that item.

[Con Hennekens]

@Glenn.B, are you showing a route with only 2 route points by any chance?
There is not much to skip to if it is.

[Glenn.B]

No, there were 3 additional Waypoints plus the destination. When I got close to the next waypoint, the menu with "Skip" reappered, but then never again on that route.