Review: BRP Go! is going...going...GONE!!

[shardt]

BRP Go is not made by BRP but a software company that makes these connect products for other motorcycles as well. BRP does not have anything to do with the way the apps work on the bike but rather the application developers that do the interfacing with BRP Go. Other issues are related how the smart phones work. If you do some research, you will see that most bike manufactures are plagued with the same type of issues.

1. You only need BRP Go if you display the apps in the dash; music only, you just need to be connected via Bluetooth.
2. Make sure your dash has the latest firmware and you have the latest BRP Go app.
3. BRP Go app has to be allowed to be on top or the active app all the time.
4. Your phones lock screen cannot be active while using BRP Go, so set your phone to not lock while plugged in to power.
5. Make sure to go in to the battery manager and set BRP Go and the apps you use with it to never sleep.
6. Your USB port on the phone needs to be set to do data, normally default setting.
7. The USB cable between the phone and bike has to be a data cable.
8. To use BRP Go both the USB cable needs to be connected and Bluetooth connected.
9. If you turn off the bike, be sure to unlock your phone when you start the bike so BRP Go can reconnect to the bike.

 

[Fatcycledaddy]

If you got it to connect with an Android and BRP Go and Connect, how did you do it.

I cannot. I get USB malfunction when plugging in phone to the USB adapter.:banghead:

It is weird, you can't connect your Bluetooth first and then just plug in the usb and have it work. You must follow the instructions on the phone given by BRPGO and pair the phone through the app. If you pair the bluetooth of the phone to the spyder without going through the app and not doing it in the order it requests, it will not work.
I just got a new phone and tried to pair with the settings of the old phone that transfered to the new one. It would not work. I had to remove the pairing and start through the steps through BRP go as it requested.
When I follow the steps, it works every time.

 

[Fatcycledaddy]

BRP Go is not made by BRP but a software company that makes these connect products for other motorcycles as well. BRP does not have anything to do with the way the apps work on the bike but rather the application developers that do the interfacing with BRP Go. Other issues are related how the smart phones work. If you do some research, you will see that most bike manufactures are plagued with the same type of issues.

1. You only need BRP Go if you display the apps in the dash; music only, you just need to be connected via Bluetooth.
2. Make sure your dash has the latest firmware and you have the latest BRP Go app.
3. BRP Go app has to be allowed to be on top or the active app all the time.
4. Your phones lock screen cannot be active while using BRP Go, so set your phone to not lock while plugged in to power.
5. Make sure to go in to the battery manager and set BRP Go and the apps you use with it to never sleep.
6. Your USB port on the phone needs to be set to do data, normally default setting.
7. The USB cable between the phone and bike has to be a data cable.
8. To use BRP Go both the USB cable needs to be connected and Bluetooth connected.
9. If you turn off the bike, be sure to unlock your phone when you start the bike so BRP Go can reconnect to the bike.

All GREAT information and correct.
You can set "smart lock" on your phone so that when it is close to your Spyder and BRP GO, it will unlock the screen for you automatically. Then when you turn the bike off and restart it, no screen swipe is needed.
I use the same thing for my smart watch, truck, and bluetooth speakers at home.

 

[askitee]

When I look back at the things BRP still don't get right from an engineering perspective,

• Two speedos that can't concurr on the speed (yes I know it can be adjusted but, jeez just damn well fix it BRP)
• A clock that cant keep time. I've seen a potato powered clock keep better time.
• Sprockets... nuff said
• Park brake locking on
• Radio reception that is worse than my toy crystal radio I had as a kid, I could listen to my local station at my grandparents 50kms away, my Spyder can't.
• their choice of tyres for the product....
• Water ingress into places like the top box.
• .....

I shudder at the thought of them doing any software like this. I am an I.T. contractor and like you have no desire at all to get tangled up in BRP apps. I point my clients to well written, well supported, intuative software when they need me to locate something and BRP cant do any of these.

 

[gr8Frank]

No rant here. I use it and it works great for me.

 

[Trbayth]

If BRP opened the protocol's and API's needed to communicate with the bike I'm sure independent developers could do a much better job.

But of course BRP won't do that cause it makes too much sense.

 

[Flamewinger]

If BRP opened the protocol's and API's needed to communicate with the bike I'm sure independent developers could do a much better job.

But of course BRP won't do that cause it makes too much sense.

You might want to read all the other posts as it’s mentioned that BRP didn’t create the software/firmware. It was an independent developer. The “protocols” are the same for any smartphone integration system. Motorcycle or car.

 

[SLICE]

BRP Go is not made by BRP but a software company that makes these connect products for other motorcycles as well. BRP does not have anything to do with the way the apps work on the bike but rather the application developers that do the interfacing with BRP Go. Other issues are related how the smart phones work. If you do some research, you will see that most bike manufactures are plagued with the same type of issues.

1. You only need BRP Go if you display the apps in the dash; music only, you just need to be connected via Bluetooth.
2. Make sure your dash has the latest firmware and you have the latest BRP Go app.
3. BRP Go app has to be allowed to be on top or the active app all the time.
4. Your phones lock screen cannot be active while using BRP Go, so set your phone to not lock while plugged in to power.
5. Make sure to go in to the battery manager and set BRP Go and the apps you use with it to never sleep.
6. Your USB port on the phone needs to be set to do data, normally default setting.
7. The USB cable between the phone and bike has to be a data cable.
8. To use BRP Go both the USB cable needs to be connected and Bluetooth connected.
9. If you turn off the bike, be sure to unlock your phone when you start the bike so BRP Go can reconnect to the bike.

I have a hard enough time remember it's underwear first then pants.

 

[K80Shooter]

I have a hard enough time remember it's underwear first then pants.

Do you mean that I'm supposed to wear underwear?

 

[linguine]

If BRP opened the protocol's and API's needed to communicate with the bike I'm sure independent developers could do a much better job.

But of course BRP won't do that cause it makes too much sense.

precisely, technically and logically.

 

[jcthorne]

You might want to read all the other posts as it’s mentioned that BRP didn’t create the software/firmware. It was an independent developer. The “protocols” are the same for any smartphone integration system. Motorcycle or car.

I disagree. BRP GO is an in house developed piece of garbage. Other manufactures have successfully implemented the industry standards Android Auto and Apple Car Play and they work very well indeed. Across many makes. Harley for one went this route as have most auto manufactures. BRP could have as well, they just refused to admit that Google and Apple are better at UI design than they are and forced this crappy system on us instead.

 

[Flamewinger]

It is my understanding that Bosch Global is the designer of BRP Go and also MySpin which is used in high end European cars. (Range Rover)

Triumph has https://www.triumphmotorcycles.com/motorcycles/my-triumph-connectivity-system

BMW has https://www.bmwmotorcycles.com/en/e...connectivity.html#/section-heres-how-it-works

Yes Honda and Harley as well as Indian have ACP but they’re all the same and require very similar setups to make it work. They allow certain apps to work when operation the bike.

https://www.rever.co/press-releases/press-release-two-wheeler-powersports

I’m not an engineer or ever worked in IT. Never got into computers other than to use them for work and home. I make a point of learning all I can about any device I use whether at home, in my car or on my Spyder. I found this BRP Connect system to be a bit glitchy at first but with the new BRP Go, it’s easy peasy.

I find it difficult to understand how anyone that is a computer expert would have any problems getting this to work. It’s really not that hard to figure out.

 

[MRH]

I'm NOT going to get a I Phone, when there are items called Android Auto and Apple Car Play.

Rant concluded

What makes you think this will work with an iPhone? I tried to use it when I got my 2020 RT-L and quickly gave up because it was so terrible in every respect. Just attach your phone to your Spyder and use that. This is something that never should have been released.

 

[bikerbillone]

That's what I did, wrestling with BRP Go is not in my book of patience.

 

[shakin_jake]

When I look back at the things BRP still don't get right from an engineering perspective,
[*]A clock that cant keep time. I've seen a potato powered clock keep better time.
.

~~~~WIS here (Watch Idiot Savant). I’m obsessed with automatic watches. Never cared for quartz. Current wrister Im having a love/hate relationship with is a Black Bay Heritage, its COSC cept better as Tudor aimed for -2+4. When I bought it last September, it actually kept perfect time for 3 weeks then would lose a second, that was up until a few weeks ago when either i dropped it or came in contact with some heavy magnetism. I’ll prolly send it to a watchmaker I know and let him dial it back in, see if I cant keep it that way…

In regards to the clock on our Spyders, I’ve never set mine up, nor do I look at it. If you want to know what time it is, look at your smartphone, they’re coordinated with the atomic clocks. The current Spyder clocks will never be. Yeah so if I’m riding my Spyder and don’t want to be bothered checking my wristwatch, then I’ll make sure my phone is on in the cradle attached to the handlebar before shoving off


Best,


Jake
Reddick Fla.
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood

 

[Flamewinger]

That's what I did, wrestling with BRP Go is not in my book of patience.

Then you’ll never have smartphone integration. Whether ACP, BMW or Triumph’s TFT system or HD Connect, it all requires setting it up first before using it which is just as easy or complicated as BRP Connect.

 

[Flamewinger]

In regards to the clock on our Spyders, I’ve never set mine up, nor do I look at it. If you want to know what time it is, look at your smartphone, they’re coordinated with the atomic clocks. The current Spyder clocks will never be. Yeah so if I’m riding my Spyder and don’t want to be bothered checking my wristwatch, then I’ll make sure my phone is on in the cradle attached to the handlebar before shoving off


Best,


Jake
Reddick Fla.
It’s never too late to have a happy childhood

Not sure what weird Watch problems are like but as for the newer Spyder models, the clocks are very accurate and that all I do is change it for daylight savings.

Basically those that complain about how complicated the BRP system is are just not capable of figuring out how new technology works and like to use what they’ve taken years to learn.

 

[UtahPete]

I'm happy with my low-tech 2014 RTL until they work the bugs out of the 'advanced' technology.

 

[shakin_jake]

Not sure what weird Watch problems are like but as for the newer Spyder models, the clocks are very accurate and that all I do is change it for daylight savings......

~~~Just guessing but I would imagine (from what you’ve said), when you have your smartphone connected to BRP GO or whatever the proprietary onboard electronic wizardry is called, perhaps the clock function on the dash is being run through your smartphone, then it's coordinated with the atomic clocks

.....
Basically those that complain about how complicated the BRP system is are just not capable of figuring out how new technology works and like to use what they’ve taken years to learn.

~~~I’ll be the first to admit i know nothing about how any of the Spyder’s BRP system works. I’m a Luddite and incapable of using it. If we lived closer to one another I’d be glad to buy you a very nice meal in exchange to have you show me enough of how to use the Spyder’s electronic tech.




Best,


Jake
Reddick Fla.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while

 

[bigbadbrucie]

Just my $0.02 worth. I agree.....BRP is not perfect, but then again neither is GM. My chevy malibu does NOT keep perfect time, the AM radio does NOT extend that far. My sirius/xm radio loses signal a lot....I can see the sky, why can’t it see me? My point is NO Mfr. is perfect...they all have problems, they all have their own idiosyncrasies, so live with it, or get rid of the unit and get YOUR perfect unit (good luck with that). Myself, I love my RTS....yes there are things they could have done differently, but for the most part I can resolve the problems myself with the purchase of FARKLES (including but not limited to sway bar, auto tires, more lighting, etc).