Help for users of Garmin sat navs

Riding it is better

Dougie's cracked it,I can see all his routes now we're friends.

 

I just converted my my 'Track' into a route !!!! Dead easy. Just clicked on import, import track (Not route) and selected it from the file on my armin unit that was plugged into the laptop.

Reason was, I went seriously off-road today and ended up 40 miles from home on the KTM !!!! The armin couldn't follow all the route I had put into it, mainly because they were forest tracks and not actual roads. Will have to go do it again and hopefully this time Garmin will take me all the way.

 

was that just on the garmin basecamp or mapmyroute?

 

Use myroute-app route planning thingymabob page.

 

Is anyone having issues with Bluetooth connection? It keeps dropping out between my 340 and scala q3, my phone stays connected to q3 so not sure what's happening

 

Cheers, Havent tried that yet, but it shouldn't be an issue due to the scala having 2 channels, I always need my phone on incase of www....you know what I mean

 

Hi guys, just stumbled on your thread last night, can I join your gang please?
I'm new to the myroute-app but have been using Garmin sat-navs for 14 years now (Garmin-V, Zumo550, Zumo660) and fairly proficient at Basecamp (tcbandituk your not the only one now) and its predecessor MapSource. Must have about 30k miles of routes mostly in Europe stashed away on my pc. Also understand and have experience of creating poi files, eg got a few which contain Triumph dealers in various countries (always useful if the worst happens).
It sounds like the latest Garmin sat-navs may have changed their terminology/features a bit but unless they've changed their architecture (12AX7) yes you can remove all your tracks but you need to connect to your pc and dig out the relevant files.
Winter's here and Speedy's tucked away in the garage now till spring, so if I can be of assistance....

 

I'm running scala q3 with my Zumo660, connection is solid between them and also bike to bike with SWMBO, but as soon as I use the phone bluetooth as well it then starts to get a bit flakey.
I suspect it might be because I'm potentially connecting to the phone via 2 routes. I've got the phone paired directly to the q3 (so I can use it when sat-navs not fitted) but also paired to zumo so you get the phone book/dial function on there. I've been thinking about resetting the q3 to wipe its connection to the phone (which I rarely use anyway) and just let the zumo handle the phone.

 

Yup that's what the issue was, phone connected to satnav and scala so it got confused and dropped the connection all round. I have set phone to forget the garmin and only use scala as I don't need phonebook etc as I only use it for incoming calls. Seems to work now

 

Kind of reassuring knowing it's not just me then.

Now I'm in the gang I'll start posting some routes etc. over the winter months, I'll start with the POI files (and what to do with them) for Triumph dealers as that's universally handy to have loaded. Any other requests? I've covered most of the good biking areas of Europe (Croatia is my furthest jaunt), or Cornwall of course.

 

Your's would take you to Bavaria! ! ! !

 

Can you tell me if the garmin has an "avoid part of route" facility? My tom tom does and it's great for ..... yes you've guessed it.....avoiding certain roads on your journey, like if you get bored of the motorway after a while.
I know it has detour but you're at a loss as to where that will take you. Ah! An another thing! Can you get an overview of your route so that you can see where it's taking you? So many questions.