mecsw500
Active member
I updated the firmware on my 2026 Sea to Sky today by using the Wi-Fi connection option and my home Wi-Fi. I think the update applies to all of our Spyders with the 10.25" color display at least, at least that is what is implied.
The update was quick and easy, though beware, it says it has updated then the screen goes blank for 20 seconds before installing various packages on subsequent screens. The blacked out screen is unnerving but with patience it finishes the install.
You will be pleased, or horrified depending upon your point of view, that you can now use Android or an iPhone with the BRP Go! maps app remotely displaying on your Spyder with the 10.25" display.
After updating the firmware and restarting the bike, you have to swap the default navigation system from CarPlay to BRP Go! using the Preferences menu item and the Navigation section from the main bike menu. You can switch back and forth from BRP Go! to CarPlay as to which one displays on the main menu, but you have to enable one or the other. You cannot have both it seems.
You have to connect the phone by a USB data (not just power) cable from the glove box connection to the phone. I assume Android phones are USB C connectors like later iPhones. So you'll need a decent USB-A to USB-C data cable. You can route this cable by lifting the glove box out, removing the rubber bung in the bottom and threading the cable under the bodywork to come out by the steering head and then going to your phone mount. I find a 3 foot or 1 meter USB cable is sufficient for most likely installations.
I wish BRP Go! had a browser version or a Mac version of the maps app so you could set up routes on a bigger device screen. It's kind of tricky to do on a phone and the iPad version was just a small image of the iPhone app, it was not a proper port to the iPad. Perhaps Android tablet users will be luckier. That's the thing about Apple Maps or Google Maps it's that they are universally available across Web Browsers, and iPads or iPhones apps making it easy to plan routes with ease on larger screen devices and then loading them down and following them on the iPad or iPhone.
Oh well, the infamous BRP Go! lives again. I'm going to play with it a bit, but I find it has a highly confusing user interface.
The update was quick and easy, though beware, it says it has updated then the screen goes blank for 20 seconds before installing various packages on subsequent screens. The blacked out screen is unnerving but with patience it finishes the install.
You will be pleased, or horrified depending upon your point of view, that you can now use Android or an iPhone with the BRP Go! maps app remotely displaying on your Spyder with the 10.25" display.
After updating the firmware and restarting the bike, you have to swap the default navigation system from CarPlay to BRP Go! using the Preferences menu item and the Navigation section from the main bike menu. You can switch back and forth from BRP Go! to CarPlay as to which one displays on the main menu, but you have to enable one or the other. You cannot have both it seems.
You have to connect the phone by a USB data (not just power) cable from the glove box connection to the phone. I assume Android phones are USB C connectors like later iPhones. So you'll need a decent USB-A to USB-C data cable. You can route this cable by lifting the glove box out, removing the rubber bung in the bottom and threading the cable under the bodywork to come out by the steering head and then going to your phone mount. I find a 3 foot or 1 meter USB cable is sufficient for most likely installations.
I wish BRP Go! had a browser version or a Mac version of the maps app so you could set up routes on a bigger device screen. It's kind of tricky to do on a phone and the iPad version was just a small image of the iPhone app, it was not a proper port to the iPad. Perhaps Android tablet users will be luckier. That's the thing about Apple Maps or Google Maps it's that they are universally available across Web Browsers, and iPads or iPhones apps making it easy to plan routes with ease on larger screen devices and then loading them down and following them on the iPad or iPhone.
Oh well, the infamous BRP Go! lives again. I'm going to play with it a bit, but I find it has a highly confusing user interface.
