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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). Drag the dividers to trade home space against the map, or bring both homes on screen at once. When riding, switch to the full-screen minimal mode — a clean car-cluster view of speed, trip and your devices. Notifications, Weather and All Apps drop in as overlays on top.
- Layouts
- Home 1 and Home 2, or both at once via the strip divider — all fully configurable
- Rows per Home
- 3 slots (Top / Middle / Bottom), always filled
- Available Row Types
- 16
- Where They Live
- Home 1 is the main panel; Home 2 is the strip over the map (0–3 rows, or all three beside Home 1)
- View Modes
- Rows + map, or full-screen minimal mode — home toolbar button, or Back / Locations on a remote
- Home / Map Split
- Two draggable dividers — 1-3 rows against the map, plus 0-3 of the other home over it
- 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.
The Home section — three stacked rows (here Favorite Locations, Media Player and GPS Dashboard).
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. Always configured — whether it is on screen is set by the divider, not here.
Each home stores its own row choices, so swapping homes is the fastest way to switch your entire dashboard layout in one tap.
Shortcut: long-press any row on the Home screen and Home Settings opens with that row’s selection already expanded. Rows of the other home shown over the map do the same — the homes swap first, so the one you are editing is the one on screen. Cells that have their own long-press action, such as app-shortcut slots, keep it.
Home 1 & Home 2
DMD2 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. You can also put both on screen at once, side by side, in place of the map.
There are two ways to work with the pair, and you choose which in Home Settings — the Home 1 / Home 2 button switch at the top of the panel. The choice is saved per profile, and switching between them never disturbs your row setup or your divider positions.
Dividers default
Home 1 always owns the main panel. Home 2 lives as a strip over the map: drag its divider to show none, one, two or all three of its rows — at the top stop the two homes sit side by side. The panels never trade places; Home Settings edits either home in place.
Home 1 / Home 2 button
One home at a time, filling the panel — the way DMD2 worked before the dividers, brought back by rider request. There are no dividers in this mode; instead a round 1 / 2 button sits on the edge of the home rows, half over the map, and shows the home a tap will take you to. The Home button in the bottom menu switches too: tap it once to get to Home, then each further tap takes you to the next home. The remote’s up and down switch homes as well.
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, Media Player in the middle, and Trip Info at the bottom.
Home 1 + Home 2 together
The strip divider at its top stop shows both homes side by side — Home 1's three rows and Home 2's three rows — and gives up the map to make room; every position in between is a divider stop too. Home 1 is always the main panel (left in landscape, top in portrait) and Home 2 always the strip. Notifications, Weather and All Apps still open over the second card, so they land on top of Home 2.
One row type, one card. Each row is a single live widget, so a type set on both homes can only be drawn once. When both are on screen the home in the main panel keeps it and the other's slot says so (“Media Player is shown in Home 1”) — give that slot a different type and both cards fill.
Editing Home 1 and Home 2
Nothing moves when you edit: Home 1 stays in the main panel and Home 2 in the strip, and Home Settings changes whichever of the two you point it at. Two ways to pick:
Long-press a Row
A long-press on any row — in the main panel or in the strip — opens Home Settings for that row's home, with that row's selection expanded. The row updates in place as you pick.
The 1 / 2 Badge in Home Settings
With Home Settings open, tap the 1 / 2 badge in the panel header to switch which home the panel edits. Home 2's changes show in the strip — drag its divider up if the strip is closed.
Full-screen Minimal Mode
A clean car-cluster view of the Home section. It fills everything below the status bar — the bottom menu included — with a big speed ring in the middle and a handful of cards around it. There is nothing to configure: it shows what you already have, and hides what you don't.
Landscape on a unit without devices — trip left, speed ring with altitude and heading in the middle, weather right.
Portrait — altitude and heading sit inside the speed card, either side of the ring.
Entering and Leaving
- The full-screen button (four corner brackets) in the Home toolbar toggles it.
- On a remote controller, the button mapped to Back / Locations toggles it while you are on Home.
- The Exit full screen pill at the bottom of the view takes you back to the rows.
- The mode is remembered per profile: leave the app in it and you come back to it; visit another section and it is waiting when you return to Home.
Always There
- Speed — the ring fills towards 200 km/h and the number follows the speed-limit colour ramp (orange near the posted limit, red over it), with the regulatory limit sign under the ring.
- Altitude and the cardinal heading (N, NE, E… plus degrees), as on the GPS Dashboard row.
- Map instead of the ring (landscape) — the small button in the corner of the speed card swaps the ring for a live map window; the speed moves to a compact card under it, next to altitude. When the right-hand column has two cards or fewer, the speed card takes the full width under the map and altitude and heading move to that column. Tap the button again for the ring; on a remote controller, up or down swaps it too while you are in this mode. Remembered per profile. The map follows the Home section's rules: no overlay cards or zoom buttons, just the map with its follow and group buttons.
- Trip — distance, riding time, total time and stopped time of the active trip. A Reset button in the card’s header zeroes the trip, exactly like the Fuel card’s.
- Weather — when a forecast is available: temperature and conditions, today's high and low, humidity.
- Now playing — only while something is actually playing.
One Card per Device
Whatever is added in the Devices section and delivering data gets its own card:
- TPMS — a tile per tyre with a reading in the last 15 minutes: pressure, temperature and the sensor's battery (red pressure on a low-pressure alarm).
- Fuel Level — range left and the tank fraction, with the same red refill (reset-to-full) button as the row.
- OBD2 or CAN cable — the sensors chosen in the Home OBD2 row's slots (vehicle speed is left out, the ring already shows it).
- BMW Sync Box — gear, RPM, coolant, ambient, throttle and tyre pressures while the box is talking.
Smart Layout
Cards balance themselves across the two sides of the ring, and a card with nothing to show simply disappears while the rest share the space. A unit without devices puts trip on one side and weather on the other and gives the ring more room; a bike with TPMS, fuel and OBD2 fills the right side with them. Media starting or a device coming alive re-balances the view on the spot.
Sizing Home vs Map
Two divider handles set how the Home section and the map share the screen. Both snap to fixed positions rather than resizing freely, so they are easy to hit on the move. After about ten seconds they dim to a short grey bar in the same spot — still there to be found, but not sitting over your map all ride. Tap the bar and the handle comes back; it dims again after a few seconds without a touch, and it shows in full whenever you come back to the plain Home screen.
The main divider — your home against the map
Sits on the seam between the home rows and the map. In landscape drag it left and right, in portrait up and down:
| Position | What you get |
|---|---|
| 1 row | Your Top Row only, as a tall narrow card, with the map taking the rest of the screen. |
| 2 rows | Top and Middle Row side by side as two tall cards, map alongside. |
| 3 rows | All three rows full width, stacked, sharing the screen evenly with the map. This is as far as it goes — bringing the second home in is the strip divider's job. |
The strip divider — the other home over the map
A second handle sits along the top edge of the map. Pull it down and the other home's rows slide in above the map, which shrinks to fit. In portrait both handles are always available — the top rows and the bottom rows are adjusted independently, with the map in the middle. In landscape the strip handle only appears once the main divider is at the even 3 rows position, and the main divider steps aside as soon as the first strip row appears — only one handle is live at a time there — coming back when you close the strip again:
| Position | What you get |
|---|---|
| Top edge | Full map. This is where it starts. |
| One notch down | The other home's Top Row, with the map below it. |
| Two notches | Its Top and Middle Rows, map below. |
| Bottom edge | All three of its rows — both homes on screen, no map. The handle stays put down there, so a pull back up brings the map in again. |
Where you leave both handles is remembered per rider profile, so the screen comes back the way you left it on the next launch. Pulling the strip all the way down is the same state the Home button's third tap gives you. Sliding the main divider back below the even split tucks the strip away and brings it back, as you left it, when you return.
Available Row Types
Each row in a home can be set to one of the following types. All three slots are always filled — how many you actually see is up to the divider, not the row settings. The same type can only appear once per home: pick a type that is already in another slot and the two rows simply swap, so nothing goes blank.
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.
Profile Switcher
An avatar strip of your rider profiles — tap one to make it active, tap an empty slot to create, long-press to edit. See Profiles.
OBD2 Sensors
Live engine data — RPM, coolant, voltage and more — from a paired OBD2 adapter. Its three gauge cells are tap-to-reassign: tap a cell to pick which sensor it shows.
TPMS
Live tyre pressure and temperature from paired TPMS sensors, with low-pressure alerts.
Power Box
Switch your DMD Power Box outputs — auxiliary lights, heated gear and other accessories — straight from Home. The header shows Idle, C2 and the loaded profile: tap Idle to toggle idle detection, tap the profile to load USR, Profile 1 or Profile 2 (set them up in Devices).
Fuel Level
Remaining range from your tank, based on your fuel settings.
Action Cameras
Record start / stop and battery level for your paired action cameras.
Last Notifications
Your three most recent phone notifications, at a glance.
Weather Details
Current conditions with high / low and detailed weather for your location.
Speedometer
Your speed in big digits, with the posted speed limit roundel to its left and the speed camera warning — icon plus a live distance countdown — to its right. The digits follow the same colour rule as the speedometer in the bottom bar: white while you are clear, amber as you approach the limit, red once past it. Underneath runs a band that normally names the road you are on; when you are close to or over a known limit it becomes a bar showing your speed against that limit, and with neither a warning nor a road name it falls back to that bar as a plain speed gauge, so the band is never blank. Unlike the bottom-bar speedometer, this row always shows the limit and camera slots — greyed out when there is nothing to report — so the layout never jumps around while you ride. While this row is on screen the bottom bar drops its own limit sign and camera icon, so the same warning is never shown to you twice at once.
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 | Media Player | Trip Info |
Configuring Home Layout
Each home has its own Home Layout settings panel. To open it, tap the Home Settings button (the stacked-rows icon) in the Home Section Menu (Section 3 of the bottom menu). It opens on whichever home is active, and a numbered circle in its header switches to the other one without leaving the panel.
Where to find it — the Home Settings button sits in Section 3 (far right of the bottom menu, just before the Quick Menu arrow) whenever Home is the active section.
The Home Layout panel — one accordion per slot; expand a slot and tap a row type from the list to set it. The circled number in the header is the home you're editing.
How It Works
- Home 1 / Home 2 button — the switch at the top of the panel chooses how you move between the two homes: leave it off for the dividers, or turn it on to show one home at a time with a round 1 / 2 button on the edge of the rows (and the remote’s up / down). Saved per profile; your divider positions are kept either way, so you can try one mode and go back.
- A circle in the header reads "1" or "2" — the home you're editing. Tap it to swap to the other home's layout; the home behind the panel switches with it, so you can always see what you're changing.
- 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, whether from the header circle or the Home button — the panel re-loads the rows for the now-active home.
Duplicate Picks Swap the Two Rows
If you pick a row type that's already in another slot of the same home, the two slots swap. 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, and whatever was in the Middle took the Top" — all three rows stay filled, 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. Swipe entries away individually with each row's ×, or hit Clear All in the title bar to dismiss everything at once.
The Mute switch beside it silences notifications while you ride: flip it on and choose which types stay visible — app notifications, calls and SMS from this device, and the same three from a connected iPhone or Phone Link phone. Muted types disappear completely (no list entry, popup, screen flash or badge count) but nothing is deleted — switch Mute off and everything is back. Tap the Mute label any time to change your selection.
To keep particular apps out for good, switch them off in Global Settings → Notifications — that choice holds whether Mute is on or off.
Weather
Detailed forecast for your current GPS location. Temperature follows your Localization setting (Celsius / Fahrenheit).
Weather needs a license — without one the Home weather row isn't shown, the status-bar reading stays blank, and opening the overlay offers the subscription instead. See Free vs. Licensed.
All Apps
Every installed Android app on the device. Tap any app to launch it — DMD2 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.
Home Section Menu (Bottom Menu, Section 3)
When the Home section is active, Section 3 of the bottom menu shows the following buttons:
Section 3 with Home active — Notifications (with unread badge), Weather, All Apps, Full Screen (the four-bracket icon), and the Quick Menu arrow-up.
| Icon | Button | What It Does |
|---|---|---|
| Notifications | Opens the notifications overlay on top of the active home. | |
| Weather | Opens the weather forecast overlay. | |
| All Apps | Opens the full installed-apps list. | |
| Full Screen | Toggles the full-screen minimal mode — the car-cluster view — on and off. (The Home Layout panel lives in the unified Settings chooser: Quick Menu → Settings, or long-press any row.) | |
| Quick Menu | Opens the Quick Menu overlay — Profile, Settings, Keep Background, and Shutdown. See Global Settings & Profiles. |
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 a few ways:
Tap the speedo area in the centre of the bottom menu to open (or close) the Trip view — the fastest way in, and it works from Map, Home and HUB.
Touch — Tap the Speedo
The quickest way: tap the speedo area in the centre of the bottom menu. Works from Map, Home and HUB; tap it again to close the Trip view.
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 in the Trip view 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. The Reset Current Trip row in the Remote Controller Menu is the exception — it resets on the spot, since a confirmation dialog isn't something you can answer at speed.
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