New Beta! (v4.0.4)

[Nick Carthew]

@Corjan-Meijerink Understood. So delete previous downloaded version and re-download the edited version for use off-line.

[Lynchy67]

@Con-Hennekens

Of course you can ask!
For a long time I had iPhones and only a single iOS MRA Account.
Then I simply got fed up and bored with iOS and decided to try an android phone.
First i bought a second hand S10 5G and more recently upgraded to a second hand Samsung S21+
I will never buy a brand new phone again!
Yes I have paid twice for the full MRA Navigation experience.
For me its a navigation device first and secondly a phone that I rarely use to make calls.

Also I have an 9" iPad and a 12" iPad Pro so in theory I can test iOS as well.
Maybe one day iOS will wooh me back into their fold!

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Nick-Carthew no need to delete, new download will replace the old one

[Dave J 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

You can now select an amount between 1 and 4 voice prompts per instruction.
The lower the number, the less instructions you receive

How is the spacing of the voice prompts determined if you select a lower number? I have chosen '2' but I seem to be only receiving one very late announcement.

At motorway speeds, this announcement is also very late. Furthermore with the times I do receive the first announcement of the 2, this tends to be just, "continue on the route.......". I had thought that I may get an initial 0.5mile out warning and then one before I need to turn. Grateful if you could clarify how the variable announcements are determined with distance and moreover, speed.

I will do some more testing with a more complicated route and not just an A to B. Good work.

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Dave-J-0 thanks! Ofcourse I can elaborate
1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now)
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km)
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m)
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km)

Each number includes the preceding numbers so to say
The first is the only one guaranteed to exist.

[Dave J 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink ok. That makes sense. For me, I would prefer if the number 2 was number 4 and then 3 and 4 became 2 and 3 repaectively. Useful to know what others think and will go with the flow. . Btw, the grey screen problem on resume does seem to be cured despite my best efforts to break it. Great job.

[Drabslab]

@Corjan-Meijerink said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

thanks! Ofcourse I can elaborate
1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now)
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km)
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m)
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km)
Each number includes the preceding numbers so to say
The first is the only one guaranteed to exist

Wow, this is difficult to decide on when starting to think about it.

I would probably want to turn it around:

1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now), I always want to hear
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m), I always want to hear as it is useful at any speed and any road
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km) i want to hear sometimes depending whether I go fast or not
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km) I maybe don't need as I am never racing and will already have forgotten the instruction by the time I get to the turning point.

[Dave J 0]

@Corjan-Meijerink yes. This works a treat. Brilliant.

[Marinus van Deudekom]

@Corjan-Meijerink thnkx 4 a great job done
May the testing begin

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Drabslab @Dave-J-0 Thanks for the feedback! This is exactly what the Beta is for. More than happy to change it if that’s preferred

[Stefan Hummelink]

@Drabslab said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

@Corjan-Meijerink said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

thanks! Ofcourse I can elaborate
1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now)
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km)
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m)
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km)
Each number includes the preceding numbers so to say
The first is the only one guaranteed to exist

Wow, this is difficult to decide on when starting to think about it.

I would probably want to turn it around:

1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now), I always want to hear
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m), I always want to hear as it is useful at any speed and any road
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km) i want to hear sometimes depending whether I go fast or not
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km) I maybe don't need as I am never racing and will already have forgotten the instruction by the time I get to the turning point.

+1 !

[Skellum]

@StefanHummelink said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

@Drabslab said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

@Corjan-Meijerink said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

thanks! Ofcourse I can elaborate
1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now)
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km)
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m)
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km)
Each number includes the preceding numbers so to say
The first is the only one guaranteed to exist

Wow, this is difficult to decide on when starting to think about it.

I would probably want to turn it around:

1: The actual action (eg. Turn left now), I always want to hear
3: Distance reminder (eg. Turn left in 500m), I always want to hear as it is useful at any speed and any road
4: General reminder (eg. Turn left in 2km) i want to hear sometimes depending whether I go fast or not
2: Furthest possible notification (eg. Turn left in 5km) I maybe don't need as I am never racing and will already have forgotten the instruction by the time I get to the turning point.

+1 !
and me! and well done again Corjan

[Lynchy67]

@Dave-J-0

Same here, I spent 30 minutes on a bus loading routes with not a single grey screen in sight.

@Corjan-Meijerink

[richtea999]

@Corjan-Meijerink I have to admit I assumed the extra prompts would push them further out. The order surprised me (and no-one could guess it, I reckon!)

I had already set mine to 2 expecting the 500m and 'Now' prompts. I'm glad you explained it, but I recommend the options extend in distance with increasing number, since that's more logical - and you won't have to keep explaining it.

Then people who navigate by mostly audio will probably pick option 3 or 4.
And those who navigate mostly by the map will probably pick 1 or 2 (me) - or switch the audio off.

I've now gone back to 3. That is, until you change it.

[Inge Bakermans]

@Corjan-Meijerink I am loving this update especially the lane and audio (reading the added info)

[Hans van de Ven MR.MRA]

@Corjan-Meijerink

Gread work Team

[Dave J 0]

@richtea999 totally agree with you. I was curious when I tried the new version which is why I asked the question. I hope it will be changed to what people are saying here as I had assumed the same.

[cvlmtg]

@Corjan-Meijerink any update on offline usage? are you planning on improving at least the route downloads?

[Dave J 0]

@cvlmtg said in New Beta! (v4.0.4):

are you planning on improving at least the route downloads?

Curious. What do you mean by this?

[cvlmtg]

@Dave-J-0 currently if you want to download your routes, so you can use them with no internet connection, you have to download them one by one, and to see which one are downloaded you have to go to a completely different section of the app. This is one of the main reasons I'm still using mapy instead of myroute-app.