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What Is DMD2
Understanding what is the DMD2 app, all the different app sections, each section price and what is the purpose of each of the sections!
João Pereira
Dashboard + Navigation
DMD2 is an Android app that can be run as a regular app or as your default home launcher.
It is aimed to transform any Android device into a dashboard for adventure vehicles, our focus is Adventure and Off-Road navigation and the map section of the app is where we dedicate more development time.
The whole purpose of it is simplicity, minimize the required user interactions for the functions you need the most while riding, avoid swipes or gestures that are not practical while driving, specially on a motorcycle while wearing gloves. We use simple dialogs and big buttons.
To add to the easy of use while riding, DMD2 is built from the ground to perfectly integrate handlebar controllers, enabling you to control most features from your handlebar!
DMD2 also integrates a series of other accessories besides the remote controllers:
OBD2 Dongles for getting data from your ECU
TPMS sensors to monitor tyre pressure and temperature
PowerBox to remote control any electrical accessory
Made by riders for riders!
Home View
A highly configurable dashboard, where you can setup each section with different widgets, either DMD2 widgets or external widgets. Here you can concentrate all the relevant information you need.
It can display information from all the different app views, GPS and trip values, OBD2 sensors, app shortcuts, media player, map and much more.
In Landscape you get a total of 9 slots to setup different widgets and we are always adding new widgets with new information and functionality.
Price: Free App Section
Map View
A map screen optimized for adventure and off-road, includes topographic maps and many specialized tools. Our map view is one of the best GPX navigation systems in the market.
Offline maps with turn by turn navigation.
Online layers for Weather and Satellite view.
Many GPX tools like loading points of interest along the tracks.
GPX Recorder and Location Manager to save and manage your locations.
GPX Real-time statistics along the track.
Google Places search and off-line POI search.
With overlay widgets to display data from GPS / Trip / TPMS / OBD.
And much, much more...
Price: Free App Section
Optional subscription for online service:
15.00€ + Tax / 6 month
or 25.00€ + Tax / 1 year (subscription)
Roadbook View
Roadbook is a common practice for adventure and off-road events. Our digital roadbook allows you to load pdf files, setup 3 instrument panels with any value and control it all from the handlebar.
Classical style Roadbook.
Allows you to save and load sessions which preserve the state of the roadbook in case you want to resume it later.
Allows viewing the map as an overlayed mini-map which can be useful if you also load a GPX track with the roadbook path.
When loading both the PDF and GPX you can get real-time information about distance and heading for the next waypoint.
Price: Free App Section
OBD View
Connect your device to your vehicle with a Bluetooth dongle and get real-time data from your ECU. The OBD view allows you to select from a series of OBD sensors to get a beautiful dashboard with your vehicle information.
It will also allow you to check ECU errors and reset or ignore them.
The available sensors are RPM, Coolant Temperature, Oil Temperature, Voltage, Speed, Throttle Position, Fuel Level, Fuel Immediate Consumption, Spark Advance, Intake Temperature/Air Flow/Pressure, Air - Fuel Ratio.
Please notice not all sensors are available for all vehicles, you will need to test them to see which ones are available or not.
Price: Free App Section
Apps View
Easily access all your device apps, add your favorites in the top for faster access, includes hide / how shortcut filter and ordering options.
The filtering options allows you to show or hide app shortcuts, this allows you to set it up in a way that it will only show the apps that are relevant to you when you ride.
Tap and hold on any of the apps to quickly uninstall them or hide them, its that easy.
Price: Free App Section
Map Subscription
For DMD device owners this is not required, for other users who install our app from the Google Play Store on non-DMD devices, they can still get the map subscription to get access to the following features:
Satellite Online map layer
Weather: Temperature, Rain, Wind online map layer
Hillshading Online map layer
Country specific extra maps: US Topo / Lantmateriet Topo / Geoscience Australia Topo / Kartverket / ZM50 Czech / IGN France Topo
Fire alerts - Notification and map icon and areas with active fires
Speed Cameras - Warnings + map icons
Location Search - Address search with Google Places API (same as Google Maps)
Group Ride functionality - create a riding group with your friends and view everyone in the map in real-time
Global emergency services alerts - Weather / Catastrophes / Emergency Services Broadcasts
Why DMD2
Just like you, we are a team of adventure and off-road riders. For years we have been going on all sorts of adventures where navigation has become a central piece.
We wanted to use the Android operating system due to its big offer of apps, apps like Google Maps and Waze for road navigation, Google Drive for quick access to files among different platforms, WhatsApp for quick group chat and share, Spotify for listening to music, and many others for the many tasks that we might need while riding. But we always felt like there was a central app missing that would easily transform the device into a easy-to-use solution while riding.
That is the objective of the DMD2 app, a navigation solution that goes beyond a map, a full dashboard and a toolbox for your adventures.
Challenge
Transforming an Android powered device into an easy to use navigation device, well integrated with your vehicle with all the information concentrated in one app.
Solution
To get everything we wanted from a navigation device we developed our own app, the DMD2 app, which incorporates all our needs and ideas from all our adventure and off-road riding.
Group Manager
Did you know you can create groups with your friends and view everyone on the map while riding? The Group Manager feature in DMD2 is a great tool for those who ride with friends! It also allows you to send help requests and will notify if someone gets disconnected or stops.
GPX is King!
While riding on a GPX track or route, you will get real-time information, along the track, about the progress, distance and heading for next waypoint, distance to up to 3 types of Points of Interest (which will be shown on the map along the track). DMD2 will also look ahead and tell you the distance and angle for the next curve or even extract turn-by-turn instruction on a track line.
DMD2 Media by our users
Check out some of the media from our users.
We currently have over 200.000 users and it should be easy to find content about our products in social networks or on YouTube.
How would you use DMD2 - On your adventure motorcycle, 4x4, SSV, overlander?
DMD2 Feature List
Home Dashboard:
Load up to 9 widgets!
View small minimap, trip statistics, app shortcuts and media player
View data from the many GPS or OBD source indicators
View a list of notifications from your device or from a pocket phone (mirror)
Load standard Android Widgets from other apps
Control and view info from accessories like our Power Box or TPMS sensors
Map View:
Full world coverage for downloadable (offline) topographic maps
Road and Off-Road route calculation with in-app Route Planner
Route Planner with multi route point, POI suggestions, waypoints and straight line or routed support
Road Fast, Road Fun and Off-Road route profiles
Easy navigation with either loaded GPX files or in-app planned routes
Automatic route-back calculation/recalculation
Voice instructions
Easily manage loaded GPX files (show / hide / invert / manage tracks - routes and waypoints)
Quickly adjust GPX line colors, sizes, transparency and much more
Get real-time GPX track and route progress
GPX Track next curve information and turn-by-turn attempt
Automatic load Points-of-Interest along your loaded GPX tracks and route and view distances for the next two for each type
Get alerts while following tracks or routes if you deviate from path or are going in the wrong direction
Overlay widgets over the map with info from GPS or OBD sensors
Record GPX files of your rides
Create groups with your friends with the Group Ride functionality and view everyone on the map, share group GPX file, trigger "Help Me" and much more
Search for locations offline, search for addresses using the Google Places API, insert coordinates
Add extra map layers like hillshading and satellite view
Overlay special weather map layers like Temperature / Rain / Wind
Country specific extra online map layers: US Topo / Lantmateriet Topo / Geoscience Australia Topo / Kartverket / ZM50 Czech / IGN France Topo
Fire alerts - Notification and map icon and areas with active fires
Speed Cameras - Warnings + map icons
Global emergency services alerts - Weather / Catastrophes / Emergency Services Broadcasts
Long press anywhere on the map to view a location details (including coordinates), save the location, share it, search for POIs around it or start a navigation to it
Auto Zoom and Tilt and different follow location modes
Others:
Remote controller support and key setup per app section
Beautiful OBD2 sensors view where you can view all your vehicle data in a dashboard style view
PDF Roadbook app section
Apps Section with shortcuts for all your device installed apps
Create full app backups and save them to the cloud, easily and quickly restore them
User profiles, up to 6 profiles to use the app on different vehicles, each profiles includes the whole scope of settings
Light and Dark color themes
Screen orientation locker to prevent orientation changes while riding
Screen touch lock to prevent screen touches while riding in the rain
Can be setup as default home launcher