Hi again...Please help

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Well my story still hasn't been resolved yet I guess. I use apple car play at my screen of my bike so I have my route app for navigation and I also for backup I use a garmin zumo XT2.
Ill describe my steps and place advice

1. I create a simple route from my home to a cafe using route planner and save it at my routes
2. I export it as a gpx 1.2 file cause I've read that at my device garmin zumo xt2 will be copied without changes
3. GPS recognizes probably the route as a track so it doesn't give me ETA at destination or is it something else. though I navigate right at my garmin no ETA just three dots at the bottom right corner.
4. Now at apple car play my route navigator tries to turn me probably back at each exit of the highway so as to commence the route from the beginning? I find the route at the file I press navigate but instead of guiding me to my destination it says at every exit to follow it. big mystery!!! For your info I checked before activating the route if I have enabled to avoid highways, tolls or ferries.
   Can anyone explain me what to do??
   Summing up
   I have a route/track at gps guiding me right without ETA. first mystery
   I have myrouteapp at carplay and it doesn't navigate me to my one and only end waypoint but tries to maybe return me back at the beginning? I thought that myroute could make a recalculation if you don't start exactly from the initial waypoint.

Please help I'm so confused though I like a lot my route app and im a golden member
cheers

[Guzzist]

@Aggelos-Minoudis ...may be there are a couple of things you need to care about:

• I'm not sure, you strictly have to use gpx V 1.2 file format to transmit to a Garmin XT2. May be gpx V 1.1 is working good enough.
  You also need to know: if you export a route from MRA-Routeplanner as gpx file - this file will contain a route AND a track. If you import this gpx into Garmin XT2, both will be imported. You can disable in XT2 afterwards to display the track. I believe, then you will get the ETA.

• If the Navi is going to route you often back to starting point - this can happen, if your first route point is to close to your current position. If you just switch on your Navi and start driving immediately, it could be the navi did not have enough time, to get enough satellites to calculate the route - and did not notice, you have still reached the first route point. Then it will navigate you always back to the first routepoint, as long as you really have reached it.
  It's recommended to place the first route point some 100m away from yor home or hotel (current position) along the planned route down.

• About Android Auto / Carplay I can't support you, because I don't use such a device (I don't like it).

[Brian Sprott]

When you place your first marker put it about 200 meters on the road you will follow.
Also if you stop you can hold your finger on the next waypoint and it will take you to that waypoint. If using Carplay device you can use the waypoint marker on the right of the screen to skip waypoints to ensure it does not re route you back

Just to add. When creating your route ensure your marker is on the correct side of any dual carriageway or motorway. Otherwise it will not recognise you have passed it.

[Aggelos Minoudis]

Ok guys than I ll try impose your proposals and see what comes next

[John S Parry]

@Aggelos-Minoudis said:

GPS recognizes probably the route as a track so it doesn't give me ETA at destination or is it something else. though I navigate right at my garmin no ETA just three dots at the bottom right corner.

It should appear as a route. If it doesn't, something else is going on.