Bosch Nyon importing GPX routes....

[oceanskipper]

I've got a new Bosch Nyon and every time I import a gpx route into the eBike Connect portal from Komoot it says "Could not map your route to existing roads. Your route will be visible on Nyon without turn by turn directions."

I have tried making sure that the route is on roads only and not on any paths, cycleways, etc etc and it still gives the same error and sure eough the rout displays on the Nyon but it won't give any distance information or turn by turn instructions. I've even tried converting an already ridden route into a Nyon route and it still does not give me any turn by turn info. The only time it will give me turn by turn info is if I put a destination into the Nyon and let it calculate its own route.

Has anyone else seen this and/or got a fix for it? It's a massive PITA!

TIA

 

[oceanskipper]

So I've done a bit more testing and basically if you create any kind of route on Komoot that includes a waypoint then export it to the eBike Connect portal the Nyon won't give turn by turn navigation. It only works if you put a start point and a destination and let it work out a direct route from A to B. If you do that then export it it will offer turn by turn navigation. Completely useless if you want to navigate a planned ride along a certain route.

 

[Silverfox Baz]

So I've done a bit more testing and basically if you create any kind of route on Komoot that includes a waypoint then export it to the eBike Connect portal the Nyon won't give turn by turn navigation. It only works if you put a start point and a destination and let it work out a direct route from A to B. If you do that then export it it will offer turn by turn navigation. Completely useless if you want to navigate a planned ride along a certain route.

I’ve found the same thing recently. I’m sure I have had turn by turn directions with Komoot routes containing waypoints in the past though. Has there been an update that changed this or am I imagining it?

 

[oceanskipper]

It’s never worked for me but I have only had the Nyon for 2 months.

 

[markloch]

That would explain it - it's been driving me nuts trying to figure out what I need to do to get turn-by-turn back.

@oceanskipper By 'export to ebike-connect' you mean the automatic push from komoot to bosch, not a manual import/export, right?

 

[Expidia]

I have a new Nyon and have not had time to start importing routes yet, as I was at the end of my riding season when I upgraded from the Boach Smart Phone Hub. But you might just call Bosch custmer service and ask them about your issue. I have found them to have great customer service and are very helpful there the few times I've contacted them.
There are also Nyon user forums you can locate with Google.

 

[oceanskipper]

@markloch Correct - I have Komoot synched to e-bike connect and when I create routes in Komoot they automatically sync to the Nyon.

 

[oceanskipper]

Has anyone found a solution to this? Considering how integrated Bosch and Komoot are supposed to be it’s hugely annoying when trying to create a route. I rode in an event yesterday that published a downloadable gpx file which I imported into Komoot and it worked perfectly - I am going to ask them what they used to create the route.

 

[Silverfox Baz]

On the weekend I created a route in Komoot with 5 waypoints and found that the Nyon now gives Turn by Turn guidance with the waypoints. It also reroutes if you go off the route but I found that it doesn't reroute to the next waypoint but to the end point.

 

[Expidia]

On the weekend I created a route in Komoot with 5 waypoints and found that the Nyon now gives Turn by Turn guidance with the waypoints. It also reroutes if you go off the route but I found that it doesn't reroute to the next waypoint but to the end point.

Some of the Youtube reviews have been out for a number of years on the Nyon They still complain about no voice turn by turn guidence when you import routes. Hopefully as you pointed out, a Nyon update may have finally corrected this.

 

[oceanskipper]

On the weekend I created a route in Komoot with 5 waypoints and found that the Nyon now gives Turn by Turn guidance with the waypoints. It also reroutes if you go off the route but I found that it doesn't reroute to the next waypoint but to the end point.

I think you might have just been lucky that the mapping corresponded. I imported a gpx route from a Velo 29 Sportive a couple of weeks ago and the turn by turn, distance to destination etc all worked perfectly, like you I was hopeful it had been fixed. Yesterday I did a second route from them and it only had the route this time. It's basically rubbish still (I have asked them for detail of how they planned the routes in case there is something useful to be learned frm that so I'll report back). The distance (even when wheel circumference is adjusted) and altitude are way off when recording a ride too, which makes the system a bit crap really, but that's another thread....!

I wonder if anyone has had more success planning a route using a planner other than Komoot...?

 

[oceanskipper]

I’ve emailed Bosch a couple of gpx files to look at. The one that worked and also one of the many that don’t! I looked at the files in a txt editor and I couldn’t see any obvious differences. I even tried copying the header from the working one over a non working file but it still had no turn by turn….

 

[Ark]

Does nyon let you save a ride as a route? and then have it work like you want?
if it does you could see what file format it uses then make your routes on the ridewithgps website, then you can save it as any number of different file formats.

 

[oceanskipper]

It lets you export previously ridden routes as gpx or tcx or to Strava but if you do that and reimport them they still don’t work. It also has a convert to route function whereby you can in theory ride a previous route without exporting and reimporting but that doesn’t work either - it just gives a warning saying could not map the route to existing roads as below…