Trip Sharing & Trip Journals

Start a share

Tap Trip Sharing in Quick Actions, beside the Recorder, or open the HUB (Quick Actions → DMD HUB) and tap its Trip Sharing tile. The start form asks for an optional title and your privacy choices, then Start Sharing creates the link.

The start form. Tap a row to cycle through its values; the toggles are remembered for next time.

Once the share is live, a red Trip Sharing button appears on the map with the number of people watching. Tap it to open the panel. The panel has four tabs — Trip, Message, Media and Place — in a rail on the left in landscape and along the bottom in portrait. The Trip tab holds the trip name (tap Edit to rename it at any time), the trip values, the link (Copy Link or Share Link to send it by message) and Pause; Finish sits at the foot of the rail and asks for a second tap.

The live panel, Trip tab. The rail on the left switches between Trip, Message, Media and Place.

Privacy options

Your location is always part of a share; that is what the page is for. Everything else is your choice, and the delay covers the pins too: a photo taken at noon shows up on the follower page at one o’clock with a one-hour delay.

Listing a ride on the HUB

By default a shared trip is private to its link: only the people you send it to can open it. If you want company, you can list the ride on the HUB website’s Live Adventures page, where every signed-in rider sees it on a map of who is out right now, filtered by continent and country, and can follow along.

The first time you list anything, the app asks you to read and accept this once; after that the switch just works. You can turn a listing off at any time and the ride leaves the page within seconds — the link you already shared keeps working.

The page only shows riders who are actually out there: after two hours without a new position — parked, out of signal, or the unit switched off — a listed ride drops off the list and the map, and it comes back as soon as you ride on. With a delay, the two hours count on the delayed clock, so the page never tells anyone you stopped before your delay would.

Listing changes nothing else: the same page, the same link, the same privacy choices. It only decides whether the ride can be found — and it switches the viewer chat on, unless you already chose for that trip.

What followers see

The link opens a page on the DMD HUB website that works on any phone or computer, without an account. It shows your avatar and name, a Live or Paused badge, your position moving along the road at your real speed a few seconds behind you, the trail you allowed, and a timeline with everything you shared. Pins appear on the map as you reach them, and the trail is drawn up to where you are, never ahead of you. Standing still is not travel: below 5 km/h the trip adds no distance, no climb and no trail, so a coffee stop never draws a scribble where the bike was parked.

• Map or Satellite — the same map the planner uses, with 3D terrain and relief. The satellite view is clean imagery with town and village names on top.
• Trail colour — followers can colour your trail by Speed, Altitude or Slope instead of Plain, with the switch above your trip values. Speed and Altitude run from light yellow where you rode slowest (or lowest), through orange, to bright red where you were fastest (or highest); the scale under the switch gives the values, in the follower’s own units. Slope uses the planner’s colours — blue downhill, green flat, yellow to red uphill — and pointing at (or tapping) the trail shows the slope there. Speed is offered only if you allowed speed. Each follower’s choice is kept in their browser.
• Right now — your current speed and altitude, while the share is live and if you allowed speed.
• Trip values — distance, total and moving time, average and top speed, climb, in the follower’s own units.
• Timeline — messages, photos, videos and places with the time and the nearest town; a place shows its category badge and description. Tapping an item zooms the map to it. Times are your local time where each moment happened; a follower in another time zone sees the zone next to the time (for example PDT).
• Photos and videos — a gallery with a full-screen viewer, previous and next. A video link shows its thumbnail with a play button, on the map and in the timeline, and plays without leaving the page.
• Relive — on a finished journal, a playback flies along the ride: the camera follows the road, each message, photo and place pops up as it is reached, and stops longer than three minutes are skipped with a “Stopped for…” card. Scrub the timeline, or move the map yourself and pick Follow rider to return.

The page keeps itself up to date while it is open. When you pause, followers see a paused badge and the position stops; when you finish, the page shows the finished journal, or a note that the trip has ended if you discarded it.

Trip GPX: the route ahead

Give the trip a Trip GPX and followers see the route you plan to ride: drawn on the map under your trail, with a flag where it ends and the distance left next to your trip values. It is optional, and you can set, change or remove it at any time during the ride.

• Choosing it — tap Trip GPX on the start form, or open the Trip tab during the ride and tap Choose GPX (Change or Remove once one is set). The list offers the route you are navigating and every route and track shown on the map; to use another file, show it on the map from GPX Files first. A second device running DMD² as a companion can set it for the unit’s trip too, from what is on its own map.
• What followers see — the route in violet, with the part you have ridden covered by your trail. A Remaining card shows the distance left with a progress bar, also when you hide your trip values. While you are away from the route it says off the route and holds the distance until you are back on it. On a finished journal the card shows how much of the route you rode.
• Loops and out-and-back rides — the distance left follows the way you ride: a loop starts at its start, and the way back of an out-and-back is never taken for the way out.
• With a delay — followers see the whole route at once (it is your plan, not your position), but the distance left is measured from where they may see you, so it stays as far behind as your delay.

The route is drawn on the trip page only: followers are not offered your GPX file to download.

Viewer chat

Followers who are signed in to the DMD HUB can write to you in a chat beside the map while you ride. Anyone with the link can read it; only HUB members can write, and everyone following sees their name. A message is up to 200 characters.

• On or off — the chat comes on by itself when you list a ride on the HUB; a ride shared only by its link starts with it off. On the unit, the start form has a Viewer chat switch under List on the HUB: it follows the listing until you touch it, and from then on your choice is kept for the next rides. While you ride, the same switch sits on the Trip tab; on the website it is on Quick add and in the journal editor in My Trip Journals. Switched off, nobody can write and followers no longer see the messages; switch it back on and they return.
• Reading and replying on the unit — the Chat tab, newest first. Tap a reply under QUICK REPLY (long-press one to change what it sends) or write your own and tap SEND; a reply that could not go out stays in the list with RETRY. Tap the QUICK REPLY heading to fold the replies away and give the messages the room; the unit remembers it. New messages show as a blue number on the Chat tab and on the map’s Trip Sharing button — never a pop-up or a sound while you ride. A phone signed in to the same account shows the same chat.
• On the website — open your trip page signed in to the HUB and pick the Chat tab. Your replies show with a Rider badge. While a follower looks at the Moments tab, a small number on the Chat tab counts new messages; there is no sound.
• The delay covers your position, not the chat — what you write is seen at once. The unit and the page both remind you when a delay is set.
• Deleting and blocking — on the unit every message has DELETE and every follower’s has BLOCK (tap twice); on the website the … button on a message offers the same. A block removes that follower’s messages from this trip and stops them writing on any of your trips. Followers can delete their own messages.
• After the ride — the chat closes when the ride ends (with a delay, once your followers have caught up). The journal keeps it as a Chat replay: in Relive, each message appears when the playback reaches the moment it was written, and Chat bubbles on the Relive bar also shows it beside you on the map. Small bars over the Relive timeline show where the chat was busiest, and a stop people wrote during is held a little longer. Outside Relive, tapping a message shows where you were when it was written.

During the ride: messages, photos, videos, places

The Message tab. Long-press a quick message to change what it sends.

The Media tab, with the photos posted so far. The video-link field sits under the photo buttons.

The Place tab: one form, both worlds.

Each tab lists what you shared of that kind, newest first, with Edit, Hide and Delete.

• Edit — the text of a message or a caption; for a place, its name, category and description. The change reaches the page within seconds.
• Hide — the item leaves the follower page, the feed and the journal’s GPX file (a hidden place is no longer one of its waypoints, a hidden photo no longer its Photo 1 or 2) but stays in your journal, tagged Hidden; Show brings it back.
• Rotate left / Rotate right — under a photo that shows sideways: now and then a camera saves a landscape shot as portrait (a tablet tilted back in its mount cannot tell which way is up). Each tap turns it a quarter turn; the trip page and the copy on the trip’s GPX file follow.
• Delete — removes it from the trip for good. A place already saved to My Locations or written into the GPX stays there.

From your phone: the companion

The unit on the bike records the trip; the phone in your pocket adds to it. Sign in with the same account and everything you post lands on the same trip, at the unit’s newest position when the phone has no fix of its own.

• DMD HUB app (iPhone) — open My Stuff → My Trips. While the unit shares, the page shows Sharing from your unit with the link, the same Message, Photo and Place composer (turn a picked photo with the arrows on its preview before you add it), and the timeline with edit, hide and delete, plus rotate left and right on a photo. You can pause and finish the unit’s trip from there, or Share from this phone instead to move the recording to the phone.
• The website — hub.dmdnavigation.com/account/profile/trips/live/ on any phone: quick messages, a photo from the camera, and a place with its category and description.
• A second DMD unit — its HUB Trip Sharing tile reads Sharing on <your other device> and opens the same companion view, with the panel’s tabs.

The companion view: the other device records, this one adds.

Places added from the web, edited from a companion.

Sharing from the iPhone

No unit on the bike today? The DMD HUB app shares a trip on its own. Open My Stuff → My Trips, or tap the share button on the map and choose Share a trip. Give it a name, pick the same privacy options, and Start sharing. The phone posts your position in the background at the unit’s cadence, the share button turns red while it runs, and Pause, Resume and Finish work as on the unit. Points queue without signal and go out later; the trip survives a restart of the app.

The map’s share button offers both kinds of sharing: your position for your riding group, and a trip for anyone with the link.

Finishing: journal or discard

Finish asks for a second tap, then offers two toggles and the choice:

Keep as Trip Journal, or Discard — and Cancel if you tapped Finish by mistake. The GPX can stay in My GPX Files either way.

• Keep as Trip Journal — the ride stays on the HUB as a journal: the full track, the timeline with photos and messages, the final values, and the GPX. The link keeps working, public or only for you.
• Discard — the trip is deleted from the server. Leave Keep the GPX in My GPX Files on to keep the track in your library anyway.
• My Trips folder — the GPX of a kept trip lands in a My Trips folder in My GPX Files and syncs to your devices like any other file. The places you saved as waypoints are in it, with their symbol and category, the first and last photo become the file’s photos, and its off-road share is filled in from the map data within minutes.

The prompt after an automatic end.

Your trips on the website

Sign in to the DMD HUB website and open My Trips under My Library. Every share is listed with its state, distance, photos and notes, and the followers it had at peak.

• Open, Copy link, Keep, Delete from the list. A trip that ended on its own shows how many days remain before it is deleted, with a Keep as journal button.
• Edit a journal: title, description, whether anyone with the link can see it or only you, whether followers may download the GPX, a fresh link if the old one got around, and the timeline — the text of a message or caption, a place’s name, category and description, hide or delete. Click the track to add a message, a photo or a video link at that spot after the ride.
• Turn a sideways photo — now and then a camera saves a landscape shot as portrait (a tablet tilted back in its mount cannot tell which way is up), and the photo shows sideways everywhere. In the journal editor, the two small buttons under the photo turn it a quarter turn left or right. The trip page, the apps and the copy on the trip’s GPX file in My Trips follow.
• Show on the HUB — its own switch in the editor, and a button on every row, deciding whether the ride is listed on the Live page. Separate from who can open the link: a public journal stays off the page until you list it.
• Quick add from a phone — while your unit shares, hub.dmdnavigation.com/account/profile/trips/live/ posts messages, photos, video links and places with their category onto the live trip, and carries the listing switch too.

My Trips in the app, reachable from the start form.

Your recorder is not affected

Trip Sharing has its own recorder and its own trip values. It never touches the GPX Recorder, the trip meter, the odometer or your recordings. You can record a ride and share it at the same time; they are independent, and pausing one does not pause the other. The journal’s GPX is the share’s own track — the only crossover is a place saved as a Waypoint while the GPX Recorder runs, which the recorder writes into its file too.

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