Looking for Navigation options besides ACP - What do you recommend?

[mecsw500]

You failed to include all of the other BRP products in your assessment of what BRP GO does.

The 3-wheel product line is fairly minor part of the company, and BRP GO works on all of the BRP product lines.

I understand your point. However, the BRP Go use case for road touring with a Spyder is different to the other BRP vehicles and watercraft. Perhaps the core of the system is portable across each of the product range, but the capabilities required for a jet ski are rather different than those required for a Spyder. Perhaps the same software that configures its UI, depending upon what machine it is installed on, would be the way to go. The whole route planning through street address waypoints is a peculiar requirement for road going vehicles I think.

Me, I stick with Apple Maps on my phone. Sometimes I use CarPlay on the 10.25” display, but mostly not. However, even in the US, Android phones are popular. In South America, Asia, and SE Asia, both Android and increasingly, Huawei’s own OS, are extremely popular, all markets Can Am is trying to expand into. Users of Chinese vehicles in those markets are used to highly sophisticated display systems with high quality navigation apps on even the most entry level of motorcycles and automobiles. I drove a Chinese rental car in Thailand and was blown away by the technology embedded in it.

My comment about the USB A’s current provision still stands. It should really be USB C at this point in time to handle top end phones both running apps and still charging. Most phone devices are largely USB C by now with higher current draw requirements.

The comments I make here I most surely make known to BRP as feedback. Posting my thoughts about BRP Go here are to get feedback on my opinions, provoke other’s opinions, and so I can gain some kind of more complete nuances to my discussions with BRP. Sometimes I’m off in left field, sometimes I’m not. It’s nice to have the opinions of others and I’m not adverse to people saying I’m wrong or even crazy. I’m often both, and at my age perhaps even a little senile.

 

[RayBJ]

What seems to be lost in this discussion is that BRP is a recreational machine manufacturer. They aren't application designers.
BRP-GO is still a non-starter for true navigation use.
To the OP, focus on stand-alone GPS units or your phone. Your mental health specialist will thank you.

 

[racoon]

I understand you point. However the BRP Go use case for road touring with a Spyder is different to the other BRP vehicles and watercraft.

And yet BRP GO! is the app for use across all BRP products, regardless of your opinion that it should be more focused on the needs of the on-road vehicles. It works the way it works.

As an Apple user I'm quite happy with the way Apple CarPlay works on my 2024 Spyder RT.

 

[mecsw500]

And yet BRP GO! is the app for use across all BRP products, regardless of your opinion that it should be more focused on the needs of the on-road vehicles. It works the way it works.

As an Apple user I'm quite happy with the way Apple CarPlay works on my 2024 Spyder RT.

I’m an Apple user so that’s fine by me too, but in emerging markets and even the US, Apple is not necessarily the dominant phone manufacturer.

It works the way it works indeed, but the feedback I send to BRP is that this is an opportunity left untapped, especially when compared to premium touring motorcycles which includes Harley, and soon to be Indian, with their trikes.

In fact, although the app is the same across platforms, the head end of the software which runs on the displays is actually quite different, so there are already significantly differing implementations between all of BRP’s product lines.

 

[racoon]

Google thinks Harley-Davidson has it's own app. But Google also thinks the basic navigation app is free but to tie into the display requires a $350 fee.
Also the app is completely proprietary without support for apps like Apple Maps, Google Maps, Waze, or Scenic.

 

[racoon]

A bit more time with Google, and it appears the 2020 or new Indian Motorcycle with built in navigation the RIDE COMMAND app supports Apple Carplay.

 

[Dasmoetorhead]

Most of the Motorcycle "Zumo" Garmin's will play MP3 files, which even included my old Zumo 550. The one thing about the Zumo 665, it has XM built into it too, so I get turn by turn directions and XM Classic Rewind. Granted, you have to mount an XM40 antenna...

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Dang! That looks like the cockpit of a Boing 757.

 

[weeneil]

Since I have a 2022 Spyder I added an Aoocci device which brings reliable CarPlay to the trike. It also has front and rear dash cams. It's been flawless for over a year.

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how did you mount the dash? My front camera is the same but I mounted the rear camera centrally on the angled part of the top box above the BRP logo as I will never need to remove it completely

 

[Danvirsse]

I use my phone on a home-made bracket mounted with the handlebar bolts. I like to pre-plan my routes so I use DMD. There is a free version of the app for Android and it offers a web-based version for planning the routes on my laptop.