Wahoo and Routes

[ColinJ]

I concur that that's how it behaves, so far as I've seen. I'd also suggest that that is the correct, or at least /desirable/ behaviour, is it not?

It would be a bit odd for there to be electronic dithering out on the road:

• Turn left
• I mean right
• Or is it actually left?
• No, definitely right!
• I think...

 

[Sea of vapours]

The dogleg junction scenario you describe catches out quite a few turn-by-turn generators. Purely from observation, I don't think the Bolt / Roam knows much about priorities; or, if they do then they're often wrong. There's an identical junction to the one you describe near me (dogleg across a road where the road being crossed has priority). If using the head unit without an externally-created route loaded ('take me home' or 'route to start'), all I get is 'turn left in x metres'; with a Komoot route it'll say 'turn right' prior to the 'turn left'.

 

[Glasgow44]

Have you checked the head unit itself? If not, turn it on, synch it and see if the route is there.

I ask since, as a test, I just created a Komoot route (on a browser, on a laptop, and it appeared on the Wahoo head unit as soon as I turned the head unit on and synched it (via WiFi direct to the head unit, not via the phone), whereas it has taken about five minutes to appear on the phone, which was switched on with the Wahoo Elemnt App running at all

Yeah, I've checked the head unit. Routes are not pulling through to the Wahoo app thus not appearing on the head unit.

 

[Glasgow44]

Hi everyone for your replies

One last question:

If I have downloaded a route onto my Wahoo head unit from the app and, for example, the route is from B to C - if I was to start the ride A to B, then pass through the route B to C that has been downloaded, then continue to ride C to D - will the Wahoo computer stop and start at each section? I want to start the ride not at the route start point but continue through the route and beyond without any break so that it shows up as one ride

 

[Alex321]

Hi everyone for your replies

One last question:

If I have downloaded a route onto my Wahoo head unit from the app and, for example, the route is from B to C - if I was to start the ride A to B, then pass through the route B to C that has been downloaded, then continue to ride C to D - will the Wahoo computer stop and start at each section? I want to start the ride not at the route start point but continue through the route and beyond without any break so that it shows up as one ride

If you just start the ride, then it will continue to record that ride (as one ride) until you say to end it.

For what you are suggesting, you could from point A, select the B to C route, select "trake me to start", then just click to start the ride.

Rides and routes are separate things, and it does not record separate rides for when you are on or following a selected route or not.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Hi everyone for your replies

One last question:

If I have downloaded a route onto my Wahoo head unit from the app and, for example, the route is from B to C - if I was to start the ride A to B, then pass through the route B to C that has been downloaded, then continue to ride C to D - will the Wahoo computer stop and start at each section? I want to start the ride not at the route start point but continue through the route and beyond without any break so that it shows up as one ride

Route following and datalogging are completely separate.

Regardless as to which route you follow (and you can do multiple ones in the same ride if you want) the logged data will be for whatever GPS data you have logged from the time you press "start" to the time you press "end" on the head unit.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It would be a bit odd for there to be electronic dithering out on the road:

• Turn left
• I mean right
• Or is it actually left?
• No, definitely right!
• I think...

“Bear left”
…
…
”Beaver right”

 

[PaulSB]

I concur that that's how it behaves, so far as I've seen. I'd also suggest that that is the correct, or at least /desirable/ behaviour, is it not?

I'd go as far as to say this is the essential and only acceptable option. The idea of the head unit overriding a plot made by the user could lead to difficulties.

There are several places I know where local knowledge of what actually happens on the ground is important when plotting. For example one road we ride shows as a footpath in RWGPS. The only way to route along this section is change the activity to walking. I wouldn't want a head unit to attempt to re-route that.