Please make a mobile app dashboard!!!

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Johnathan Freter

• October 17, 2021 16:39

It's rather annoying to use the computer dashboard to push the Strava routes to the head unit. Can we please get a mobile app that you can use to push it? Or better yet just have a daily auto push? Thank you!

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  Steve

  • October 17, 2021 20:28

  But the Hammerhead dashboard loads perfectly well in a mobile browser?

  

  What is the problem here? All you need to do is tap on the sync button.

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  Brad Haack

  • October 17, 2021 22:56

  Steve, the problem is that you can't sync if you don't have wifi

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  Brad Haack

  • October 20, 2021 13:36

  Perhaps we're talking about 2 different things here.  Yes, you can sync to the server if your phone has cell service, but that won't sync to the head unit unless it is on wifi, or you buy a SIM card and cell service for your karoo, which most of us don't have.

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  Brad Haack

  • October 20, 2021 14:51

  Not everyone has a mobile hotspot, that is an extra subscription cost.

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  Steve

  • October 20, 2021 14:55

  No additional cost for enabling personal hotspots on iPhone (as far as I'm aware). Just comes out of my monthly data plan.

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  Johnathan Freter

  • October 20, 2021 15:28

  Verizon blocked/removed the hotspot from my iPhone a while back and I’m still on a discounted rate from a former employer. I can’t do anything to my current plan without losing that discount. Not ready for that double whammy.

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  Brad Haack

  • October 20, 2021 21:24

  Actually we have an app don't we.  It just doesn't do much.   A more complete app could transfer gpx tracks or routes over bluetooth.

  While I was out riding today I thought of a partial solution to one of my issues.  If I had a wifi router or someway to create a wifi network in my camper van, maybe I wouldn't need cell service or a hotspot, or access to the internet.  I could use FTP to transfer files from my laptop to my karoo.  Maybe.

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  Andreas Lauinger

  • November 04, 2021 08:16

  Brad, I would appreciate a bluetooth upload of the route as well. Wahoo supports this via their app.

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  Steve

  • November 04, 2021 08:45

  The Hammerhead app is Android only and enables Android phones to broadcast notifications to the, errr, Android-based Karoo. Why can't Android devices talk to each other natively? Doesn't seem to be an issue for iOS, hence no iOS app.

  Also, I cannot ever think of a time when I have thought, "I wish I could send this route over Bluetooth to my Karoo". I actually think Hammerhead's cloud strategy is pretty good and the way in which is the Dashboard can sync with other platforms is excellent. It's by no means perfect - and it would be nice if the Karoo itself was able to sync directly with connected services without going via the Dashboard - but I do not have an issue with this today. It works perfectly for me.

  Just because Wahoo has this does not make Karoo inferior, IMO. I prefer Hammerhead's method of getting routes onto my Karoo.

   

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  Andreas Lauinger

  • November 04, 2021 09:27

  Steve, Wahoo can also sync via cloud and it doesn't even need a dashboard. The Bluetooth route would be only an alternative when you are out and have no WiFi access. How do you get the route to the unit then? You would need to create an WiFi hotspot etc. I agree though, there are more important things to do, but it would be helpful sometimes.

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