automatic tracklog

Ralf Zimmerningkat · 4 Mar 2025, 10:10

I have set "automatically start tracklog" under the navigation settings. However, when using Apple CarPlay, nothing is logged during navigation, and nothing is saved when stopping. Why can't it be set so that the track is automatically logged every time the app is used in CarPlay?

regards
Ralf

Corjan Meijerink · 4 Mar 2025, 11:26

@Ralf-Zimmerningkat The tracklog is only started for scenic or created routes. Not for A to B navigation.

Ralf Zimmerningkat · 4 Mar 2025, 12:06

@Corjan-Meijerink

And why is that so? Why aren’t all rides logged? That would be much nicer even by using Carplay

Corjan Meijerink · 4 Mar 2025, 12:43

@Ralf-Zimmerningkat Deliberate choice.
Our users do not tend to be interested in automatic keeping track of AB routes

Starting / stopping a tracklog from CarPlay is something that will be added in a future update.

Con Hennekens · 4 Mar 2025, 13:48

@Ralf-Zimmerningkat, why would a plain A2B route be interesting enough to track?

Ralf Zimmerningkat · 4 Mar 2025, 14:35

@Corjan-Meijerink
I want to track and record all rides when the app is running.
There can always be interesting routes.

Adrian Avram · 4 Mar 2025, 18:34

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Adrian Avram · 4 Mar 2025, 18:35

@Corjan-Meijerink said in automatic tracklog:

Starting / stopping a tracklog from CarPlay is something that will be added in a future update

Will this be added to Android Auto as well ?
Thanks !

M. Schrijver · 4 Mar 2025, 18:45

Because of the winterseason it has been a while i used MRA.
Last season i've noticed a few times that the tracklog did not start when selecting a route direct in Android Auto.

When start a route on the phone and then connect to Android Auto. The tracklog works fine.

BTW
I'm talking about preplanned routes, not A to B

Corjan Meijerink · 4 Mar 2025, 19:25

@M-Schrijver thanks, I had a support ticket about this a while ago. Should all be working as intended. If not, let me know.

Corjan Meijerink · 4 Mar 2025, 19:25

@Adrian-Avram Yes! We tend to keep CarPlay and Android Auto in sync.
I just don't feel like constantly mentioning both

Nomko Nomden · 5 Mar 2025, 06:30

@Con-Hennekens said in automatic tracklog:

@Ralf-Zimmerningkat, why would a plain A2B route be interesting enough to track?

Sometimes i just go out for a ride (not even a planned route or a simple A-to-B roite, jujst riding) and find myself ending up on a stretch of road which looks very interesting but can't exactly remember were it was afterwards. So tracklogging a route would be very helpful to find it back!

I had a try this korning when i drove to my work and automatic tracklog will not start by just a plain A to B route.

And what's the big deal not having it tracked automaticaaly? It's just 1 push on a button to have tracklogging working...

Léon Hassing · 5 Mar 2025, 12:43

@Corjan-Meijerink said in automatic tracklog:

@M-Schrijver thanks, I had a support ticket about this a while ago. Should all be working as intended. If not, let me know.

I have a support ticket still open for this. When I start the route the tracking will only start when you start the route on your phone. Not when you open it on AA. When you have a stop and resume your route, you again have to open the app first before the tracking resumes. Also when you, during the stop, didn't pause the app on your phone.

Con Hennekens · 5 Mar 2025, 13:23

@Nomko-Nomden said in automatic tracklog:

And what's the big deal not having it tracked automaticaaly? It's just 1 push on a button to have tracklogging working...

And what's the big deal having it tracked manually. It's just one push of a button...
Most people use A2B for driving... uhm... A2B. It's irritating having to throw away a recorded track each time.

EDIT:
By the way, are you aware that you can also manually start tracking without an active route?

Nomko Nomden · 5 Mar 2025, 13:45

@Con-Hennekens I'm aware of that all!

As I already mentioned, I use tracking more to trace back where I have been and where all those beautiful roads can be found so that I can later put it all back into 1 big route.

Con Hennekens · 5 Mar 2025, 19:38

@Nomko-Nomden, That I certainly can understand.

KeesV

@Léon-Hassing and @Corjan-Meijerink
Today I did a test with track navigation with MRA version 4.3.7 via CarPlay. No automatic tracklog was started.

Con Hennekens

@KeesV, in the app-menu: "Navigation settings - Functional - Start tracklog automatically" needs te be enabled. After that, tracking of routes and tracks should be started automatically. For straight A to B routes, tracklog will not be started automatically, because those are considered not scenic and therefore not interesting enough for tracking.

Corjan Meijerink

I can confirm that there seems to be an issue when running the app completely without ever starting the app.

We will be fixing this issue. However, there currently is a more pressing issue