No spoken announcements or speed warnings.

[Nick Carthew]

I’ll start by saying that this is the first time that I have not had any spoken announcements or warnings, I’ve mentioned before that the announcements have been quiet but never total silence.

So, today was a test day for me.
I wanted to test a few functions that I don’t normally use and test some features that others have had problems with.
I had planned a short route using MRA Mobile app, normally I plan all of my routes on the PC.
Test 1 complete, creating routes using the mobile app is incredibly easy, even for someone like me with worn out eyes and sausages for fingers.
I had selected the new option in the navigation settings to automatically save the route for offline use, I’ll tell you now that this worked perfectly.

So with the route planned I attached my phone to my bike using a Quadlock mount.
I am using an iPhone 11 plugged into a 2.1 amp USB socket via the via the 12 volt Hella outlet on my Triumph Tiger XRT.

I switched on tracking and had no other apps open and started the ride.
I noticed straight away that there were no announcements, more about that later.

I wanted to test the charge capability of my setup as so many others had said that they were having problems with significant battery drain. I have used MRA Next countless times and have never noticed a battery problem, but I thought that I would become a scientist for the day and do a real life test.
My phone battery was at 20% when I left, I made a short stop for coffee after 50 minutes and checked my phone’s battery, it had gone up to 64% with no significant heat detected. 40 minutes later and I was back home with the battery now charged to 84% and again, no significant heat. The ambient temperature according to my Tiger was 22°c.
So my conclusion, which I know that our resident tech gurus already know is; not all phones are affected with significant battery drain.

Now for my other findings:
After a few miles I pulled over to see why I was not getting spoken announcements. My phone and helmet were definitely connected via Bluetooth and the MRA audio settings were correct.
I clicked the stop navigation button and then chose to resume which worked very well. I continued my journey but still in silence. At my coffee stop I turned off my Cardo Packtalk headset hoping that would make a difference but sadly it didn’t. I did take a photo within the app while tracking was paused and again that function worked perfectly.
In the process of writing this I realise that the only thing I didn’t do was reload the route, maybe that would have kickstarted the spoken announcements.
I am assuming that the silence that I encountered is a glitch, and probably, next time I use the app all will be well. But a glitch is a glitch and should be reported so that’s my job done.
I’ll follow up with my next ride report tomorrow.

Edit: I encountered no significant lag in either the track or position markers. A little jumpy in places but not significant.

[MarcM]

@Nick-Carthew No spoken announcements, It's a known issue, @Corjan-Meijerink will work on it, he promissed

[Bart De Medts]

@Nick-Carthew I also have an iphone 11 and no battery loss or phone heating either.

[Stefan Hummelink]

@Bart-DM said in No spoken announcements or speed warnings.:

@Nick-Carthew I also have an iphone 11 and no battery loss or phone heating either.

Then we shall all transfer to the iPhone 11 then! Just kidding.

Good thing to know about all these device dependent issues.

[Bart De Medts]

@StefanHummelink I am selling mine for 3000€

[Con Hennekens]

@StefanHummelink said in No spoken announcements or speed warnings.:

Then we shall all transfer to the iPhone 11 then!

NO WAY!!!

[Stefan Hummelink]

@Con-Hennekens said in No spoken announcements or speed warnings.:

@StefanHummelink said in No spoken announcements or speed warnings.:

Then we shall all transfer to the iPhone 11 then!

NO WAY!!!

Don't be mistaken... I'd rather navigate using a paper map on a roller as was done 50 years ago, than using a iOS device. True fAndroid here.

[Nick Carthew]

@StefanHummelink I compare IOS to TomTom devices they just work without any complications, unlike Android and Garmin. The amount of topics in this forum referencing Android and Garmin is testament to that.

[Stefan Hummelink]

@Nick-Carthew I think it's better we do not start that kind of conversation here muhahahahaha.

[Lynchy67]

@Nick-Carthew
That may be true with regard to the physical devices but I would offer that thanks to the fantastic developers at MRA, the playing field is now completely even for iOS and Android if using the Beta Apps.
Big up the Devs Whoop Whoop!

[Nick Carthew]

@StefanHummelink said in No spoken announcements or speed warnings.:

@Nick-Carthew I think it's better we do not start that kind of conversation here muhahahahaha.

agreed

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Lynchy67

[Corjan Meijerink]

@Nick-Carthew Thanks for the test report We are working on audio stability & configuration at this moment!