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Warnings & Alerts
DMD2 keeps an eye on the road for you — speed limits and cameras, your own speed thresholds, upcoming turns, weather and fire hazards along the route, and straying off a track. Each warning has its own alert types and outputs, so you decide how loudly it speaks up.
- Where
- Map Settings → Warnings
- Warning Types
- Turn Instructions, Away From Track, Wrong Direction, Waypoint Proximity, Speed Limit, User Speed, Speed Cameras, Rider Reports
- Route Hazards
- Weather & wildfire along the route
- Outputs
- Speedo area, screen flash, and voice
The Warnings Panel
Open Map Settings → Warnings to set up every warning the unit can raise — the road warnings and the line-following alerts, in one list. Each one has its own on / off and its own outputs:
- Turn Instructions — voice and flash when a turn instruction is announced. Its panel also holds Dead reckoning in tunnels, which isn't a warning: it keeps your position moving along your route or track while the GPS is gone (with Snap to Road Hybrid on, along the offline map's road too).
- Away From Track — alert when you leave the line you are following: more than 20 m off for three fixes in a row (further when your GPS itself reports a poor fix), or 15 m off and riding away from it. The red distance line on the map and the speedo badge go by the same rule, and clear once you’re back within 15 m — a GPS wobble, or a GPX recorded with a poor GPS, no longer brings them up. GPX files and navigation. The red distance line has its own switch, separate from the alert.
- Wrong Direction — alert when you ride the line against its direction. GPX files and navigation: on a GPX line the notice offers to invert the track; while navigating it shows a U-turn and re-routes automatically instead.
- Waypoint Proximity — alert when approaching a waypoint on the active GPX, with a trigger distance. GPX files only — a navigation has no waypoints.
- Speed Limit — alerts when you exceed the road's speed limit.
- User Speed Warnings — two custom speed thresholds, each with its own outputs.
- Speed Cameras — alerts when approaching a speed camera.
- Rider Reports — closures and hazards other riders report: Show on Map for the pins (the same switch as the Quick Toggle) and Warn on My Route for the warning, the list on your route and Reroute to Avoid. See Rider Reports.
Speed Limit & User Speed
Speed Limit
When the map knows the road's limit, a speed-limit sign shows in the speedo area and your speed number turns orange as you near the limit and red once you're over it.
User Speed
Set two of your own speed thresholds — for example a comfortable cruising cap and a hard limit — each firing its own alert, independent of the posted limit.
Speed Cameras
As you approach a known speed camera, a blinking camera icon appears in the right of the speedo area with a distance countdown. Cameras can come from the map data and are also baked into some routes, so the alert works offline.
Having the app is not the problem there — using its camera warnings while you ride may be. If you choose to keep speed cameras on in those countries too, go to Map Settings → Warnings → Speed Cameras and, under Restricted countries, turn on Enable speed cameras also in countries where they might be against the law. It is off by default and asks twice: first a warning that camera alerts may be illegal where you ride, then whether you accept the responsibility — only that second yes turns it on. From then on cameras work in every country, so you are not asked again at each border. The switch belongs to the device, not to a rider profile: it applies to every profile on that unit and never travels to another device with a profile. Turning it off takes one tap.
Route & Track Hazards
Weather Along Route
Check the forecast at points along an active route (Navigation Options → Weather / Warnings On Route) so bad weather doesn't catch you out.
The per-stop forecast is part of the paid weather feature. The panel itself opens either way — unlicensed it shows the country-module warnings, including where you are. See Free vs. Licensed.
Fire Alerts
DMD2 can flag active wildfire hazards near your route — useful adventure-riding awareness where fires are a risk.
The worldwide fire feed is part of the paid tier. The country fire modules — Portugal, Catalunya, NSW and Victoria — are free for everyone.
Rider Reports
Closures and hazards other riders reported — a locked gate, a washed-out track, oil on a bend — listed under Rider Reports on This Route in the same panel, in the order you will meet them. Free for everyone. See Rider Reports.
Off-Track & Wrong-Direction
While following a GPX line or a navigation, DMD2 warns if you drift off the line (clearly off it: more than 20 m for a few fixes, or 15 m and riding away) or ride it the wrong way, and on a GPX file if you come within range of a waypoint. The off-track line on the map always points to the closest point of the line — even if you rejoin somewhere behind where you left — and it has its own switch: Map Settings → Warnings → Away From Track → On The Map → Distance Line, separate from the alert itself, so you can keep one without the other. On a GPX line the wrong-direction prompt’s Invert flips the line’s direction on the spot, and works on the riding group’s shared GPX too; while navigating there is no prompt — the card shows a U-turn and the route is recalculated. All three are set up under The Warnings Panel above.
Warnings Where You Are
Most warnings on this page are about the road ahead — they need a route or a track to look along. But the country modules also check the ground you are actually standing on, every half minute, whether or not anything is navigating. That is usually how you are riding: no route, just riding.
In mainland Portugal, with Portugal Avisos on, that check has its own view: Warnings Where You Are. Two ways in:
- Tap the notification. When a no-ride zone or a laranja / vermelho aviso pops up while you ride, it is kept in your notifications list — tapping it opens this view on the spot.
- Open it yourself from Navigation Options → Weather / Warnings On Route. With no route and no active track, that is what you get.
The sections are the ones you already know from the route list, worded for the here and now — No-ride zone where you are (APPS), APPS zone where you are — check locally, Fire danger where you are (IPMA) and Weather warnings where you are (IPMA). That wording is deliberate: a legal closure you are inside is a different thing from one 80 km up the road, and the two must never be mistaken for each other. If there is genuinely nothing, it says so plainly — “Nothing to report where you are right now.”
It updates itself
There is no refresh button on this view, and it doesn’t need one: the position check runs about every 30 seconds and the list repaints as you ride. Leave it open crossing a boundary and you will watch a zone appear or clear. (The along-the-route list does have a refresh button, because that one re-fetches a forecast.)
If you do have a route, none of this is lost — the same block moves to the top of the Weather / Warnings On Route panel, above the along-the-route sections, so what is under your wheels is read first. This view is free like the rest of the country modules. It currently covers Portugal only: Catalunya’s Pla Alfa closures still pop up as you enter one, but they are listed only when you have a route or track loaded.
Other Alerts
Tyre Pressure (TPMS)
If you have DMD TPMS sensors paired, a low-pressure or deflation alarm surfaces right in the speedo area with the affected tyre's pressure — a mechanical-safety alert that takes priority over informational ones.
Weather Warnings — Portugal (IPMA)
When you ride in mainland Portugal with Portugal Avisos switched on, DMD2 reads the official IPMA weather warnings (avisos) for the districts you pass through — wind, rain, thunderstorms, hot and cold weather, coastal conditions.
- They are listed in Navigation Options → Weather / Warnings On Route, under Weather warnings on route (IPMA) — or under Weather warnings where you are (IPMA) when you have no route — each with a triangle badge in the aviso's own colour: amarelo, laranja or vermelho. No license needed for any of it.
- IPMA publishes several days ahead, so a warning that has not started yet is shown with the time it begins (for example “… · from Sun 09:00”). Anything without that note is in effect right now.
- While you ride, a pop-up appears when you are in an area under a laranja or vermelho aviso. Amarelo warnings are not popped up — they are routine in a Portuguese summer — but they are always in the panel list.
- Anything that pops up is also kept in your notifications list, so a warning you rode past is still there to read at the next stop. Tap it to jump straight to the full list — along your route if one is active, otherwise where you are. These stay inside DMD2 — nothing is sent to your device's own notification shade, and nothing appears while the app is closed.
Turn the feed on or off with Weather warnings (IPMA) in Map Settings → Country Specific Modules → Portugal Avisos. These are weather warnings only: they say nothing about whether riding is permitted — that is the separate no-ride (APPS) section in the same panel.
One detail if you ride unlicensed: you still get all of it — the map pin, the on-screen pop-up, the notification and the Weather / Warnings On Route list that names the zones, because a pin or a pop-up only has room for “this one and 3 more”. What a license adds inside that panel is the per-stop forecast and the worldwide fire list. See Free vs. Licensed.
How Warnings Reach You
Every warning can use one or more outputs, so you tune how insistent each one is:
Speedo Area
Signs, camera countdowns and alert badges appear right in the speedo area, in your line of sight. Which of them may appear there is also gathered under Settings → Menu Speedo, if you would rather set them all in one place.
Screen Flash
An LED-style pulse across the speedo cavity flashes in the warning's colour — impossible to miss at a glance.
Voice
A spoken alert, so you can keep your eyes on the road. Balance it with your music in Settings → Audio.