Instructions on using Ride Command

[dr4pat]

Is there written instructions for detailed imputes in the use of ride command and plus .
I have watched vids and have no luck trying to make a route , put it to a flash drive.

I guess I need written instructions in front of me.

thanks , there are so many things i want to be able to do on ride command and plus

 

[Nehls]

So the easiest way to do it is to make a route on your cell phone app… then it will show up in the ride command on the unit.

I have an IPhone and a trick you have to do with your Bluetooth/hotspot, in the hotspot section you have to turn on or enable “maximize compatibility” and then it should sync your stuff right to the ride command screen.

The thing with ride command is it’s not a turn by turn gps. so you have to make sure your starting point for the route is basically on the first part your going by otherwise it will want you to keep going back to that starting point. I still haven’t mastered that part of it and I’m on my 3rd unit with ride command haha

 

[f150harley]

In my experience with the ride command mapping features I found it useful as a confirmation while in travel. For route planning, turn by turn, location specific viewpoints etc. I use Gaia, onyx, goggle maps,. Often download maps to cell or tablet prior to ride. In my opinion polaris needs to provide an api into their ride command especially the mapping functionality. They should focus on their core business functions and get out of the software ride command business.

 

[Dmax61]

I live in ride in northern Minnesota and I've ridden with people that work on the ride command team for Polaris, the past president of our local off-road Riding Club worked on the ride command team. It is so frustrating to have such a great tool and not be able to use it. There's never been a time where we've had a group ride where anybody can get connected to the follow me feature. I have offered to have them send me down to work with the ride command team for a day or two to learn everything there is to know and then I would go to different riding clubs around the state to teach them but to no avail. One of the biggest things to learn is how to turn on and off or pause your current ride to avoid getting all of the spaghetti lines everywhere on your GPS. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one frustrated with the ride command tools.

 

[f150harley]

Ride command works fairly well for me given what it's designed to do. Ride Command OS if you want to call it an Operating System is a closed architecture. In my opinion they need to transition out of the mapping functions by providing industry standard api (application program interface) so other software vendors (on-X, etc) can take advantage the limited in size screen display. If they want to enlarge the screen display make it consistent with laptop, cell phone, etc displays. Allow the user cell phone (OS) to be more of a hub for many functions. If Polaris wants to keep the instrumentation with ECU/ rpm's etc. that's up to them ... but open up the proprietary Polaris architecture. As long as I'm making recommendations the software staff might be better used to validate the workability / failure rate of components manufactured by sub-manufactures before Polaris uses them in their production rigs Quality Control is severely lacking with these more complex machines now coming off the production line..

 

[DogRunner2]

I live in ride in northern Minnesota and I've ridden with people that work on the ride command team for Polaris, the past president of our local off-road Riding Club worked on the ride command team. It is so frustrating to have such a great tool and not be able to use it. There's never been a time where we've had a group ride where anybody can get connected to the follow me feature. I have offered to have them send me down to work with the ride command team for a day or two to learn everything there is to know and then I would go to different riding clubs around the state to teach them but to no avail. One of the biggest things to learn is how to turn on and off or pause your current ride to avoid getting all of the spaghetti lines everywhere on your GPS. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one frustrated with the ride command tools.

Group ride is very simple to use imo.No one in my group has trouble.