Red Line...
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I've seen a few topics about rerouting, but I have to start one more, because at the moment rerouting works very badly, especially when someone is riding a lot off-road.
Some examples. I made a small photo stop a few meters from the track, rerouting started and then even though I was back on track and was following the plan, rerouting wanted to take me in some strange direction.
I stopped and reloaded the route, the yellow line came back, but 50 meters away I had to bypass a tree on the path, I drove a few meters from the path, and the red line turned on anyway, even though I was right back on the yellow line.
Here I did a little shortcut on my scheduled route and instead of pointing me to the yellow one a few blocks away, the red one is directing me somewhere on the other side of town with other paths than planned ?!
The yellow line should have maximum priority! It shouldn't be that the red line turns on even when I drive just a few meters from the yellow, and especially it shouldn't be pointing in any strange direction, but as short as possible to the yellow. It is ridiculous that the red line does not disappear, it still shows unknown direction, even when I have returned to the track on yellow line. I really don't understand why you still have not introduced the option to disable rerouting, I remember that the thread with such a request had several dozen upvotes.
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Ali. The ability to disable rerouting is one of the most requested topics on this site and it is still being ignored. I understand that valve stems are important to 3 Hammerhead owners as opposed to the many who want this option, but you are really annoying a lot of people.
What happened to listening to your customers???
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The product is for its users. HH, if you have launched such a channel of information exchange with users, listen to what users want, and do not do what you think seems better.
This enable / disable option is a task for a novice programmer. This is nothing complicated.
So now we are waiting for a situation when someone gets lost in a dense forest due to Karoo's bad work and what I do not wish him will stay there for a few days, I guess this is not what the HH team wants and eventually it will come to that.
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You assume it's not complicated based on an outside perspective. You don't know the Karoo 2 software implementation. It may or may not be. Stating it as fact doesn't make it fact.
Is that an excuse for them not doing it? No, but I've seen this justification come up repeatedly on the forum the last bit that "something is easy" so why isn't it done yet. Unless you're the software developer working on it you just really don't know.
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I for one certainly lack the imagination to come up with a software architecture where this would be actually complicated. I mean, in the end it has to boil down to something along the lines of IF off-route THEN do-reroute, changing which to IF (off-route AND rerouting-allowed) THEN do-reroute isn’t exactly rocket surgery. (Yeah, of course there will be some additional housekeeping, like handling that there are no upcoming navigation cues as long as you are off route and such, but still.)
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The routing functionality is a major disappointment. It was one of the reasons I bought this unit.
I took a ride today, had to remove the route 4 times in order to keep on track. The rerouting is way to aggressive. In a forest when the satellite reception is poor this thing keeps on rerouting mindlessly
Not that anyone seems to care at HH seeing al these posts about rerouting. The only thing users seem to be able to do keeping up the pressure by posting to this forum...
I wonder when/if somebody will finally listen.
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This happened to me many times: I'm on route but my Karoo 2 is re-routing me. I had to laugh when I saw this same issue in a Karoo 2 product review on YouTube:
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HH is not listening, please add comments on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HeXuFKSpYY
perhaps this will help as new customers will be more tuned to Youtube then to this forum
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