After reading Wapping's post about how his nav6 was recalculating at will I thought I would do a test of my own after doing the 4.90 update. Previously I'd been a Montana user so I never bothered with any routes just loaded the track up and followed it or just put in a destination, but the nav6 works a little different to the montana.
The 4.90 update seems to have solved a lot of issues, especially with connections to iPhone for music and the MP3 player, I have loaded most of my music onto the sdcard and previous to the up date it wouldn't always connect the media player to my sena10s now it connects every time and I can switch between iPhone and sdcard music source with no issue.
As for the routing I like to plan most of my trips/routes on basecamp and then just transfer it to the nav6, I don't do much route planning on the unit directly, if I do I just tend to put in a destination that I may want to see and let it calculate it out.
So today I built a route on basecamp from mine to Norwich, 20miles or so, added in 2 waypoints that were slightly off the route I would take so I deliberately missed them to see what happened.
I had the unit set to prompt for recalculating and the auto-skip waypoint box ticked.
1. Home to waypoint 2, I had to get fuel on the way which took me off the planned route a fraction, it asked me if I wanted to recalculate I said no and it just did exactly that. Filled up with fuel and started the bike and the nav6 was still acting as I wanted it to with the magenta preplanned route still showing if I zoomed out far enough. I then clicked on the blue top banner and it brought up the route with the waypoints on, I selected continue which it replied with "please drive to highlighted route" I then got back to the route myself (it didn't put a route up for me to follow to get back on the planned route if that makes sense)
2. Waypoint 2, this is where it gets interesting, I followed the route until I deliberately missed waypoint 2, it asked me if I wanted to recalculate as it should and I said no.
Now at this point I was expecting it to auto skip the 2nd waypoint I deliberately missed and direct me to waypoint 3 as the auto skip waypoint box was ticked but it didn't, should it have??
3. Waypoint 3, to get it to continue giving me directions I had to go into the route via the blue top banner and choose the next waypoint then it started to give me directions but most importantly it didn't change the original route sent from basecamp which I like it just continued on it. When I missed waypoint 3 it asked me if I wanted it to reroute and I said yes, it then rerouted me back to waypoint 3 not the final destination and made no other changes apart from getting me to make sure I got to waypoint 3.
4. Final destination, after leaving waypoint 3 it was still keeping me on the original route I sent it from Basecamp until I got to my destination.
5. Findings, on the whole this works exactly as I want it too, I haven't used shaping points yet so not sure how that will work when rerouting but I think it will just try to get you back to the magenta line as quickly as it can.
I just can't get my head around the auto skip waypoint tick box, I had it ticked thinking it would skip waypoint 2 after I went past it and asked it to recalculate but it made me go back to it, this is what I would expect if the box wasn't ticked. If it was ticked I would expect it to direct you to the next waypoint, any ideas??
The 4.90 update seems to have solved a lot of issues, especially with connections to iPhone for music and the MP3 player, I have loaded most of my music onto the sdcard and previous to the up date it wouldn't always connect the media player to my sena10s now it connects every time and I can switch between iPhone and sdcard music source with no issue.
As for the routing I like to plan most of my trips/routes on basecamp and then just transfer it to the nav6, I don't do much route planning on the unit directly, if I do I just tend to put in a destination that I may want to see and let it calculate it out.
So today I built a route on basecamp from mine to Norwich, 20miles or so, added in 2 waypoints that were slightly off the route I would take so I deliberately missed them to see what happened.
I had the unit set to prompt for recalculating and the auto-skip waypoint box ticked.
1. Home to waypoint 2, I had to get fuel on the way which took me off the planned route a fraction, it asked me if I wanted to recalculate I said no and it just did exactly that. Filled up with fuel and started the bike and the nav6 was still acting as I wanted it to with the magenta preplanned route still showing if I zoomed out far enough. I then clicked on the blue top banner and it brought up the route with the waypoints on, I selected continue which it replied with "please drive to highlighted route" I then got back to the route myself (it didn't put a route up for me to follow to get back on the planned route if that makes sense)
2. Waypoint 2, this is where it gets interesting, I followed the route until I deliberately missed waypoint 2, it asked me if I wanted to recalculate as it should and I said no.
Now at this point I was expecting it to auto skip the 2nd waypoint I deliberately missed and direct me to waypoint 3 as the auto skip waypoint box was ticked but it didn't, should it have??
3. Waypoint 3, to get it to continue giving me directions I had to go into the route via the blue top banner and choose the next waypoint then it started to give me directions but most importantly it didn't change the original route sent from basecamp which I like it just continued on it. When I missed waypoint 3 it asked me if I wanted it to reroute and I said yes, it then rerouted me back to waypoint 3 not the final destination and made no other changes apart from getting me to make sure I got to waypoint 3.
4. Final destination, after leaving waypoint 3 it was still keeping me on the original route I sent it from Basecamp until I got to my destination.
5. Findings, on the whole this works exactly as I want it too, I haven't used shaping points yet so not sure how that will work when rerouting but I think it will just try to get you back to the magenta line as quickly as it can.
I just can't get my head around the auto skip waypoint tick box, I had it ticked thinking it would skip waypoint 2 after I went past it and asked it to recalculate but it made me go back to it, this is what I would expect if the box wasn't ticked. If it was ticked I would expect it to direct you to the next waypoint, any ideas??