01 Introduction to the BMW Navigator 6
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2024
- This is the first in an 11 part video tutorial series that will walk you through how to get the most out of your BMW Navigator 6. This is all the stuff I wish somebody told me when I bought it.... but things I had to learn along the way.
I'm not a GPS or navigation guru, but I love technology and working out how to get the most from it. If anybody has any edits corrections or suggestions, all comments are welcome.
I hope you find this series useful.
Thank you for this series! Also, as an Austin native, it was great to see you riding the roads I grew up on.
I have used my Navi 6 on my K16GTL on a few trips and was frustrated with the Garmin planning software. I am now a member of REVER and will use it for my upcoming trips to the Smokey Mountains and the Finger Lakes of New York.
Take care, Dan
Brent, I also ride a GS in the central Texas hill country area. Until I watched your video series, I was often frustrated with basecamp. I just went on a beautiful trip from north San Antonio to Austin and my Nav 6 unit worked perfectly. Just wanted to thank you!
Music to my ears. Glad that my video helped. Happy riding.
Great series of instructional videos on the Nav VI. Well thought out and produced as well as easy to understand and implement. Great job!!
Your videos are excellent. I just subscribed and saved the six of your videos regarding the Nav-6. You’re an excellent teacher, well spoken and to the point. I appreciate your no nonsense approach. As you mentioned all the other sites ponder over if it is worth having the Nav-6 or just using your phone. Those videos are a waste of time. FYI I had an adapter from BMW for my I-phone, but the phone would overheat and the screen would go dark. Worst yet the phone flew off my bike in a construction zone. It was 3:00 AM and I was 500 miles from home, the phone was secured in the cradle to the bike as designed, but it shook loose on the freeway in the construction zone. The road was very bumpy, and although I was going the speed limit the vibration was too much for the cradle. It was too dangerous to go back and find phone, so i was without a phone, or maps until I got home. The cost for the new phone was $500.00. It could have been worse. I could have gotten stuck somewhere and not had a phone. Anyway - Thank You!
I totally agree with you Boom City. There are so many advantages to a dedicated GPS unit if you are doing adventure riding regularly. You highlighted another compelling reason... Redundancy. I always use my GPS as my primary navigation device, but then I have GaiGPS loaded on my phone with the maps downloaded and my tracks displayed. So now I have a totally redundant navigation system. On big adventures I'll also pack a paper map just in case as it takes up no room.
Love the Nav6. Thank you for the fantastic play list!
Thanks for taking the time to make this series of videos on the Nav VI. The biggest problem I have with the Nav VI is that a route is limited to 29 waypoints and the final destination. The Harley-Davidson's version of BaseCamp, called the H-D Route Planner, can handle 100 waypoints, which can then be easily transferred to the bike's Boom Box by Bluetoothing it from your phone. I know most routes don't use that many waypoints, but my H.O.G. chapter is very active with many different rides and if you are leading one and really want to nail down every turn and not leave it up to the GPS to decide to go down a shorter but less scenic road, it is very easy to go over 30 waypoints.
Yes Brent You're right, the new version has B & W menu pages, I found out from Garmin Southampton - thanks for your response. The BMW dealer who sold me the kit did not know this!
Great video's very informative.
My Pleasure Gabby, glad you got straightened out. Good luck and have fun.
Watched them all...to the current last no 7. Appreciate your work ( glad you dropped the loud background music in the later ones as it's much better and easier to listen to you with no distractions.... Cheers Mark
Thanks Mark, Yeah, I got a bit overzealous in those early videos with the background music. I don't put any background music on my tutorials these days.
@@brentbat yes I noticed 😁 I'll be checking out the rest as well this week ( while at work lol) just put a deposit on a 2013 r1200gs 👍🏻
@@MeanieMcMeanie Perfect. You might want to watch my Idaho BDR trip for some inspiration. The GS is a great machine. Also the Vic High Country adventure is pretty good to.
@@brentbat i will, thank you
Wow thanks! Exactly what I needed.. big thumbs up
Excellent. Glad it is useful. I have tons of adv content on my channel. Enjoy.
You have a new sub here, great info on the nav 6, very helpful, cheers
Great idea. Thank you for this. I think it is a valuable resource for us all!
Thanks for doing these instructional videos on Navigator I just purchased a f 750 GS 2021 but I don't know which Navigator I have either 5 or 6 I assume but thanks anyway I'm sure I will learn a lot thanks again
Thank you, Brent!
Thank you for the videos
I should've never bought that thing
At last a video series to help with Nav 6
Also check out the detailed series I have on my channel for Adventure planning. Lots of relevant info there about Garmin etc.
Watched all your Nav6 videos. Looking forward to your completion of the series. They are super informative, and well worth the time I spent watching. If you recently bought a Nav6 (like I did), these are a must watch!
Thanks Bill. Yes, I need to shoot the final 2 videos in the series. I've got another bout coming up in quarantine, so perhaps I'll shoot at least one of the videos before I leave Texas and edit it while locked up.
Brent, excellent video production and very informative. After struggling with base camp I checked to see if there is a way to go from Rever to the Garmin Nav VI directly. You can save the GPX file as Tracks and then drop that file into the GPX folder on your Garmin unit, bypassing basecamp. Once you power up the Garmin go to Tracks and convert the track to a ride. You get turn by turn directions. Much easier for me. Im curious if you’ve tried this. Thanks
Hey Joshua
I haven't tried this approach, mainly because I like to build my routes with a few waypoints through them. That way I know that if I have to deviate off the route, I can jump to the next waypoint (see the tutorial where I ride the route as an example).... So while people have told me that you can convert tracks to routes, I just don't trust these routes as much as I trust routes that I have "hand-built"... if that makes sense. There is nothing more frustrating than being out on a ride and something goes screwy with your navigation..... So for me, I actually prefer to construct the routes carefully.... watch what Basecamp is doing.... and then when I import both the track and the route to the Nav 6 I am confident that nothing can go wrong... and if it does, I know how to reasy rectify it while riding.
@@brentbat roger that. Supposedly you can turn off auto calculate and it won’t screw it up, haven’t tried that yet to see how it behaves. I gave up with base camp. I was able to get one route imported successfully per your instructions, I tried another and when I attempted to edit the magenta route it was jumping all over the place. If you ride through Missouri, drop me a line . Cheers
@@joshualorenz4665 Yes, you could turn off auto recalc I suppose.
I'll give your way a try sometime as an FYI, but perhaps I'm anal... I just like crafting my routes.
Thanks, I will be sure to check your series. I'm a total noob
Great series of videos. I'm late to motorbiking and waiting to finished my "P" imprisonment so I can move towards an adventure bike and do the trails you've showed in other videos. I showed my wife, who wasn't interested in motorbikes, your aerial videos of the Lost City and Sunnyside Ridge trail and now she's interested. Would you be able to share your base camp files for those NSW trails for importing in Zumo?
Sure thing... drop me an email at brentbat@gmail.com
Hi, I've just come across your series of tutorials and have found them extremely useful and easy to follow. It looks like the version of Basecamp you are using is for Mac and not only appears different to the Windows version but also seems to have different functionality - are you aware of the differences?
Hi Robert
No, I'm sorry, don't like using Windows, I'm a 100% Mac user so I can't help you on the differences with the Windows UI. Hopefully the concepts will all make sense and you'll just need to work out how to activate the similar functionality in Windows. Good luck.
why the music?
I made this a while ago... While I love music in videos, I have come to realise that it is not so great for tutorial videos which is why my latest set do NOT include music.
@@brentbat Thank you for not continuing with music and allowing for better concentration on your efforts to explain the workings of Basecamp - a monumental undertaking by you - looking forward to your videos.
Many thanks for the excellent tutorials. I would like to use this conversation for 2 Qs: (1) has anyone found a way to get the route colour on Routes (rather than Track)? I am colour blind and would prefer to have the route in simple black. (2) has anyone found a way to play music from an iPhone directly in the helmet. I found that if you pair your helmet to the new GS TFT and the Nav 6, the TFT "takes over" and no sound comes out... Big😀for the answer!
Hey Lemy, have you experimented changing the "Theme" of the maps. That might change the highlighted route colour from magenta to something you can see easier.
@@brentbat indeed this is what I have done. But I was hoping for more… thanks.
Thanks Brent. Love the tutes, dislike the music.
Thanks
Why that music in the back....????
Hi Brent, I have just bought the Nav 6 but the first (Where to? Show Map) and following menu pages are Black & White not colour! Do you know how to get it to show these pages in colour?
Hey Gabby, it may be that with a software update you have a newer interface. I also have a Garmin Zumo XT (Garmin make the Nav 6). and those front pages are in B&W on m y XT. The most important thing is that the maps are in colour.
Thanks- just to mention - you have a soft voice and the oompah oompah oompah background music is irritatingly loud.
I tried to make a route and it kept wanting to take me home also revet sucks just wants me to pay pay pay
You can ignore Rever, it was free when I made the video. There are other route planning apps that will export a gpx file for importing into your Nav 6.
Dont buy avoiding this 6 is the best plan . Ghosts and locks the screen touch screen un responding to touch. Know faults by garmin. Avoid !
Why the music,very annoying
Sorry Paul, it was one of my earlier videos. I took the feedback and killed the music for my later tutorials.
Good video, lose the annoying music
Great job Brent. However, we should all be asking Garmin why the Navigator 6 unit so bloody difficult and confusing to use, and so utterly non-intuitive that it requires someone like yourself to create 10 videos to show the basics? Basecamp is also an absolute disaster. Far too complex and awkward to use in all aspects of functionality ...
Hey John, I totally hear you. I think that Basecamp has been designed by engineers and it's been added to ... and added to.... and it is has become quite unwieldy, It is super powerful and there are a ton of features in it, but the learning curve is steep for sure.
Please delete the music, it's very annoying
The Nav 6 is overpriced, poorly functioning, and clunky. I removed the BMW prep from my 2022gs and mounted an Iphone Pro Max on a Quad-lock. Never going back to BMW Garmin nav. I had it on my 2017 and never used it. There are multiple ways to download maps on the iPhone. The rumor is apple will add some sat capabilities in the 14. I do carry a personal emergency locater beacon, however.
Kill the background music
No
So disappointed with my V6 - what a piece of crap, cost a fortune, and is so slow I had a Garmin years ago and it was great, I had great expectations when I purchased this for my RT what turned out to be a great wast money the Base camp is crap also nothing is straight forward or just doesn't work, Google Maps and Waze kills the BMW V6 don't wast your money riders - I will do a Vlog shortly showing this slow motion piece of crap in action . .
Do not buy the NavVI. I am my 3rd one and it has failed again. They are expensive and will let you down constantly. They really are expensive rubbish.