Why is live tracking the worst available?

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Preston Boebel

• July 11, 2023 20:27

I recently purchased the Karoo 2 and was very excited to get it up and running. That excitement rapidly faded when I got home from my first ride and my wife told me the live tracking barely worked and gave her very little information. That led to a lot of web searching only to discover years of the same complaints. Why is live tracking so poorly implemented? It's worse than simple location sharing with my phone! Why is safety a second (or even lower) tier issue? Needless to say, I'm pretty frustrated that I'm going to have to choose between the Karoo or my Garmin when heading out on longer rides. For a device at this price-point I'm very disappointed. 

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  Nigel Richards

  • July 12, 2023 09:42

  Agree,  tried this for a few months and found live tracking to be unreliable and be of less use than using a phone.   This area is massively under developed. 

  Some areas that would be good:

  1) reliable tracking - not sure why it's so bad when live map is ok.

  2) option to share ride stats live (choose which stats)

  3) track multiple riders at same time - very useful at events

  4) route to location of another rider in a shared list.    

  Which of these gets your vote or what would you add?

   

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  Preston Boebel

  • July 12, 2023 19:17

  I just want reliable live tracking... it's literally in the name.

  In no particular order.

  1. Route if loaded

  2. Trail showing where I've been

  3. Current position

  4. Notifications of start/stop sent to followers

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  Felix Pruemmer

  • July 13, 2023 06:11

  I agree. This is one of the few things that Garmin got right! 

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  Alejandro Alvarez

  • July 15, 2023 19:37

  The live tracking on my old Wahoo Elemnt Bolt was clearly better than Hammerhead... Every time i started a route with my old wahoo, my three favourites contacts receive a notification on their phones, they dont need to have the link stored in their phones, that is the only way with Hammerhead. If someone of my family wanted to know where i was, they just click on the link and they can see the route that i was following, the complete route that i was to do and my speed, time etc etc, so much information to know the time that i was going to need to arrive at home... The live tracking option needs to be greatly improved, there is still a lot of work to do.

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  Preston Boebel

  • July 17, 2023 18:48
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  I just got back from a ride. I realized I can at least trigger usable live tracking from my watch. It also made me more annoyed with the Karoo since it won't even trigger Strava live tracking. I feel like that at the very least would be easy to implement.

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  Martin

  • July 21, 2023 09:31

  Because of the altimeter bug in the Karoo, I get rid of the SIM card in it. So now I use the “find my iPhone” function on my phone….

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