Copilot

[Wellington]

The answer is no, your iPad has no GPS device, nor will any MiFi that I know of, so how are you going to get a GPS signal for Copilot to give your position on it's maps ?

I’d assumed that position could be tracked by mobile data. Or passed on. Or something. Apparently not! It works off WiFi, I didn’t know how different Mifi was. Anyway, no matter. I shall reconsider.

 

[Two on Tour]

I think you will find that it appears to work on your home broadband WiFi because the IP address will give a basic location and maybe you have programmed in your home location into Copilot.

Try this link to see if home broadband can be located via your IP address.

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[Pausim]

As far as I know mifi provides no more than tethering.

 

[Stonemags76]

I’d assumed that position could be tracked by mobile data. Or passed on. Or something. Apparently not! It works off WiFi, I didn’t know how different Mifi was. Anyway, no matter. I shall reconsider.

Wont work with MiFi as others have said. Can you put copilot on your phone, or is it too small? i use CoPilot on my iPhone in the car, and its fine for me. Worth testing it before the trial runs out!

 

[Wellington]

To use Copilot on an iPad with no SIM/GPS, one option is to use a Garmin GPS receiver that sends position date to the iPad over Bluetooth. We have been using it this way for a few years and it works fine.

The Garmin receiver makes a big hole in your wallet though...

Pity the phone can’t blue tooth it. I’ll give it a go on my phone, but most maps don’t work very well on phones imho.

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[Reallyretired]

Chuck your iphone in the bin and get an android tablet, they all have gps even the cheap Chinese ones.

 

[ericroy]

Pity the phone can’t blue tooth it. I’ll give it a go on my phone, but most maps don’t work very well on phones imho.

I agree.

It appears that pretty much most mobile phones have both a GPS receiver and Bluetooth built in. So why isn’t there an App that will send the current GPS location over Bluetooth every 60 seconds?

I did start doing the research to build such an App for myself, but decided that life was too short...

 

[funflair]

I agree.

It appears that pretty much most mobile phones have both a GPS receiver and Bluetooth built in. So why isn’t there an App that will send the current GPS location over Bluetooth every 60 seconds?

I did start doing the research to build such an App for myself, but decided that life was too short...

Well for a start every 60 seconds would be no use at all, it needs to be basically seamless GPS tracking, and why bother anyway when a phone runs sat-nav software perfectly well or alternative devices with GPS included are as cheap as chips.

Martin

 

[funflair]

Pity the phone can’t blue tooth it. I’ll give it a go on my phone, but most maps don’t work very well on phones imho.

I have had sat-nav on phones for the past 15 years in fact I have used nothing else, I think the first was an early HTC smart phone with a separate GPS device sync'd via bluetooth and a dodgy copy of TomTom, after that I went ligit and purchased TomTom for iPhone and have then been using CoPilot for about 6 years.

Martin

 

[Wellington]

Chuck your iphone in the bin and get an android tablet, they all have gps even the cheap Chinese ones.

Who do you phone when they don’t work, though?

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[Two on Tour]

Who do you phone when they don’t work, though?

But that's the thing, they do work and very well. The last 3 Chinese smartphones we have bought have been purchased in the UK through very reliable companies. 2 were bought from CPC and Yvette's present one from Ebuyer. These companies also sell the Chinese branded tablets.

https://cpc.farnell.com/prestigio/psp5553duoblue/muze-f5-lte-5-5-dual-sim-smartphone/dp/TE08263

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[Reallyretired]

The only phone I have ever had that failed to work was an Iphone