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Justin Hope Thursday 24 May 2018 13:08:35
If anyone's interested, I bought an Elemnt anyway, and there are a couple of ways of doing it. Either download the file as TCX and email it to yourself, then open the attachment from your phone and 'open with' the Elemnt app (which will come up as an option). It saves the route and seems to work fine. One thing to bear in mind is that you won't need the turn notifications on when you download the file as the Elemnt gives you the advance warnings automatically.
The other way of doing it, which is a bit better, is to save all of your route files as TCX to something like Dropbox or Google Drive (again, without the turn warnings). Then when you want to do a particular route, you simply open Dropbox / Google Drive from your phone, choose the route, 'open with' the Elemnt app, and you have your route ready to go once it is synced to the device. This seems to work pretty well.
The ideal solution would be what happens with Ride With GPS, which is that you can link it to the Elemnt app and any route you create is automatically synced, although not sure if that could cause some phone storage issues if you have loads of routes.
Hope this helps!
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John Hale Friday 27 Jul 2018 21:01:27
As a quick answer, with the caveat that I've only used the Wahoo Elemnt Bolt for a couple of weeks:
- Plot a route here on plotaroute.com
- Check that it has the directions you need on the cue sheet
- Export as a GPX
- Email the GPX to yourself / upload to Google drive / Onedrive / Dropbox etc
- Open the GPX using the Elemnt app on your phone
- Load to Elemnt
- Ride with directions!
Worked for me :)
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Mi Mo Monday 30 Jul 2018 19:03:51
I have been using my Bolt for ~10 routes now, planned with plotaroute. When downloading the route make sure NOT to tick the option to add turn warning. If turn warnings are enabled, the Bolt will warn you before every turn twice! Reducing course point limit also doesn't seem needed.
You just need to download the tcs file to your phone, open it with the Elemnt app, and choose select route. If your Bolt is not connected yet to your phone, you may have to sync routes in the Bolt's route menu.
