MRA useless after I missed a route turn
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Hello!
I am still new to MRA and liking it very much. However, I had this experience that I wanted to share:
I set up a new route in MRA desktop. It was a 360-mile route from my home (point A) to a destination in Arkansas (point B). There were no other intervening waypoints. I exported the route to my Garmin XT2 GPS and of course, it was on my Android Smartphone.
Both the GPS and the Android Auto were tracking nicely until...at around 150 miles into the route, I decided to make a slight deviation, a bit of a known short cut...at this point, both the GPS and MRA on the smartphone decided to take me back to the point where I had deviated from the route.
It was easy enough to correct this behavior on the GPS; I simply stopped navigating the route, then re-started navigation and selected the destination point and it recalculated and got me back on track from that point...all was good.
However, I was unable to ever get the MRA app back on track. Part of this may be limitations on the Android Auto interface.
This concerns me because I occasionally do take shortcuts, or miss waypoints, but I would like to keep on going on the route toward my destination.
Is there any way I can set the navigation to stay on a route toward a destination, even if I miss a waypoint or alter the route? I don't want it to persist in navigating back to the waypoint or point at which I may have strayed from the route.
I hope this makes sense and that there may be a solution. Of course, this may be an immutable feature of all GPS custom routes that cannot be changed...I hope not.
Many thanks in advance,
Jim O'Dowd
Franklin, TN, USA -
Hello!
I am still new to MRA and liking it very much. However, I had this experience that I wanted to share:
I set up a new route in MRA desktop. It was a 360-mile route from my home (point A) to a destination in Arkansas (point B). There were no other intervening waypoints. I exported the route to my Garmin XT2 GPS and of course, it was on my Android Smartphone.
Both the GPS and the Android Auto were tracking nicely until...at around 150 miles into the route, I decided to make a slight deviation, a bit of a known short cut...at this point, both the GPS and MRA on the smartphone decided to take me back to the point where I had deviated from the route.
It was easy enough to correct this behavior on the GPS; I simply stopped navigating the route, then re-started navigation and selected the destination point and it recalculated and got me back on track from that point...all was good.
However, I was unable to ever get the MRA app back on track. Part of this may be limitations on the Android Auto interface.
This concerns me because I occasionally do take shortcuts, or miss waypoints, but I would like to keep on going on the route toward my destination.
Is there any way I can set the navigation to stay on a route toward a destination, even if I miss a waypoint or alter the route? I don't want it to persist in navigating back to the waypoint or point at which I may have strayed from the route.
I hope this makes sense and that there may be a solution. Of course, this may be an immutable feature of all GPS custom routes that cannot be changed...I hope not.
Many thanks in advance,
Jim O'Dowd
Franklin, TN, USA@Jim-O-Dowd
Do you not think that the opening sentence of your post could explain the rather unfair title of this topic? -
I have to admit this is a bugbear of mine!
I want to be able to set a destination and the navigation just re route you should you miss a turn without it going back! this is how most sat navs work.
There should be an option of A to B and just take me there without trying to get you back on a route.
I wouldn't call it useless though
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Where to start? You created a 360 mile route with no waypoints other than start and finish! Did you enable recalculations? Were you navigating the route as a track? This sounds like a recipe for disaster. The likelihood that the GPS device and MRA are going to deviate is virtually guaranteed.
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If you just want point to point navigation Google maps or Waze would do your job. I use Google maps for point to point navigation. MRA or your Zumo XT2 for that matter are designed for routes with multiple waypoints to take you on specific roads. I use mostly MRA for that type of navigation and a Zumo XT which is increasingly used as a backup or to handle my custom POI's
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Hello!
I am still new to MRA and liking it very much. However, I had this experience that I wanted to share:
I set up a new route in MRA desktop. It was a 360-mile route from my home (point A) to a destination in Arkansas (point B). There were no other intervening waypoints. I exported the route to my Garmin XT2 GPS and of course, it was on my Android Smartphone.
Both the GPS and the Android Auto were tracking nicely until...at around 150 miles into the route, I decided to make a slight deviation, a bit of a known short cut...at this point, both the GPS and MRA on the smartphone decided to take me back to the point where I had deviated from the route.
It was easy enough to correct this behavior on the GPS; I simply stopped navigating the route, then re-started navigation and selected the destination point and it recalculated and got me back on track from that point...all was good.
However, I was unable to ever get the MRA app back on track. Part of this may be limitations on the Android Auto interface.
This concerns me because I occasionally do take shortcuts, or miss waypoints, but I would like to keep on going on the route toward my destination.
Is there any way I can set the navigation to stay on a route toward a destination, even if I miss a waypoint or alter the route? I don't want it to persist in navigating back to the waypoint or point at which I may have strayed from the route.
I hope this makes sense and that there may be a solution. Of course, this may be an immutable feature of all GPS custom routes that cannot be changed...I hope not.
Many thanks in advance,
Jim O'Dowd
Franklin, TN, USA@Jim-O-Dowd said in MRA useless after I missed a route turn:
Is there any way I can set the navigation to stay on a route toward a destination, even if I miss a waypoint or alter the route?
Yes, you can and the solution is quit simple. For A to B travels (with only start and finish), do NOT make a route. Just enter the address in your XT, hit start and have a lot of fun.
