crashes when driving into tunnel

[maexxx]

Description: when driving in live mode ABRP closes whenever I drive into a tunnel

Type: App 4.0.12

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Replication Steps:

1. Planned a route from Vienna to St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee
2. Drove
3. Between Traunsee and Wolfgangsee there are a lot of short tunnels in the road. When I entered a tunnel, ABRP closed. Maybe that's because I might have lost GPS data.
4. I was unable to start ABRP again. It immediately closed again.
5. Took about 10 minutes or so until I could start ABRP again. Next tunnel: bang, it closed again.

 

 

It's really difficult to rely on ABRP when driving if it continues to close unexpectedly.

I feel the issue is related to GPS connectivity, because sometimes it puts me in a completely wrong location for a short while, then puts me back on the road where I am. Is this causing the issues?

[Jason-ABRP]

That's definitely not supposed to happen! We'll get it fixed.

[Bo-ABRP]

Which platform was this on, iOS, Android or web?

[maexxx]

This was on Android 10 on a OnePlus 7. (OxygenOS 10.3.3.GM57AA)

I resorted to the Web version which at least did not close, but showed a few times a "there's no working plan" message. I really think the GPS sometimes puts me into a weird position when it has no reception - because I have seen it put me into a different valley or somewhere completely off (Norway, all of a sudden...) - which then causes a number of issues. It recovers after a minute or so, but by then ABRP has stopped, or displayed error messages etc.

Sorry to not being able to pinpoint this more precisely.

[Bo-ABRP]

We did fix a crash on Android driving mode yesterday and it is available on Play Store now. Please let us know if that solves your problem!

[maexxx]

@Bo (ABRP) It's looking good. Today, I drove a stretch of road with a tunnel where it used to crash and this time it did not. It just looked like it reloaded when it lost GPS but then restarted and recalculated after the tunnel when GPS came back. Much better!

Side note though: when it reloads / recalculates, it also shifts the consumption chart area down again. I often swipe the chart area up a little to keep the full chart visible. Per default, the chart is a little bit too far down and its lower 20% or so are not visible.

[Bo-ABRP]

Do you have your phone connected to the car with Android Auto? Then the phone theme (dark/light) changes with the car (which typically happens in a tunnel) and the app will restart. If so, we could probably avoid this restart too.

[maexxx]

@Bo (ABRP) Yes, exactly. I have the phone on Android Auto and use Google Maps on the car infotainment display (Hyundai Ioniq Electric). And I run ABRP on the phone itself. I send the next destination to Google Maps (this works brilliantly now) and then follow the Maps navigation while at the same time watching the charge chart in ABRP. (SOC data is supplied through EVNotify.)

I figured this may have to do with day/night changes but what's strange is that after the restart ABRP is still using a bright background, so it seems it does not honor the change to night layout?

 

[Ou Boet]

I have noticed that when entering a tunnel ABRP will loose it's GPS fix and note that "you're not on the route" and the pointer does not advance (obviously).  Is there a way for ABRP to obtain secondary speed information through the the OBD port to avoid this.  That way it doesn't have to recalculate once it reestablishes a GPS fix when you exit.

Once other thing, because I get to use HOV lanes which have me deviate off the indicated route a short distance before rejoining, ABRP thinks that I've detoured and recalculates and then recalculates again when I rejoin.  I'd like an option to delay the recalculation longer, or perhaps dismiss it if possible.

[Jason-ABRP]

You can dismiss the recalculation by tapping the countdown, and for some vehicles we do have an OBD PID which provides speed, but we don't use that to estimate where you'll be in the future, though we can certainly think about it as a future improvement.