Hello all,
I've had the planner and Nav app for about 2 years now I guess. It's been a heck of a learning experience for sure. Just got back from a two week vacation riding up to South Dakota, Wyoming from Texas and had some mixed results. Some of it may just be me, but I put a lot of hours into using the planner app along with google maps to compare gas stations, hotels, etc. Forget the whole load the MRA Planner gpx file into the Harley GPS system because it will continuously try to reroute me, not MRA's fault but I thought I could use that as a back up, that just turns out to be a nightmare.
On my trip I found for plotting from Dallas to Kolby KS then to Spearfish SD next day. I don't have the specifics in front of me now but MRA showed one day using the same exact route like 2 hours longer than Google Maps, for the same exact route, I thought that very odd.
Anyway, I used my routes a couple days and ran into some issues, I have a 2020 Harley Road Glide Limited, which does have Android Auto, which I connect to with a cable to my phone. As we were on day 3 with some very specific roads I wanted to be on, NAV was rerouting me different than the Nav my girlfriend was using on her phone, which was the maps I created on MRA Planner and shared with her. The only thing I could conclude was I had MRA Nav running but plugged into my bike with Android Auto, I think Waze is the closest app running and trying to recognize it on the bike, and it was over riding possibly my NAV app and trying to send me the quickest route. It was a disaster. That night I had to uninstall Waze off my phone to see if that would help.
The next day I had a few times where going down the road, I would back out of MRA Nav to my gopro software to start recording video, then come back into NAV, and next thing I know it's telling me to do a U turn at the next stop and basically send me back to waypoint 1. I've run this software long enough now to know that something isn't right and then I go into skip waypoints from 1 to where I currently am like wp28.
Maybe it's just me, but I honestly feel like I almost need to go back to just writing down the turns on notecards because every time I put a trip together I struggled bad with this app. I gotta put like 50 waypoints down just to keep it on the exact road I want on a long trip otherwise it wants to send me some dirt road to get to the next section I called out for. Going out of the app to Sirius XM to set up some music, I come back, it's rerouting me to waypoint 1, I even selected the skip waypoints automatically beta section to see if that would help. Nope.
I thought well maybe if they integrate Android Auto into this app that would resolve some issues, but doesn't look like that is happening anytime soon with car play still being worked on.
Like I say, I want to love this app, but I put in several weeks of hours of plotting these roads and trips to find one trip after another I am leading people into U turns, dirt roads or some other embarrassing situation. Part of it may be I don't do these trips or use this every single day, but damnit it really shouldn't be this difficult or frustrating to ride a selected route, and at the end of the day have to have my gf looking at a paper map telling me no, do not turn here, even though NAV says turn, stay on this road.
