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Home
Two independent home layouts — Home 1 and Home 2 — each stacking three rows of your choice (app shortcuts, GPS dashboard, trip info, favorite locations and more). Tap the Home button to cycle between them. Notifications, Weather and All Apps drop in as overlays on top.
- Layouts
- Home 1 & Home 2 — both fully configurable
- Rows per Home
- 3 stacked slots (Top / Middle / Bottom)
- Available Row Types
- 7 + Hidden
- Switch Homes
- Home button tap, or Back / Locations on remote
- Responsive
- Portrait & Landscape
Overview
The Home section displays whichever of your two home layouts is currently active. Each home is a stack of three rows, and you choose what each row shows from a fixed catalogue of row types — app shortcuts, GPS dashboard, trip info, favorite locations, and so on.
Screenshot — /assets/img/dmdnext/home_overview.png
Full Home section (portrait preferred) showing the three stacked rows of the active home. Add overlay labels for each row.
Top Row
First slot in the stack. Pick any of the available row types.
Middle Row
Second slot in the stack. Independent of the other rows.
Bottom Row
Third slot in the stack. At least one row must remain visible — you cannot hide all three.
Each home stores its own row choices, so swapping homes is the fastest way to switch your entire dashboard layout in one tap.
Home 1 & Home 2
DMD Next ships with two homes by default. They are not the same screen with toggleable widgets — they are two completely independent layouts, each persisted separately. Use one for "around town" (shortcuts, media) and the other for "riding" (GPS, trip stats), or any split that suits you.
Home 1
The default home on first launch. Out of the box: App Shortcuts on top, GPS Dashboard in the middle, and Useful Indicators at the bottom.
Home 2
A second layout focused on saved places & ride stats. Out of the box: Favorite Locations on top, GPS Dashboard in the middle, and Trip Info at the bottom.
Switching Between Homes
There are two one-tap ways to swap between Home 1 and Home 2 without leaving the Home section:
Tap the Home Button
In the bottom menu, when you are already on the Home section, tapping the Home button again toggles between Home 1 and Home 2. (Tapping it from another section just navigates you to whichever home was last active — no toggle.)
Back / Locations Remote Button
If you have a remote controller paired (DMD or generic), the button mapped to Back / Locations also toggles Home 1 ↔ Home 2 while you are on the Home section. Lets you swap homes without taking a hand off the bars.
Home Number Flash
When you swap, a small "1" or "2" badge briefly appears on the Home icon for about one second to confirm which home you just landed on. The badge auto-hides after the flash, so the icon stays clean the rest of the time.
Screenshot — /assets/img/dmdnext/home_number_flash.png
Close-up of the Home button in the bottom menu showing the "2" badge flashed briefly after a toggle. Optional: a side-by-side with the badge hidden (1 second later).
Available Row Types
Each row in a home can be set to one of the following types. The same type can only appear once across the three rows of a single home — if you pick a type that is already in another row, the previous row collapses to Hidden automatically (one row per type, two homes give you up to 14 different row instances).
App Shortcuts
A grid of favorite app launchers. Tap an empty slot to pick an app; long-press a shortcut to remove or replace it.
Favorite Locations
Quick-distance tiles to your saved HUB locations. Tap a tile to start navigation to that location; long-press to clear the slot.
Media Player
Mirrors whichever Android media app is currently active (Spotify, YouTube Music, etc.) — album art, title / artist, and play / next controls.
Useful Indicators
Composite tile with weather, altitude, trip distance, and a notification count. Tap each value to jump to its detail view.
GPS Dashboard
Live compass, pitch / roll gauges, altitude, GPS time, and accuracy. Tap to expand into the full-screen GPS detail view.
Trip Info
Distance, total time, travel time, and stop time for the current trip. Times advance even without a GPS fix while the trip is running.
Odometer
Total mileage plus Trip A and Trip B counters. Each trip can be reset, paused, and switched independently.
Hidden
Collapses the row out of the layout. The remaining rows expand to fill the space. At least one row must stay visible.
Default Layouts
On first launch (and any time you reset settings) the two homes start with the following defaults:
| Top Row | Middle Row | Bottom Row | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home 1 | App Shortcuts | GPS Dashboard | Useful Indicators |
| Home 2 | Favorite Locations | GPS Dashboard | Trip Info |
Configuring Home Layout
Each home has its own Home Layout settings panel. To open it, tap the gear icon in the Home Section Menu (Section 3 of the bottom menu) while the home you want to configure is active.
Screenshot — /assets/img/dmdnext/home_layout_settings.png
The Home Layout settings panel open with the title showing "Home 1 Layout" or "Home 2 Layout", three accordion sections (Top / Middle / Bottom), one expanded with the row-type list visible.
How It Works
- The panel title says "Home 1 Layout" or "Home 2 Layout" — whichever home you're currently on.
- Three accordion sections, one per slot. Tap a section to expand its row-type options.
- Tap a row type to set it. The list closes, and the home view rebuilds immediately with the new row.
- Switching homes mid-edit is fine — the panel detects the swap, retitles itself, and re-loads the rows for the now-active home.
Duplicate Picks Auto-Hide the Previous Row
If you pick a row type that's already in another slot of the same home, that other slot is automatically set to Hidden. So selecting "App Shortcuts" for the Middle Row when it was already in the Top Row reads as "App Shortcuts moved from Top to Middle, Top freed up" — no surprise empty rows.
Notifications, Weather & All Apps
Notifications, the Weather forecast, and the full installed-apps list are overlay panels — they open on top of whichever home is active rather than replacing it. So you can pop open Weather, glance at the forecast, and dismiss it without losing your place on Home 2's GPS dashboard.
Notifications
Your Android system notifications, listed for glance-friendly reading. A red badge on the Home button shows the unread count when you're not currently on Home.
Weather
Detailed forecast for your current GPS location. Temperature follows your Localization setting (Celsius / Fahrenheit).
All Apps
Every installed Android app on the device. Tap any app to launch it — DMD Next stays in the task stack so you can return at any time.
How to Open Each Overlay
- Touch: tap the dedicated button in the Home Section Menu (Section 3) — bell for Notifications, cloud for Weather, grid for All Apps.
- Top status bar (landscape): tap the weather icon to open the Weather overlay directly.
- Remote controller (Map Follow Toggle): see the next section — the MFT button cycles through Trip / Notifications / Weather as overlays.
Map Follow Toggle Cycle (Remote)
While on the Home section, the remote-controller button mapped to Map Follow Toggle cycles through a stack of overlays on top of the active home. This gives a remote-only rider one button that walks through the most useful at-a-glance views without taking a hand off the bars.
| State | Indicator Color | What's On Screen |
|---|---|---|
| Home Only | Blue | The active home (Home 1 or Home 2). No overlay. |
| Trip | Magenta | The Trip View opens with current trip stats and start / pause / reset / switch A↔B controls. |
| Notifications | Green | Notifications overlay (closes the Trip view). |
| Weather | Yellow | Weather forecast overlay. |
Trip View
The Trip view is a popup that slides in from the right and shows your current trip's stats with three control buttons: Start / Pause, Reset, and Switch Trip A↔B. It's reachable in two ways:
Touch — Indicators Trip Column
If a row is set to Useful Indicators, tap the trip-distance column on that row to open the Trip view.
Remote — Map Follow Toggle
Press Map Follow Toggle once from Home Only. The Trip view opens with no button focused; the next directional press engages focus on the Start / Pause button.
Remote Cursor
When the Trip view is open via remote, the three buttons gain a 3-state cursor:
- No focus — the Trip view just opened. Map Follow Toggle does nothing yet, so a stray press doesn't fire an action.
- Pan / joystick / zoom engages focus and highlights the first button (Start / Pause). Subsequent presses cycle through the three buttons.
- Press Map Follow Toggle to confirm the highlighted button.
- Press Back / Locations once to drop focus (back to no-focus state). Press it again with no focus to close the Trip view.
Trip Times Advance Without GPS
Total time, travel time, and stop time tick on a 1 Hz wall-clock timer while the trip is active. Time advances even when the rider is indoors with no GPS fix or standing still — time elapsed is attributed to either travel or stop time based on the most recent known motion state.
Reset Trip Confirmation
Tapping Reset opens a "Reset Trip?" confirmation dialog with No / Yes buttons. Pan / joystick / zoom toggles between No and Yes; Map Follow Toggle confirms; Back / Locations dismisses as if you tapped No.