Spyder 10.25" Display Models, Firmware V 5.1.0, Android and iPhone BRP Go! Connection for Maps

[mecsw500]

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.

 

[racoon]

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.

I did wonder if the route planning was any good, but it sounds like there is no offline route planning you can download and share like you can with the Google Maps App.

 

[mecsw500]

Yes, I found the user interface actually on the bike was better than the app on the phone as it included use of the buttons on the left cluster for certain actions.

I’m going to look into it more, it might be because I don’t have enough patience to figure out how it works exactly. I’ll play around with it a bit and see if I can figure things like offline maps as that would be a necessary feature for me out and about in the more remote parts of Utah and Nevada where there is no cell coverage.

 

[racoon]

Some time with Google suggests that BRP GO! supports the following GPS applications:

Sygic
REVER
Genius Maps

Sygic and REVER both appear to support GPX files, while Genius Maps does not.
That means you can plot a route using a desktop mapping application and then export the route to a GPX file and import it into BRP GO!

I attended the Maggie Valley Spyder Adventures event in 2025, and they had posted a bunch of rides around the area, and most of them had a GPX file you could download.

The Maggie Valley event was hosted by Value Accessories (https://www.valueaccessories.net), the same company sponsoring the SE Ohio Spyder Rally later this month. I checked the site for this year's event and they have posted GPX files for most of the routes.

 

[McClendons]

Some time with Google suggests that BRP GO! supports the following GPS applications:

Sygic
REVER
Genius Maps

Sygic and REVER both appear to support GPX files, while Genius Maps does not.
That means you can plot a route using a desktop mapping application and then export the route to a GPX file and import it into BRP GO!

I attended the Maggie Valley Spyder Adventures event in 2025, and they had posted a bunch of rides around the area, and most of them had a GPX file you could download.

The Maggie Valley event was hosted by Value Accessories (https://www.valueaccessories.net), the same company sponsoring the SE Ohio Spyder Rally later this month. I checked the site for this year's event and they have posted GPX files for most of the routes.

The new BRPGo app appears to be completely different than the the pre 2020 system version that worked with Sygic, Genius, etc. The new version seems to have an integrated/embedded navigation app, and does not give a choice of using Sygic etc (I have Sygic on my phone from the old days). In working through the app, I can't find any way to "change out" the version of the navigation app that is integrated, there are very few menu choices available. The old version easily allowed alternate mapping systems as Google indicated, but of course does not work on 2024+ bikes

Hope I am wrong, and a software update is already nearing release, but right now, there is no way to use a real Nav app that pulls in GPX or supports online route planning.

 

[Jetfixer]

The new app uses Mapbox. If you tap on the Mapbox icon on the nav map screen, you get a box with 3 options, Mapbox, Open Street Map, and Improve this map. The fine print in the installation instructions recommends a 6 inch high quality usb data cable. Not sure how a longer one would affect the operation. Also, I don't see any way to get spoken directions using this system, but I don't currently have my phone paired to the bike, just my Cardo and my Innovv N1 pro.

 

[racoon]

A quick Google search found the Mapbox website, which does have some information about using GPX files, but there appear to be a lot of restrictions and limitations about what exactly Mapbox can do with a GPX file.

I'll stick to CarPlay, since I know it works, and I can easily import full GPX files.

 

[spyderladyf3t]

will I get a notification when the update comes through to my 25 F3T or do I have to check it on the screen?

 

[mecsw500]

You’ll have to check for it when you are connected with WiFi.

I use my home WiFi but a WiFi hotspot on your phone might work allowing it to effectively download over a cellular connection.

 

[mecsw500]

The new BRPGo app appears to be completely different than the the pre 2020 system version that worked with Sygic, Genius, etc. The new version seems to have an integrated/embedded navigation app, and does not give a choice of using Sygic etc (I have Sygic on my phone from the old days). In working through the app, I can't find any way to "change out" the version of the navigation app that is integrated, there are very few menu choices available. The old version easily allowed alternate mapping systems as Google indicated, but of course does not work on 2024+ bikes

Hope I am wrong, and a software update is already nearing release, but right now, there is no way to use a real Nav app that pulls in GPX or supports online route planning.

Yes this appears to be just the BRP Go! maps app in a more simplified form. You don’t get the whole BRP Go! functionality of the prior to 2024 display systems.