Same observations, though I’ve a couple of things to add:
If you send the navigation request when the Ather is not in an area with network coverage, it waits till the network is back and then starts. At this stage, you’re likely to have moved some distance from your initial location. This takes time to calibrate again, since the original route sent was based on different coordinates.
The Ather seems to be very confused about the orientation. If you park on a road, it cannot figure out which side you’re on, thus not knowing which direction to route it. This leads to cases where you end up rerouting after a minute or two.
I’m now getting indifferent about the whole “smart” experience that has been promised.
RANT.
No doubt purely from the ride perspective I have little to complain about. Except in the regen calibration, which like @rajeshkav says, I too feel it can start earlier, and also function at slower speeds. I feel in rush hour traffic in the city one can almost eliminate using the brakes, since seldom does one need to come to a full stop, and yet since we also often are slower than 20kmph, that constant braking is wasting energy. But even so, with current calibration I am able to squeeze 75-80km range in the sport mode.
Coming to the “smart” ness or lack there of;
the screen brightness thing is now annoying me more than ever. Some late night trips I’ve had when the street lights were gone (on New BEL road for example) were agonising since the screen is unforgivingly blinding. The first bikes were deployed in September 2018. How is this still an unresolved issue. I just can’t understand how they prioritise cosmetic UI elements like the red aura over this. Do people at Ather ride their bikes at all?
between the high brightness and the navigation issues pointed out above by @abhishek.balaji2, @samitbanerji and @Abhishek i.e.; getting locations pushed more than once, resetting of routes, orientation confused for a good part of the beginning of the ride (I feel that’s the most important time navigation needs to function, if you’re getting out of a remote place you’re at) the console is useless now apart from a rough gauge of speed. The Odo is still not displayed during movement, we’re yet to get a charge to charge trip meter, or distance travelled since last charge. What is the bright screen for? I’ll be sticking a darkening film on it soon since I’m actually not interacting much with the console much, and the brightness is the biggest pain.
what is the app for now? Only for checking charge? The navigation stutters, no forum, no offline map to finding charging points. The trip history function is dysfunctional. Bizarrely, the Odo reading syncs instantly; but individual trips seem to have their own agenda and timing.
Just demonstrate what most here already know-
Here are 2 pics taken at 9:18pm
A) Console shows the latest trip completed at 9:18pm, 4.1km, Odometer is at 1341.8km.
How can syncing Odometer reading have next to no lag, but everything else either lags, or in case you shut the bike down as one would do overnight, never happen??
@Ather.Team@Shreyas will do well to give us a timeline (even if a slightly pessimistic one) on when these issues will be fixed. Please commit.
Screen brightness. This is a riding hazard now.
Trip history in App, MANUAL reset trip meters on console and app, Charge to charge distance covered count.
Navigation issues.
merge app, forum and charging grid map that works even with incognito mode on.
The frequency with which I visit the forum has already drastically fallen now in the last few weeks. I see no reason to keep posting/reading about the same problems six months from now. So without these resolutions coming in a timely form I can’t see myself being an enthusiastic user of the bike for a little while more before selling it off when there’s a better alternative around.
With this issue what I’ve observed is that whenever I’m using Mobile data the ride statistics don’t get updated. Only the Odometer gets updated. But the moment my phone gets connected to WIFI at home I get the data dumped to the phone.
I know this makes no technical sense but this is what I’ve observed in my case.
Today, for the first time, my morning ride to office did not show up. All the other rides are there including evening drive back home!
@karthikr1995 may have to do with internet speed. My odo gets updated, but the ride listing takes its own sweet time. I notice the delay in other apps like Twitter and Instagram too.
Still have not received my RC. It’s been over 60 days since the registration happened. KA51 is it just me waiting that long? I can see the RC on the mParivahan app however.
