Innovative Motorcycle / Cycle UI

[Jure Sirena 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in Innovative Motorcycle / Cycle UI:

Personally on all my tours, I don't care about voice prompts or even instructions. I just want to see the map with a line

During my 2022 UK tour, I navigated all the way with the Mobile app "follow the line" navigation. In 2017, when MRA Navigation was still developed, I even did another UK tour completely with the old Mobile app

Voice prompts are distracting from conversations with my significant other / pillion or the music I'm listening to. Instructions are rather pointless as there really only is one suitable road in the routes I tend to make. And well...driving a wrong road is only more adventure!

That said: these functionalities do need to function perfectly in our app and when driving somewhere I don't know the way or around busy roads it is a vital function of the app.

Just felt like sharing my own personaal opinion on this matter. Not speaking as the developer here

Same fore me visual only + prompt for radars only. Many devices and apps have this setting now seperated - guidance volume and alert volume

[Con Hennekens]

@Tim-Thompson said in Innovative Motorcycle / Cycle UI:

I'm much less skeptical about that possibility than when I first started looking at the device.

That's great. I can understand the wish to minimalize tech on a bike. However I am riding a lot in Belgium Ardennes and German Eifel area (since for me that is as mountainesque as it get's within an hour or 2 ), and I see SO MANY Y junctions where it is unclear if a road is considered straight-on or keep left or right. NOT seeing a map with the actual situation would create SO MUCH uncertainty that I'd rather navigate A2B to destination instead of endlessly trying to follow a predetermined route.

How did we managed before we had all this tech?

That's simple: I didn't. I tried a roadbook once and ever since I consider that a form of harakiri. Before the satnav era we drove without a predetermined route, or routes that were signed with shields. Nowadays people get frantic over little route differences between the Here and the TomTom maps. That was unheard back then.

[Con Hennekens]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in Innovative Motorcycle / Cycle UI:

Voice prompts are distracting from conversations with my significant other / pillion

I am lucky enough for my better half to have her own bike, and NO comm set...
(however the BarButton is yelling for a P2T option! Want to look for a decent app for that)

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Con-Hennekens Does she have no comm set, or did you turn it off / not inform her about it?

[Con Hennekens]

@Corjan-Meijerink, no, we don't have comm sets. She does not even have a headset in her helmet. So we have no problems, like you do
But when I ride with my friend, he does have a headset too (no comm). So a Push-to-Talk app could fill in that incidental wish to say something. My thoughts are wandering off: it might be a nice feature to integrate with the group-ride feature that is being worked on...?

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Con-Hennekens group ride is a feature we wish to implement but is very complex so it's not scheduled yet

[Con Hennekens]

@Corjan-Meijerink, I know, just a thought

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@Tim-Thompson said in Innovative Motorcycle / Cycle UI:

'm not sure what you meant for the ADV/offroad application. Are you talking about using a phone to produce a HUD on the ADV windscreen?

Literally talking about the feature proposed. HUD would be applicable for only in the car.

@Tim-Thompson said in Innovative Motorcycle / Cycle UI:

I might be skeptical about using a phone offroad on a ADV.

Been doing it that way for 7 years. Get a rugged Android device and toss it on the bike. I use the Carpe Iter tablet though these days.

[Peter Verweij]

@Drabslab
@Jabp
I also an advanced Tripy user and use the Tripy for trips and events with the oldtimer club. The roadbooks, the Tripy can make are great.
The idea from @Jabp is just marvelous. Option for "no map" and the possibility to print a roadbook would be great. Hopfully they put it some where on the roadmap of Next Navigation app.