Vibration and vocal announcements navigation on Wear
Gathering feedback
Now that Locus Map for Wear is a reality, can another navigation option to be added in the screen below?
I'm thinking on these two, in particular:
- Silent navigation with the watch vibrating before a turn; this is ideal to not disturb other people and still know which path to take using the map and arrows on Locus Wear screen.
People stare at me using voice navigations when hiking ;-) - Vocal commands navigation just like one smartphone, but with the audio coming out from the watch speaker. The phone might be recharging in a backpack for example.
I like this idea 
Too talky TTS navigation ? A nightmare experience.
"People stare at me using voice navigations when hiking ;-)"
Start hiking with friends, finish only accompagnied by your too talky phone.
What can you do actually ?
Discrete loud and clear compact basic direction L/R/S indication by:
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/morse-code-language-file
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/transfer-function-in-config-cfg-to-gui-navigation-expert-setting
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/optimize-navigation-announcements
Settings for absolute minimum total order announcements !
A. config.cfg >
# times before command, when Locus notify (in seconds), default is: 15|35|300 navigation_announcements_times=15
B. Settings > Navigation > Advanced settings > Two commands at once: Off.
C. Settings > Navigation > Advanced settings > Frequency of commands: None.
(As I halted function old method commands by trackshape, anyway free to use Y or N)
Too talky TTS navigation ? A nightmare experience.
"People stare at me using voice navigations when hiking ;-)"
Start hiking with friends, finish only accompagnied by your too talky phone.
What can you do actually ?
Discrete loud and clear compact basic direction L/R/S indication by:
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/morse-code-language-file
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/transfer-function-in-config-cfg-to-gui-navigation-expert-setting
http://help.locusmap.eu/topic/optimize-navigation-announcements
Settings for absolute minimum total order announcements !
A. config.cfg >
# times before command, when Locus notify (in seconds), default is: 15|35|300 navigation_announcements_times=15
B. Settings > Navigation > Advanced settings > Two commands at once: Off.
C. Settings > Navigation > Advanced settings > Frequency of commands: None.
(As I halted function old method commands by trackshape, anyway free to use Y or N)
Pleas Mr. Cejnar, I would like to use vibrations on my watch to indicate direction change. It would be great!
Pleas Mr. Cejnar, I would like to use vibrations on my watch to indicate direction change. It would be great!
I was just visiting this site to ask for speech coming out of my TicWatch Pro running Locus Pro Wear. The single reason why I bought the watch was because of Wear support from Locus. Now I can leave my phone in the pocket when biking: quite safer! I am now missing navigation sounds/speech coming from the watch, as, still, the phone is in my pocket :) Tnx!
I was just visiting this site to ask for speech coming out of my TicWatch Pro running Locus Pro Wear. The single reason why I bought the watch was because of Wear support from Locus. Now I can leave my phone in the pocket when biking: quite safer! I am now missing navigation sounds/speech coming from the watch, as, still, the phone is in my pocket :) Tnx!
Another vote for vibrations on the watch indicating direction change. As a plus, a different vibration pattern for direction changes to the left (one buzz) and to the right (two buzz) so you wouldn't even have to look at your watch.
I tried adding the functionality myself but learned that unfortunately the PeriodicUpdatesReceiver stops listening for updates after some time so not getting updated direction information on the device that can be pushed to the wear app in background. Maybe someone familiar with the wear code can give me a hint how to keep getting updates pushed to the watch while navigating even if the wear app is not in foreground?
Another vote for vibrations on the watch indicating direction change. As a plus, a different vibration pattern for direction changes to the left (one buzz) and to the right (two buzz) so you wouldn't even have to look at your watch.
I tried adding the functionality myself but learned that unfortunately the PeriodicUpdatesReceiver stops listening for updates after some time so not getting updated direction information on the device that can be pushed to the wear app in background. Maybe someone familiar with the wear code can give me a hint how to keep getting updates pushed to the watch while navigating even if the wear app is not in foreground?
It would be nice to have the possibility to transfer the vibration for the off-course alert to the watch!
It would be nice to have the possibility to transfer the vibration for the off-course alert to the watch!
I was going to post the same idea. Why not have a first very simple option on the wear like "vibrate same as phone", so everytime locus vibrates the phone, it applies a vibration on the smartwatch or even the same vibration pattern on the smartwatch, too.
So It'd use it most for notifications on turns.
I was going to post the same idea. Why not have a first very simple option on the wear like "vibrate same as phone", so everytime locus vibrates the phone, it applies a vibration on the smartwatch or even the same vibration pattern on the smartwatch, too.
So It'd use it most for notifications on turns.
very sad that this by-turn notification is not implemented yet in wear for locus map pro. it is the main feature that helps and its just annoying that its missing. i bought a watch because of this. imagine you really cycle with wear and do not get vibration notifications: on every crossroad and every couple of meters you have to check the watch. ok for hiking, but definetly not for bike traveling. 0 points, sorry
very sad that this by-turn notification is not implemented yet in wear for locus map pro. it is the main feature that helps and its just annoying that its missing. i bought a watch because of this. imagine you really cycle with wear and do not get vibration notifications: on every crossroad and every couple of meters you have to check the watch. ok for hiking, but definetly not for bike traveling. 0 points, sorry
Are there any news on vibration and vocal announcements navigation on Wear? I would love to use this functionality?
Are there any news on vibration and vocal announcements navigation on Wear? I would love to use this functionality?
It would be nice if notifications were also sent to a watch while navigating a route.
Why isn't this happening?
It would be nice if notifications were also sent to a watch while navigating a route.
Why isn't this happening?
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