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Recording a Ride
Record your ride as a GPX track — with a live stats dashboard, optional auto-record that starts itself when you move, and mid-ride tools to split tracks and drop waypoints. Every recording lands in My Recordings and syncs to your DMD HUB.
- Start It
- The red Record button in Loaded GPX Files
- States
- Idle → Recording → Paused
- Mid-Ride
- New Track, Add Waypoint, Pause / Resume
- After
- Saved to My Recordings, synced to the HUB
Starting a Recording
Open Loaded GPX Files (the GPX button in Section 3) and tap the red Record button. The recorder moves through three states — Idle, Recording and Paused — shown clearly so you always know if points are being captured.
The recorder mid-ride — live stats up top, then Pause, Finish, New Track and Add Waypoint.
Auto-Record
Turn on Auto Record (in Recorder Settings) and DMD Next starts recording on its own the moment it detects movement — so you never forget to hit record. You'll get a “Auto-recording started — movement detected” notice when it kicks in.
Live Stats
While recording, the recorder is a live dashboard of your ride:
Distance
Distance covered.
Tracks
Track segments so far.
Travel Time
Time actually moving.
Stop Time
Time stopped.
Avg Speed
Average over the ride.
Max Speed
Your top speed.
Elevation
Elevation gain.
Waypoints
Waypoints dropped.
Expand the panel for more — total duration and track points, plus live speed and altitude — so the recorder doubles as a ride readout.
Mid-Ride Controls
Without stopping the recording, you can:
Pause & Resume
Pause stops capturing points (for a long lunch stop, say) and Resume picks it back up on the same recording — without padding your track with a stationary blob.
New Track
New Track starts a fresh track segment within the same recording — handy for splitting a multi-day trip into a track per day. Pick one of the offered names (the auto-numbered Track N, or the same name stamped with the time or the date), or type your own.
Add Waypoint
Add Waypoint drops a marker at your current spot — that gate, that viewpoint, that turn you'll want to remember. It opens on Quick Picks: the waypoint types you use most, as big one-touch rows. The full symbol catalogue, the name field and the Navigation Card options are still there, folded away below.
Finish
Finish ends the recording and opens Save Recording — name it and keep it, or discard it if it wasn't worth saving.
Shortcuts & Remote Control
While a recording is running, Pause/Resume, New Track and Add Waypoint are reachable without opening the recorder panel first — and both forms can be completed start to finish from a remote controller, so you never take a hand off the bars.
In Quick Actions
A shortcut row appears right under the GPX Recorder card in Quick Actions with a pause/resume icon button plus + Track and + WPT — compact captions for New Track and Add Waypoint. The row is only there while you're recording; the icon button shows pause (orange) while recording and flips to resume while paused, and + Track steps aside while the recording is paused.
In the Remote Controller Menu
The same two actions appear near the top of the Remote Controller Menu as Recorder: New Track and Recorder: Add Waypoint — again only while a recording is running.
Pick, Pick Again, Done
Both forms use the same gesture as Quick Save Location: the first press on a row selects it, a second press on the same row commits it. Two presses from opening the form to a saved waypoint — no typing.
Place It on the Map
While the Add Waypoint form is open, a movable pin sits on the map. Tap anywhere to move it — the coordinates at the top of the form follow along, so you can mark the gate you just rode past rather than where you stopped.
Quick Picks learns from you — the waypoint types you drop most often move to the top of the list.
Background & Recovery
Records in the Background
Recording keeps running when you switch sections or send the app to the background — a recording foreground service keeps the GPS pipeline alive. See Keep Background.
Survives Shutdown
Close DMD Next completely and your recording is still there. One that was running picks itself straight back up on the next launch — the time the app was closed counts as a stop, and the track continues in a fresh segment rather than drawing a line across the gap. One you had paused comes back paused, waiting for you. Only Finish ends a recording.
Crash Recovery
If a recording is ever interrupted, DMD Next spots it on next launch — “An interrupted recording was found. Resume or discard?” — so a ride is never silently lost.
My Recordings & Sync
Finished recordings are auto-named and saved to the My Recordings folder in your GPX library, then synced to your DMD HUB account.
My Recordings — auto-named by date, each with its distance and track count, tidied into monthly folders.
Local, Remote & Synced
Each recording shows where it lives — Local (on this device), Remote (on the HUB), or Remote + Local when both. A recording made offline shows Not Synced until it uploads.
Download & Manage
Download All From Server pulls your HUB recordings onto a new device; per recording you can download or delete from server, or delete the local file. Load any onto the map to re-ride or review it.
Recorder Settings
Open Recorder Settings (from the recorder) to tune two things:
Auto Record
Enable auto-start on movement, and set Ignore If Distance Below — a threshold that stops tiny GPS jitter while you're parked from kicking off a recording or padding your track.
Recording Line
Style the live recording line as it's drawn on the map, so your in-progress track stands out from loaded ones.
Continue Reading
Back to the GPX guide, or into the detail views for the tracks you record.
GPX: Tracks, Routes & Waypoints Loaded Files & Details