Acoustic Info to MRA and CarPlay wishes

Peter Schiefer

Yesterday I made the first longer test trip with MRA on my iPhone and with CarPlay on Ford Sync 4.
First Concern:
Accoustic route advices.
Our trip starts near Cologne and ends in Waldenburg near Kupferzell close to the A6. I set some shaping points the Drop icon and fix waypoints the hand icon for test.
the plannes routes was the A3 towards Frankfurt than A67 towards Hockenheim and from Waldorf on the A 6 to the final target.
At Cross Wiesbaden the Navi told me to use the left lanes to F. At Mönchhofdreieck the right Lane to E35 Rüdesheim. But the signs on the highway did not sign E35 either Rüdesheim. Rüsselsheim Stuttgart and Basel is noticed and the German Number 67 not Europaroute E35. This could confuse the driver.
But tan on the A 67 there are 2 times junctions where you must change to the left lanes at Darmstadt and Viernheim and no hints by MRA beside the map marking follow straight on.
The same at cross Walldorf an important cross. On higher frequent traffic (not yesterday) the right lane jams very early for all traffic which want the change to the A5 towards Basel so an info use laft lanes to Heilbronn Nürnberg will help.

Next thing. No acoustic hints for fix waypoints (hand icon) in between, only the final target will be annonced.
If i want to make a stop for lunch or whatever on hand 3 of maybee 6 a need an acoustic notice not the number of the point.
On the phone you can see the actual rest distance to next „hand“ permanent but not on the CarPlay screen. it is only visible when you are close to it on the map /route. Bring this info the the CarPlay screen too.
On my Garmin I can select a Route Info screen with the distance to next waypoint and the waypoint is in the acoustic Info as „in 2 km erreichen Sie erreichen ihr Ziel name…. counting down 3 times.

Theo Lammerts

@Peter-Schiefer User combines MRA with Carplay in Skoda Karoq with Amundsen Information system.
Encountered Carplay freezing issue, sometimes resolved by restarting the car, but not always.
Recent long trips without issues.
Current process:

Plan route with waypoints using WIFI at home/hotel on iPad, phone, or PC.
Start route with WIFI connection on iPhone 8.
Open and download route on the phone.
Connect phone to car.
Start car, wait for Carplay connection.
Open route, choose NAVIGATE, select TRACK (previously used ROUTE).
During stops, take phone out, end the route. When continuing, repeat steps 4 and 5. Navigation asks to resume route, answer YES.
Deliberately took a different route, navigation recalculates and provides directions to the next waypoint/destination.
Can listen to radio or Spotify without Carplay freezes.

Corjan Meijerink

We are currently working on a massive CarPlay / Android Auto update to improve stability and general usage.

Bear in mind that complex visual information such as displaying the upcoming waypoint number in CarPlay might not be possible to certain restrictions of the ecosystem Within the app we are free to do whatever we want, in CarPlay / Android Auto certain restrictions apply.