Originally Posted by
Peter Aawen
OK, I apologise if this is making it too simple, but it's a little difficult to tell where your actual 'lack of information' problem really is, so I'll begin by going basic. ;)
Always appreciated.
For starters, FOBO & FOBO 2 are phone based apps that can display the info from your valve stem mounted Tire Pressure Monitoring Sensors on your 'phone's screen. So you can see your Spyder's tire pressure at a glance, but you do need to have your phone mounted, with the appropriate FOBO app loaded & linked to the valve stem sensors, somewhere on the handlebars or dash where you can see it. OK so far?!?
So far, so good.
BRP Connect is the 'integration software' for the 'new digital dash' that came out with the 2018 Spyders. It allows you to link the dash thru bluetooth to any supported apps that you might have on your phone so that they will instead display on your digital dash; so you don't need to have that extra phone mount to hold your phone where you can see it. Those supported apps can be connected via bluetooth & BRP Connect to display on your dash instead of on your phone's screen.... So you can leave your phone in your pocket, but still see all the info/display etc from your various apps on the dash, and if it's all connected the way it should, you can even use the digital dash controls to manage & control those apps via the handlebar control, joystick etc. These supported apps might include things like your phone based GPS; any music/player you might have loaded onto your phone; and of course, FOBO..... Making sense still?
Making perfect sense. AND, this is the first mention that BRP Connect only works with 2018 and newer. I really should follow the advice to create a signature so I don't have to remember to mention our (HER) 2017 RT-S every time I ask a question.
The first version of FOBO was one such app, and because it was supported in BRP connect, once you linked your phone to the dash you could call up FOBO on the dash via the handlebar controls and see what your tire pressures were doing onbthe dash display. According to some sources at BRP, FOBO 2 is supposedly MEANT to be already supported similarly, but AFAIK, despite the advice from some at BRP that it IS supported, no owner has managed to get it to work YET!! :gaah:
BRP Connect is simply the proprietary name for the integration software for the new digital dash that's on the 2018 & on Spyders, so you won't see anything about it in the user manual unless you are looking into the right section on how to drive/operate the digital dash..... but then, even if you do look in the right spot, many owners (or possibly that should be MOST owners?) find that BRP Connect is nowhere near as easy to use as the manual makes out; it's not as intuitive as the common systems for android & apple used in most cars already; and there are very few apps that are supported..... so for many, BRP Connect isn't a real selling point, in fact, it's MUCH more the opposite!! But that said, there are a few, and the number is growing (slowly), who have managed to get one or two of the supported apps to actually work for them on their digital dash..... maybe not yet in the manner they'd like, or maybe not in the manner they'd expect, but the apps DO 'work' via BRP Connect and they will display some info on the dash in a helpful(??) manner!! :ohyea:
That would explain why I have not seen any mention of BRP Connect in the manual for our (HER) 2017.
How's that? Help any?? :dontknow: