The Remote Controller Menu
The panel you drive from the handlebars. One long press brings up every action worth reaching at speed — grouped into colour-coded families, ordered how you like them, and reachable without taking a hand off the bars or looking for a button.
- Open It
- Long-press Button 2 on a paired remote
- Close It
- Long-press again, or pick Close Menu
- Works In
- Map, Home, Devices and HUB — not Roadbook
- Needs
- A physical DMD remote — not a Generic one
- Customise
- Menu Settings, the last row of the menu
- Saved
- Per rider profile
Opening & Closing
Long-press Button 2 on a paired handlebar remote to open the menu. Long-press it again to close it, or select Close Menu at the bottom of the list. There is no title bar: at riding speed the panel is the family rail and the list, and nothing else.
The menu open on the Map section — the family rail down the left, family headings with their entry counts, and the selected row (Auto Zoom) filled with its family colour.
A Physical Remote Only
The menu belongs to the DMD Remote Controller hardware — Remote 1–4, the BMW Sync Box and the SilverFox H1 / C1. A Generic Remote (a Bluetooth keyboard or HID controller) cannot open it, even with a key mapped, because it has no long-press Cancel function to map.
Over Any Section — Except Roadbook
It opens over whichever section you happen to be in — Map, Home, Devices or HUB. The Roadbook is the exception by design: it has its own remote controller settings, and while you are in it your buttons drive the roadbook itself — paging, trip and chrono — rather than the app around it. Leave the Roadbook and the menu works again.
How Much of the Screen It Takes
The menu is always the same size, whatever section you opened it from — you learn the shape of the list once and it never moves.
| Orientation | What you see |
|---|---|
| Landscape | The menu takes the right-hand side. On Map it sits beside the map, a little under half the screen. In Home, Devices and HUB the section and the menu take half each and the map steps aside for the duration — keeping all three would leave the map a strip too narrow to read anything off, which is worth less than the width it costs. The map comes straight back when you close the menu. |
| Portrait | The menu takes over the lower half of the screen with the map above it, whatever section you came from. Portrait only ever stacks two panels, and the map is what is worth having above the menu while moving; the section's own content returns when you close it. |
The Eight Families
Entries are grouped into eight families. A colour rail down the left shows every family at once and lights the one you are in, and each row carries its family's colour on its icon and leading edge. The selected row grows, fills with the family colour and shows its live value large, so you can find your place at a glance instead of reading the list.
| Family | What lives there |
|---|---|
| Safety | I Need Help / I'm OK, View Active Riding Group, Speed Warning, and the fire / no-ride overlays for whichever country module applies where you are |
| Navigation | Finish Navigation, Change Routing Profile, Invert Direction, Skip Next Point, Nav Voice |
| Devices | One row per paired action camera, Record All Cameras, BMW Sensor Details — anything belonging to hardware you paired in Devices |
| Save | GPX Recorder, New Track, Add Waypoint, Quick Save Location — your own ride data |
| Map | Map Theme, Auto Zoom, Tilt Map, Satellite, Precipitation, Hillshading, Offline Content, Distance Circles |
| Media | Play / Pause, Next Song |
| Trip | Switch Trip, Reset Current Trip — the Trip A / Trip B counters from the Home odometer |
| System | App Theme, Screen Touch Lock, Go to Device Home, BMW Sensor Details |
App Theme switches the app between Light and Dark from the bars — it is the interface theme, not the map's (that is Map Theme, in Map Settings). If you are on one of the Auto modes, one press pins the opposite of whatever you are currently looking at.
The country overlays in Safety are the same toggles as the country card in Quick Actions — Portugal's no-ride areas and fire danger by concelho, Catalunya's closures and danger by municipality, Victoria's danger by district. They follow exactly the same rule: they appear only when you are inside that country with its module switched on, so you see your country's rows and nobody else's. That also holds in Menu Settings, which lists the rest of the conditional rows whatever your situation, but not another country's.
The Trip family — Switch Trip says what the press will do (A → B) and Reset Current Trip says which trip it will zero (A). Above it, the Devices family listing two paired cameras.
The Trip family drives the same Trip A / Trip B counters as the Trip view on Home, without leaving the map. Both rows act on whichever trip is currently selected, so there is no A row and B row to pick between — the row's value tells you which one you are about to touch. Switch Trip reads A → B or B → A, so it says what the press will do; Reset Current Trip reads A or B, the trip it will zero. Reset takes effect immediately — there is no confirmation step, because you cannot answer one at speed. Switch Trip is deliberately listed first: a left / right jump lands on a family's first row, and that should not be the one that clears your counter.
View Active Riding Group opens your active group's detail page straight over the map — the same view as the group shortcut button on the map, with your buddies, their status and the group's tabs. It appears only while you are in an active group and sharing your location into it, which is exactly when there is anything to look at; it sits directly under I Need Help so the whole group context is in one place. See Riding Groups.
Driving the Menu
| Button | In the menu |
|---|---|
| Map Pan Up / Down — or joystick up / down | Move to the previous / next entry. The list wraps at both ends, so the bottom is one press from the top. |
| Map Pan Left / Right — or joystick left / right | Jump straight to the previous / next family. Also wraps. |
| Button 1 (Map Follow Toggle) | Fire the selected entry. |
| Map Zoom In / Out | Same as down / up, for remotes that are easier to reach that way. |
The touchscreen works too, on the same contract: the first tap on a row selects it so you can see what you are about to fire, and a second tap confirms.
Rows That Come and Go
Rows that only make sense sometimes appear only then — the camera rows when a camera is paired, the navigation rows while you are actually navigating, the two group rows while you are sharing into a group. A family with nothing to show is left out entirely, so the menu is never padded with dead sections.
That is why the menu is shorter on a quiet ride than it is mid-navigation with two cameras rolling — nothing has moved, there is simply less to show.
Menu Settings
The last row of the menu opens Menu Settings, which shows the same grouped structure with every family and every entry listed — including the ones that are switched off or not currently applicable.
Menu Settings — family headings as full-width colour bands with their entries indented underneath, each row carrying ▲ / ▼ and an ON toggle. Note the navigation rows are listed even though nothing is being navigated right now, so they can be pre-ordered.
- Turn anything off. Confirm toggles whatever is selected. On a family header that switches off the whole family; on an entry, just that entry. Off entries keep their place, so turning one back on puts it where you left it.
- Reorder anything. Left / right moves the selected row within its scope — a family header moves the whole family up or down the menu, an entry moves within its family. On the touchscreen use the ▲ / ▼ buttons on the row.
- Family headings carry their family's colour as a full-width band, with their entries indented underneath, so the two levels never read as one list.
- Menu Settings and Close Menu can't be hidden — they are the way back.
- Everything here is saved per rider profile, so each profile can carry its own menu.
Upgrading from an earlier version keeps any ordering you had already set: your existing sequence carries over inside each family until you move something.
Without Opening the Menu
Every entry in the menu can also be bound to a double tap on a remote button, so the action fires with no menu at all. Set it up per remote in Devices → the remote's settings; a toast confirms which action fired and the state it flipped to.
Continue Reading
Pairing the hardware, and where the menu's entries lead.
Remotes & Controllers Map Trip View Riding Groups