New Beta! (v4.0.3) Motorhome & Motorcycle

[Nick Carthew]

@Lynchy67 If you answer yes, Google will then require further information - shoe size, favourite colour, what you had for breakfast etc etc

[Lynchy67]

@Nick-Carthew

Thanks for the clarification Nick.
Just wanted to be sure.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lynchy67 yeah, enable it!
But did you have issues before? I only expect people that had the annoying popup about Google before to see this prompt.

[Lynchy67]

@Corjan-Meijerink

No I never had this issue before with any previous updates.
It appeared with v4.0.3

I also have an iOS Next account, so considering getting an iPhone.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lynchy67 thanks! You should have at some point then also seen a notification that the Google services were disabled.

However, I will make some tweaks based on your response As you did not have the issue before, your Google services should not have been disabled.

[richtea999]

@Lynchy67 said in New Beta! (v4.0.3) Motorhome & Motorcycle:

@Corjan-Meijerink

With this 4.0.3 update I am now getting the following screen regarding Google?
I am aware others had this in the previous version.

Should I ignore it and select No?
Previously my location has been very accurate on Android.

Normally you'll see that if 'Google Location Accuracy' is off (found in the Location -> Location services settings of Android).

When disabled, it used to lock you out of the app. Not any more - so that's a great improvement.

If you don't want to see it, then press 'Yes' and it will lead you to enable the Google Location Accuracy.

[richtea999]

@Corjan-Meijerink

However, for Corjan's benefit, although it's no longer locking you out, the app-based popup (rather than Google's) does continue to nag you:

• on restarting a route
• on stopping a route
• cancelling a selected route (i.e. not pressing 'Start')
• tapping anywhere in the default map with no route selected yet

It would be nice to remember the users choice, either once per app startup, or even in an app setting somewhere so the nag isn't repeated quite so often.

But there are more important things to work on. Just bringing it to your attention.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@richtea999 thanks for calling it a great improvement!
Happy you tested it.

I assume there is an issue with the Google location services if the app doesn’t know where you are after 5 seconds. I guess Steve had bad reception when first opening the update and this assumption was then therefore wrong.

For the release I’ll either increase this duration and research more if I can actually tell if the services were disabled

[Con Hennekens]

@Corjan-Meijerink, I am thinking it has to do with how far you are from routable roads. I had this "problem" too on vacation, on the camping site. Now I am at home, and close to my street, the problem seems to be gone. I am thinking the API assumes not enough accuracy if not near a routable road, and tries to improve it with a less accurate method of location (scanning wifi...)

[Arno 0]

@Arno-0 said in New Beta! (v4.0.3) Motorhome & Motorcycle:

If you turn off the use of toll roads while in camper transport mode, it also turns off the use of highways. This is only in camper transport mode and not in car or motorcycle transport mode.
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Can someone please reply on this comment. This was also mentioned in another topic but als no reply there. I think this is a fault and can maybe be solved before the official release.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Arno-0 thanks! I believe the app does it correctly, might be something with HERE! I’ll check next week

[Arno 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink Thanks that you will check. The problem is in the app.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Arno-0 I’ll let you know

[Arno 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink I’ve just checked and it’s a problem in both the MRA Next app and in the MRA Routeplanner. Thanks for letting me know

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Arno-0 that is interesting info! Then it will most likely be an issue with HERE as our app and website are very different implementations of HERE

[Rolf Engelsman]

@Corjan-Meijerink bedankt voor je reply. Ik heb dit gemeld via jouw linkje.

[Nick Carthew]

The thinner yellow track line is a great improvement. The blue route line is visible when travelling along a previously used road. Thanks @Corjan-Meijerink

[Corjan Meijerink]

A quick statement about the app ignoring highways while using the camper mode and you are avoiding tolls only.

I've reached out to HERE and got the following response:

Thank you for reaching out to us.
After having ran a quick check with our refClient, I'm also a bit surprised about the behavior and cannot imagine that this is really working as expected.
I will create an internal case with our Routing Team and address this issue to them.
Once I have news, I'll let you know.

TLDR; The issue is with HERE and will hopefully be resolved very quickly!

@Arno-0 thanks for reporting!

[GT JWR]

@Doug-Robinson completely agree. 300m at 60 kph (stated in a comment above) may be enough, however, not at 100 kph or more.
Knowing the distance each click of the zoom (in or out) is, would be helpful knowledge as well.

[Edgar Hofer]

Hey Leute
Ich bin gerade auf einer Motorradreise durch Südfrankreich und habe leider, einen Tag vor der Abreise, auf die Version 4.0.3 ein Update gemacht.
Leider musste ich feststellen, dass die NEUE Art der Wegpunktdarstellung für mich absolut keinen Sinn macht. Beispiel: Zufahrt zu einem Straßenpass. Ich setze einen Wegpunkt mit dem Namen des Straßenpass. Ab der letzten, möglichen Abzweigung war es mir wichtig, laufend die Entfernung und den Namen des Wegpunktes auf dem Display zu haben. Eine Anweisung, für eine Abzweigung, die mitunter mehrere Kilometer hinter dem Wegpunkt stattfindet, ist noch völlig unwichtig.
Bei CarPlay habe ich feststellen müssen, dass es überhaupt keine Informationen mehr zu Wegpunkten gibt.
Also für mich ist es ganz wichtig, dass bei der nächsten Version die ALTE Wegpunktdarstellung als Option wieder verfügbar ist.
Da ich mit der Version 4.0.3 überhaupt nicht klargekommen bin, habe ich gestern ein downgrade auf die Version 4.0.2 gemacht und fahre mit dieser Version den Urlaub weiter.