Originally Posted by
HobbesOnTour
Thanks, Bob.
I'm a big fan of Osmand - it's been my emergency navigator for years. Take it out, see where I am, put in my destination and off I go! The only problem is that I either use it on a tablet (preferred option) or my phone, and neither is terribly practical for the times that I want to use it - typically foul weather, off-road, passing through a city or a combination of those.
Since I got the Wahoo, I'll take the gpx generated by Osmand, load it in the Wahoo app and then on to the Elemnt. I'm touring in Europe and there's hardly ever an issue with a phone/data signal. However, I'll be going further afield soon and would like to solve the issue.so as not to be dependant on wifi/data access.
Worst case scenario, I'll just use OSmand, but I'd prefer to be using the Elemnt.
I've been in touch with HooToo and am waiting a response to some questions. Finding a bricks'n'morter shop in NL that has one is difficult.
Thanks for all your help
I just looked at the HooToo nano. There wre
a lot of similar products out. When I used to travel for business I carried something similar to connect to the hotel Ethernet and give me secure WiFi. So anything like that should work - i just searched amazon for “travel router” and found a number of them including HooToo’s.
Then in I’m thinking about this, I’m. It sure why you could t set your phone up as a hotspot. That also creates a local WiFi network. If the Element is logged into this network and so is your phone or tablet, then it should be the same as if you used the hootoo device. Or, you could set up your phone as a hotspot and then connect the tablet and ELEMNT to the created network and it should be exactly what the hootoo nano was doing. make sense?
if that worked you wouldn’t need her another device. Be worth a try.
j.