Hi everyone, My machine was in for service and the guy at the dealership said that an owner had shown him a better set up of a map actually working from an iphone on the dashboard of a MTS V4. But he couldn't remember the name of the app (sounded like a 3rd party app, but clearly not Sygic) Has anyone any ideas what it might have been? If it really exists? Or does anyone have any useful tips and tricks to using maps and Sat Nav on the bike. I have a normal iphone (it's an SE mk2) and like so many other people just gave up with Ducati Connect Sygic and the rest of the software because it was just so troublesome to set up and didn't seem to work properly anyway. I'm very reluctant to go down the route of having more than one screen on the bike - I don't even have the iphone on a mount but realise I could. Ideally having the MTS V4S dash showing a proper sat nav in the way that it is described would be the best solution but I've not managed to get it to work for more than a few minutes at a time - and even then it's as clunky as hell.
I'm sure everyone has an opinion on the best way to approach it. I agree the Sygic solution is awful. I remember when doing my research on "next bike" there was a Lamb Chop YouTube video where here talks about, and seems to have working, Google Maps on his V4S test bike's screen ?
It's a shame Ducati have completely dumped development of the Link app, as for those not using the Connect system (as utilized on the newer Multistradas), it's woefully out of date and still only supports Bluetooth 2.0 which is frankly ancient. It has been updated a few times since it's inception then they removed the ability for it to store and read back certain ride data such as lean angles, speeds and trip stats, location etc. It still works in isolation (barely), it just refuses to run this option with the DMS media facility at the same time without it crashing. It is one or the other. Cannot understand why they are still marketing it as being able to do both and why the bluetooth chipset in the DMS module hasn't been upgraded.
Separate sat nav be it a Garmin, TomTom or phone, all day long. If a phone then a shock reducing mount should be used.
