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the Tripy II user`s Manual MAN0020_RevB (English

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1. altitude current speed ribbon average speed screen bearing partial odometer distance to next waypoint next way y E total odometer point direction towards next waypoint A latitude N 48 5516 number longitude bearing O 2 5478 By Speed trap direction partial next note distance to destination Using the up and down arrows you can change the border info panel selecting the one you wish to display You can choose whether or not to display each border info panel in the Activate border info option of the navigation menu see paragraph Activating and deactivating border infos The way Tripy Il navigates in the map mode is explained in paragraph 2 3 How does Tripy II navigate a Map display a Riding direction orientation When the map is displayed the right left arrow knobs allows the change of the zoom factor At the 100m 250m 500m 1km 2km and 3 km zoom factors the map Is displayed in the actual riding direction up N553 Rue de la Ville Audregnies You will find at the bottom of the screen the street and town of your current location only if you are on a road existing in the Tripy II library In the bottom left corner Tripy ll displays the partial distance to reach the next active road book waypoint When you come closer than 500m from the next waypoint the pictogram will be displayed just above the p
2. If you choose the by provider option Tripy II will display the list of suppliers sorted in alphabetical order Select the supplier and press the OK knob to see the list of road books of that supplier Once you will have found the road book you are interested in press the OK knob to select it Tripy Il offers to compute an Itinerary between your current location and the starting point of the road book If you do not choose this option Tripy II starts the navigation mode in the Compass mode to assist you reaching the starting point If you choose the option to compute an itinerary towards the starting point Tripy Il will create and display a road book to the starting point Upon reaching the starting point Tripy II will automatically switch to the selected road book M E A EP Ret LAA 3 d r p After selecting the User icon in the Road books menu Tripy II displays the list of road books and road book directories you have stored in your Tripy Il GPS To start a road book select the road book from the list and press the OK knob Like with the library road books Tripy will offer you to compute or not an Itinerary between your current location and the starting point of the road book See above paragraph If you have created road books sub directories the OK knob will allow you to navigate down into the sub directory and the Menu knob to navigate up to the parent directory To store you
3. satellites are used to compute the position 11 4 Time zone setting The GPS receiver is able to produce an accurate time This time is UCT Coordinated Universal Time This universal time does not correspond to any country specific local time For Tripy II to display the actual local time of the country where you are It is necessary to set the time zone You will easily perform the time zone setting by indicating Tripy Il what is the town nearest to your cur rent position When you access the time zone setting function Tripy ll offers to display the Nearest locations first Choose this option and press the OK knob Tripy II displays then the list of capital cities the closest to your position You will normally find in the first lines of the list the name of the capital of the country you are in Choose the capital of the country you are in and press the OK knob If you do not choose the Nearest locations first option Tripy II will display the list of continents and capital cities in alphabetical order chronized See paragraph 10 3 GPS Status Bw Before selecting the time zone make sure that your GPS receiver is correctly syn 11 5 Language setting The language setting is explained at the paragraph 3 3 Language selection The information screen displays several data pertaining mostly to the firmware and data base version as loaded into your Tripy Il Serial Number Firmw
4. A IA e lo Fit AR ae _ c Connecting to the computer d Connecting a USB memory stick e Connecting to another Tripy Il f Connection to remote buttons 3 9 Handling the batteries a Battery charging b Tips about how to handle the batteries 3 6 Connecting to the vehicle power cable 3 7 Screen contrast and back lighting settings a Contrast setting b Back lighting setting c Impact of the lighting setting on the autonomy 3 8 Mounting Tripy Il on the vehicle 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy Il and PC a Favorites b POl s c Automatic tracks d ltineraries or road books e GPX and GDP traces pa as f Monitored POI s e g Speed traps 3 10 Data transfer between Tripy Il and USB memory stick 3 11 Data transfer between two Tripy II s 3 12 Firmware version and Tripy ll update 3 13 Safe copy and Tripy ll restoration a Back up copy b Restoration of a back up copy 3 14 Access to the general RESET knob and memory card a Tripy ll general RESET b Micro SD card extraction 4 How to head for destination 4 1 Preliminary ee 30 30 31 32 zz 34 35 36 36 sof ned 38 39 41 42 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 49 50 91 2 92 5 IZ 93 93 A IA e lo Fit AR ae _ 4 2 How to head for an address a Town introduction and use of the virtual keyboard b Street introdu
5. c Automatic tracks Under the user directory you shall find the Traces directory containing a maximum of 61 files called trace0 ttr to trace 60 ttr Each file contains the automatic recording of a track you have driven Indeed as soon as it is switched On and it is synchronized Tripy ll permanently records the tracks you ride not to be confused with the road book recorder that shall manually be started and stop ped and also stores the waypoints positions in addition to the track Tripy ll closes an automatic recording when you switch the device for more than two hours When Tripy Il closes an automatic track It automatically starts the recording of a new track at the new switching On of the device las soon as GPS synchronization occurs The new track shall carry the next indice s value in the numerical sequence trace0 ttr trace1 ttr trace 60 ttr traceD ttr a s o When you communicate with Tripy II connecting Tripy Il to a PC the current track is temporarily closed and available in the user traces directory After the communication session the recording shall resume in the same track file To recover a track you may sort the user traces directory by date and time Once the track s iden tified you may copy them on your PC and open them with the RoadTracer software You may then re cord them as in a standard gpx format or in the Tripy road book format t
6. it may be useful to toggle temporarily to the map E display to easily connect to the nearby start c Compass display When you leave the itinerary Tripy II displays first the ribbon yet if you continue further away from the to be followed trace Tripy ll displays changes to the compass mode The compass points towards the next road book waypoint the one towards which you were riding be fore leaving the itinerary The waypoint number is displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen When Tripy Il is in the compass display mode the right left arrow knobs allow the display modifica tion of the targeted waypoint pictogram and straight line distance The waypoint number displayed In the bottom left corner is on a black background if it is the next waypoint you should headed for and on a white background if you have modified the targeted waypoint number by means of the left right arrow knobs If you ride a beacon type road book the compass display is permanent This special road book type is used in off road applications see paragraph 2 3 How does Tripy ll navigate e Compass display beacon itinerary If you navigate with the road book display and the ribbon or compass sud denly show up you shall immediately come to the conclusion that you are not on the programmed itinerary anymore You may the use the ribbon or compass to re connect to the next w
7. Below this partial distance Tripy Il displays the pictogram of the next waypoint and inform the pilot in such a way of the situation he will encounter when reaching the position when the partial distance is null A waypoint commonly represents a direction change but can also indicate a point of interest dan ger tourist attraction a s o On this road book type of view the pilot grasps very quickly that 10 8 km remain before the next waypoint This information is sufficient to understand that the only thing to do Is to enjoy the landscape and the riding for a good while In the upper left corner a small directional arrow continuously confirms the track general direction a few tens of meters ahead of the vehicle This little arrow called sniffer is somehow the scout explo ring the road ahead of you It looks further ahead as you ride faster Finally on the display right hand side in an area called info border Tripy ll displays different infor mation panels You may easily toggle between panels by means of a knob The various information displayed are remaining distance to destination estimated arrival time actually driven kilometers since start altitude instantaneous speed average speed bearing followed partial trip counter manually reset by the user at leisure total trip counter manually reset by the user at leisure GPS position longitude latitude compass towards the next road book
8. II GPS can only display correct information speed bearing map orientation trip master a s o when it has synchronized on the constellation and you are moving At a stand point the GPS position information is correct yet the navigation bearing map direction a s o may be false A No GPS synchronization DASHBOARD A wait before riding Visible satellites wait before riding Good GPS synchronization ready to ride 01 03 30 The GPS synchronization status is represented by a few vertical bars in stages The more bars there is the better the synchronization If no bar is displayed It means that the receiver does not capture any thing When grey bars are displayed it means that the receiver has detected some satellites but Is not yet in a position to use them to give a position Once the bars are displayed in white the receiver Is ready to operate correctly c Switching Tripy II OFF When Tripy ll is operating press the ON OFF knob and maintain it pressed until it displays a screen similar to the one below press approx 2 seconds UVUVUV TRIPY EU The device then runs the switching off procedure and continues displaying this screen for about 10 se conds The display is then completely switched off indicating that Tripy Il is properly switched off If Tripy Il batteries are completely unloaded the device Initiates by itself it shutting down procedure In this instance it is essential to charge Tripy
9. If you are brought to leave the original itinerary wait to be away from this one of at c Stop Activate automatic re calculation This point enables you either to activate or deactivate the automatic recalculation system when you leave the Itinerary d Show notes On selection of this function Tripy goes into a mode where it shows you the notes of the road book the little eye appears in the top left of the screen Using the right and left arrow buttons you can scroll forwards and backwards through the road book notes When you have not actuated the keyboard for a few seconds Tripy goes back to navigation mode and the little eye disappears e Leave the road book and return to the control panel display The Leave the road book function enables you to leave the active itinerary From then on navigation mode will display the control panel as presented below 01 02 15 When the control panel Is displayed you can activate the functions menu by pressing down the MENU button press the menu button until the list of additional functions appears The functions accessible will in this case be limited to the resetting of the odometers and the memorising of the current position While on the control panel display you can also display the map by pressing the OK button and retur ning to the control panel by pressing the OK button again f Memorise my position This function enables you to activate the recording of
10. Il as soon as possible to avoid deteriorating the batteries d Automatic switch off Tripy Il is fitted with an automatic shutdown system in order to avoid unnecessary unloading the batte ries when not in use The device shall switch off automatically if you stay at the same place for a time lapse of 30 minutes without activating any knob This time may be modified in the advanced set tings If the device is charging its batteries connected to loader or to vehicle the automatic switching off procedure is not started It will however start as soon as the batteries are completely charged You may set your Tripy Il GPS in your usual language The language setting is made under Parameters Language LANGUAGE English Francais Italiano LANGUAGE Nederlands The list of available languages is displayed as a list Move the cursor on the desired language by means of the up down arrows and press the OK knob Tripy Il indicates to you that the application should restart for the new language selection to become active Press the OK knob to acknowledge this message Tripy ll restarts in the new chosen langua ge Tripy is equipped of a single connector on its rear face This connector Is closed by a metallic cover you shall always close screw clockwise when you use the device as it ensures the connector remains wa tertight The only instance you may use the Tripy Il on your vehicle without closing
11. a a 6 How to look for a road book 6 1 Preliminary 6 2 Find aroad book in the library 6 3 Search for one of your own road books 6 4 Search a road book recently ridden 6 5 Copy a road book from a USB memory stick 7 How to record a road book scouting trip 7 1 Preliminary 7 2 Start the recording of a scouting trip 8 How to immediately ride a scouting track 9 How to use the Trip Master 9 1 Preliminary 9 2 Reset 9 3 Quick reset of the partial trip counter 9 4 Adjusting the total 10 How to measure lap times on a circuit 11 How to set the parameters 11 1 Preliminary 82 83 84 84 84 85 89 89 88 89 89 90 90 90 91 93 93 LAR A TRIPY I 11 2 Screen settings 93 11 3 GPS Status 79 11 4 Time zone setting 94 11 5 Language setting 94 11 6 Information screen 95 11 7 Advanced settings 96 a Automatic re calculation a 96 b Automaticswitch off s a w a a koe ee RR wo a oe oeoa ee a e a oa A eee 96 c Setting of acoustic alarms 46 2d a a 96 d Post the note xxx m away a oaoa a a a ee 97 e Monitoring of spot points ee a a a i A wa ee ew et Ew ee ee ae we ee eR ew 97 E Kilometres Miles s s s s scots erami raksi odd eke AA 97 g GPS coordinates 1 a a aa a a 97 fiemevOOdid 5 sere ee a a a a BEEBE ee eR ee ee ee ee eee 97 I Automatic dashboard 2 a a a a SR ee Re ee eRe Se 98 j Show help scr
12. address c Routing profile and starts the navigation This function is useful for example to find a friend Indeed if the person to find can communicate his her longitude latitude position by phone you will be able to head for that position using the Destination GPS position function If the person to find owns a Tripy he she may find his her current longitude latitude position in the Parameters GPS status screen or in one of the info border panes of the road book navigation screen See paragraph 2 3 How does Tripy II navigate b Road book display If the position longitude latitude you have selected is away from the roads system e g In the middle of a field at sea in a country not included in Tripy II s European maps a s o only the Compass navigation will allow you to navigate towards this position the other routing profiles require that the destination be on the roads system to find a solution to the itinerary computation The GPS coordinates longitude latitude may be expressed in various ways e indegrees and decimals of degrees e indegrees minutes and decimals of minutes most commonly used e in degrees minutes seconds Tripy Il handles all three formats and you may tune this setting in the Advanced Settings Coor dinates See paragraph 10 7 Advanced Settings f GPS coordinates Depending on the se lected settin
13. be used as file name to memorise the times of each lap you do You will find it in the user laptime repertory New Reference Once you have chosen the name and pressed the CONFIRM button Tripy then asks you to press the OK button when you are in the position where you wish to be timed In order to optimise the system s precision you are advised to choose a position situated on a straight not on a bend LAP 20110702 1839 Press OK when on position From this moment every time you pass the point you have chosen Tripy will display the time elapsed since the last time you passed it 11 How to set the parameters 11 71 Preliminary Ce soso no on noo eo oonens eeoonsensn eee e n o e eoeocoe eo nono c s no o n po n ne no o one eo o oee nensn css s s o oso non e eo onconso nn o e o oesns po po np ne ee e on o eo o oso In the main menu you will find the Parameters icon leading to the parameters menu shown below geen A Q SCREEN 11 2 Screen settings Tuning the screen contrast as well as the back lighting are explained in paragraph 3 7 Screen contrast and back lighting settings 11 3 GPS Status The GPS status screen is a rather technical screen allowing consulting the synchronization details Next to the icon representing a satellite dish you will find two numbers indicating the number of syn
14. direction In this instance the displayed waypoints are simplified pictograms as no actual pictogram has been drawn See pa ragraph 5 4 Navigate under the road book display Simplified pictograms 7 2 Start the recording of a scouting trip To access the recording function choose the RECORDER icon in the TOOLS menu and press the OK knob If the RECORDER icon is animated the two recorder rolls are turning it means that the recorder Is already active After selecting the RECORDER function the virtual keyboard is displayed It allows you to introduce the file name of the recording you are about to start New record By means of the four arrow knobs you may move the selection one a specific letter of the virtual key board and press the OK knob to validate the chosen letter Repeating this operation letter by letter the file name is completed in the field above the virtual keyboard If you introduce a faulty letter you may deleted it using the delete key of the virtual keyboard Select the delete key on the virtual keyboard and press the OK knob as many times as necessary to delete one or several letters Once the name completed you may select the Validate key on the virtual keyboard and press OK On the recorder screen you find to the right an information pane looking like the info border You may read there from top to bottom e your instantan
15. file is identical to the recorded one but Tripy II has simply reverse the itine rary s direction One of the uses of such reversed itinerary is the possibility to immediately ride the recorded track backward as we will see it in paragraph 8 How to immediately ride a scouting track e Start your recorder when you are not traveling at the start of the scouting trip and y Tripy Il is correctly synchronized with the GPS es 8 How to immediately ride a scouting track When you have made a record you may immediately use it on Tripy ll by going to the Road books User menu On top of the list of road books you will find a directory called reco ROADBOOES fa lastroutes i reco m USB import m demo m lastroutes Select it and press the OK knob You then see a list of all the records of the scouting trips you have made Each scouting trip is represented by two lines On the first one you find the normal record in the direction you rode it and on the second line you will find the same record suffixed with R This is the record with a reversed direction After selecting the record you wish to ride press the OK knob Tripy Il displays a summary of the record its name and length in kilometers Press the OK knob and you find yourself in the navigation mode with the active recorder You are then ready to immediately ride the recorded itinerary and such in the same or opposite d
16. menu By this way you may review all the Tripy Il functions without interfering with the active Itinerary To return to the navigation display simply select Naviga tion in the main menu RB If you switch Tripy Il on or if you select the navigation screen while no itinerary is active Tripy Il displays a Dashboard screen like on the picture below 01 02 15 Tripy Il may display the navigation information in two different ways e road book display e map display D786 Rue du Frost Frehel To toggle between the two types press the OK knob The way Tripy Il navigates in the road book display is explained in paragraph 2 3 How does Tripy II navigate b Road book display a Standard pictogram display If you ride normally the programmed itinerary Tripy ll displays a pictogram of the next road book way point This pictogram represents the direction change you will find following the main road when the partial distance will reach zero the partial distance indication displays Once the waypoint crossed the next waypoint Is automatically displayed and the partial distance to it starts a new coun tdown partial distance sniffer S Teh 0730 321 4 jin next waypoint 3 N 48 5516 pictogram O 2 5478 waypoint number info border The next waypoint pictogram is normally always automatically displayed If you wish you may however review the next or pre
17. moves the screen selection in the menus and lists In the map type of display these knobs allow the zooming in out as well as dis placing the map e Menu A short pressure on this knob moves back one level in the menus architecture A long pressure on this knob calls a contextual menu e g In road book navigation OK A short pressure on this knob validates the chosen function A long pressure on this knob Long OK stores the current GPS position as a new entry in the POI favorites or stores a new waypoint position in a road book recording if recorder activated a Starting Tripy Il When Tripy Il is Off press shortly on the ON OFF knob to switch the device On The Tripy Il logo is dis played for about 40 seconds the dashboard Is displayed 01 02 15 If you were riding an Itinerary at the time of switching Tripy II Off Tripy Il shall be ready to resume and displays automatically the navigation screen on the same Itinerary b Satellites synchronization before departing The GPS receiver integrated inside Tripy Il is a high sensitivity receiver able to sense a position even In the most difficult conditions woods a s o However in order for the receiver to operate properly one should leave it the time to recognize its satellites constellation It is therefore recommended to leave Tripy Il On vehicle stopped at a location offering a broad sky view at least 3 minutes prior to departing The Tripy
18. offers a straight line compass navigation to destination Given the fact that no routing is computed if you navigate such direction switching to the map display the straight line between start and destination may not follow actual roads This type of profile is however fun as it allows you to navigate according to your intuition while keeping an eye on the general straight line direction to your destination After having selected the routing profile Tripy Il displays a window indicating the computing of the route to your chosen destination LAR A Computing best route Press any key to abort During route computing you may press the Menu knob if you wish to interrupt the computation and return to the Destination menu If you let the computing complete itself Tripy ll will display a route summary window indicating the distance to destination FR Thi ry Centre Leisure trip 457 km 4110 If you have chosen the Straight line compass profile the indicated distance is not the driven dis tance but the straight line distance The lettering careful followed by the number 10 that appears to the right of the distance indicates the number of monitoring spots you are going to find on this itinerary see paragraph How to update the radars At this stage Tripy Il is ready to navigate towards destination Press the OK knob to close this sum mary window and proceed to
19. recover road book recordings automatic tracks favorites a s o Under the user directory you shall find the following tree structure roadbooks spots a Favorites Under the user directory you shall find the favorites directory containing a file called userpol asc This file holds all the favorite locations you have stored with Tripy Il To store a favorite position press the OK knob for at least 2 seconds Long OK pressure Note that if the road book recorder is active the Long OK will store the position in the recording and not in the favorites The userpoi asc file is a text file compatible with the PoiEdit software You may use this freewa re to display your favorites or modify their names When you store a favorite location Tripy II gives ita sequential name as well as the date and time upon which you have performed the operation e g A favorite could be called P192 18 03 10 13 32 meaning the 192th favorite stored on March 18th 2010 at 13h32 If you wish to give this favorite a more significant name you may use the PoiEdit freeware http www poiedit com and proceed as follows e open the file in the Tripy Il under the path user favorites userpoi asc e modify the name of the favorite e g Replace P192 18 03 10 13 32 by My Home e save the file Upon disconnecting Tripy ll from the PC after having by anticipation used the p
20. searched location is made of several names it is wise to always introduce the most relevant name In the above example if you wanted to find Ch teau Thierry and introduced the letters Chateau the search would have pro duced 171 results If you introduce Thierry Tripy II will only find four locations and you shall faster narrow your search down In the instance of a town with a name made of multiple words it is not necessary to leave a space or a dash between the words You may concatenate the words like in the example CHATEAUT will give only two results Ch teau Thierry and Ch teau Th baud gt gt If a name show double letters it is not necessary to introduce both of them THIE RY works as well as THIERRY Similarly Tirpy Il is not sensitive to accents or dashes This explains why introducing THIERRY also produces Thiery with an accentuated and a single r It is possible to change the virtual keyboard s letters arrangement AZERTY QWER TY or ABC in the Advanced Settings b Street introduction Once you have chosen the desired destination town you may proceed with the introduction of the street name in a similar fashion as the town introduction Search Street ALE UL OPES os ole 6H lim 151 6 DENGOOOAamnaa Validate L lo At the moment Tripy ll displays the destination street introduction screen it propose
21. the current position in favourites or in the current recording if the recorder is active Another way of activating this function is to hold down the OK button wherever you are In the menu tree g Resetting odometers The Odometer Reset function enables you to force a reset of the road book odometer of the partial odometer and of the total odometer to be found in the different border info panels h Activate and deactivate border info When you choose this option Tripy presents you with a screen on which you can activate or deactivate each border info panel You can thus configure your Tripy Il to leave only the border info panels that interest you active SCREEN SETTING Info 2 Info 3 Compass Rubber band y hi K N A a NB if you deactivate all border info panels the navigation screen appears as follows pry 01 00 46 6 How to look for a road book 6 1 Preliminary ec o ooocoe noo ncenso o ooossos eee eee o o eee eee eee eee eo oorc ooo ooenn e ono n o o ee e o oorso o sones reece rere reser eeeee reese eee en re ore eooo oocso o co o co o o o ns e ee once eono eos co ooo Starting from the Main menu always accessible by pressing the Menu knob you may select the Road books function by means of the right left arrow knobs Validate thereafter by means of the OK knob to enter the Road books function ROAD
22. use all the POI s contained in these files as points to be monitored When you come closer than 500 m from one of these points Tripy will display a warning panel indicating you approaching this point In the upper part of that warning panel a progression bar shall be darkened as you get closer to the point An arrow in the progression bar indicates the direction to the point Below a logo or text indica tes the type of point you come close to in the above example a stationary speed trap at 50 km h as well as your actual instantaneous speed If you wish to deactivate or reactivate the monitoring of the spot points contained in either of the files in the user spots repertory go to advanced settings and choose Spot point monitoring see paragraph 10 7 Advanced settings To perform a data transfer between your Tripy Il and a USB stick you shall start by switching the Tripy II On and connect it then to the USB stick See paragraph 3 4 Connecting Tripy Il to the outside world topic dl Once the connection established manipulate the Tripy to go to the menu Road books USB After a few seconds Iripy II displays a list of all the sub directories and road books contained in the USB stick By means of the arrow knobs you may go down in the list Use the OK knob to transfer the road book file to the Tripy Il as well as loading It to navigate It After completing the operation Tripy Il will autom
23. waypoint close track the track you are following the note following the one we are driving towards info border c he best of both worlds We actively promote the usage of the road book type of display for the higher passive safety it pro vides yet it is obvious that displaying the map Is of interest In some complex situations That is why you may easily toggle between one type of display and the other one by a simple pressure on a knob the OK knob d A map to position yourself or visualize an itinerary Tripy Il usually displays the map oriented in the riding direction and you may select a zoom factor from 100 m to 3 km Beyond this proximity zoom the map is displayed North up for zoom factors from 15 km to 500 km That North up map like paper maps displays the countries borders and names of towns of importance It allows you to visualize the Itinerary to figure out its main directions You shall then be able to review the Itinerary of a road book providing either from the Tripy library or computed by the Tripy II GPS itself Proximity map oriented in the riding direction at a 3 km zoom y 1 i a 86 D17a D17 North up map at a 15 km zoom North up map at a 60 km zoom e Compass display beacon road book Outside of known paths when one does not have accurate data to produce an actual road book if one has not had the time for
24. BOOKS A Road books menu offers the possibility to choose a road book from e the library e anarea reserved for your own road books e anarea reserved for the recently ridden road books e a USB memory stick The Road books menu allows on the other hand to access the recorder used to capture a track See paragraph 7 How to record a scouting road book AAA 3 ara T A The library of road books gathers a large number of itineraries mostly crafted by the Tripy commu nity individual users magazines clubs travel organisers a s o After having selected the Library icon in the Road books menu Tripy ll offers to search a road book starting near your current location or close to a given location A third option allows you to search the road books from a given supplier individual users magazines clubs travel organisers a s o If you choose the Start near me option Tripy ll displays the list of road books starting close to your current location They will be sorted by proximity and by navigating along the list up down or left right arrow knobs you will see for each road book a small summary indicating this itinerary main informa tion NEAREST ROAD BOOKS pReateanateit leer If you choose the Start near location option you will be prompted to introduce the country and town before Tripy Il can display the list of road books starting near that location
25. a new itinerary from where you are to a given note that you may select in the original road book After selecting the function to re compute to a given waypoint Tripy II displays the following screen Find a way to join FR Thi ry Centre 5 jChange target 3 4 ri Route to j Cancel By means of the left right arrow knobs you may set the road book waypoint number towards which you wish to re compute an itinerary target waypoint When you change of target like that the compass and straight line distance to that waypoint are updated on the screen You may then choose the routing profile by means of the up down arrow knobs Once these settings chosen press the OK knob to start the itinerary computation As soon as the computation is completed Tripy Il switches to the navigation mode and the road book leading tothe target waypoint is started After riding this road book until its end you will have reached the target waypoint of the original road book A special connection waypoint will be displayed and the original road book will automatically resume While you ride the road book to the target waypoint the distance to destination and estimated arrival time information pertain to this connection road book and not to the original road book least a few kilometers prior to launch the re computing function If you do not care E for this Tripy Il may re compute an itinerary identical to the original one Q
26. ad the remote button is still the only professional solution for controlling your Tripy equipment without taking your hands off the handlebars and your eyes off the road If you are using it in a car the remote button enables a co pilot to activate the Trip Master s reset option or to record a note on recor ding a reconnaissance For the remote buttons system to work your Tripy I must be fitted with a 1 5 x or higher internal pro gramme The Remote button option must also be activated see paragraph Advanced settings When you receive your Tripy Il is recommended to begin by fully charging its batteries a Battery charging To charge the batteries follow the procedure below e connect the USB connector of the cable in the USB connector located on the charger one direction fits never force e Connect the charger to a power plug 110V or 220V 50Hz or 60Hz e Unscrew the metallic cover of the connector at the rear of the Tripy Il e Switch Tripy II ON See paragraph 3 2 Switching ON switching OFF amp satellites synchronization e Connect the round male connector at the end of the cable into the connector located at the rear of Tripy Il The male connector is keyed It should fit the corresponding key located on the female connector of Tripy Il introduction should be easy never force Aa A Dl prs rr i Ps kd ibe a nE i E _ _ gt When Tripy Il is charging the four black b
27. allows you to compute an itinerary towards an address a recently used des tination a favorite location a point of interest hotel restaurant gas station a s o or a GPS location longitude latitude DESTINATION During the destination selection several steps will follow each other e g To head for an address you shall choose the country then the town the street and finally the route profile In this operation sequence you may at all times press the Menu knob to step back in the selection In addition to all the functions dedicated to leisure riding Tripy Il offers a traditional GPS function For the optimal use of this function it is however recommended to avoid introducing very remote locations especially if you choose the leisure type of routing Under Destination choose the Address function and select the country from the list by means of the right left or up down arrow knobs and finally the OK knob You may then introduce the des tination town Search town CP France DABOQUaD JOQ 7 8 9 als oF cHU cm 15 s MEGUDNISaa 11213 e hh he A validate i fo a Town introduction and use of the virtual keyboard By means of the arrow knobs you may move the selection through to a specific letter on the virtual keyboard and then press the OK knob to validate the choice Repeating this operation letter by let ter the name of the destination location is completed in
28. aps file called Tripyll zip After having decompressed it you will find a Radars directory in which is a list of files ASC and NVO You may then select all these files and of this Radars directory and copy them in the user spots directory of your Tripy Il When you have copied new files in the user spots directory you will execute the procedure to safely remove the peripheral before disconnecting the USB cable between Tripy Il and the PC Once Tripy II disconnected from the PC you should let Tripy Il on for approximately 5 minutes before that the new files become active
29. ards the PC using the common procedures of your computer used for USB sticks See paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy ll and PC It is compulsory to use the procedure allowing the safe ejection of the peripheral prior to disconnecting the USB cable connecting Tripy II to your PC If this procedure is not followed some data of the Tripy Il memory may be destroyed impeding its operation Should such situation happen it is necessary to return the device to the technical services or run the restoration procedure See paragraph 3 13 Safe copy and Tripy II restoration gt d Connecting a USB memory stick You may connect a USB memory stick to Tripy Il by means of the usual USB cable and female female adapter Once the memory stick connected to the Tripy Il follow the procedure described under para graph 3 10 Data transfer between Tripy Il and USB memory stick e Connecting to another Tripy II You may connect two Tripy Il s by means of the first Tripy USB cable the female female adapter and the second Tripy ll cable Once the assembly connected you may consult the data road books a s o of one Tripy by means of the other one and copy data from one to the other See paragraph 3 11 Data transfer between two Tripy Ils BAe E f Connection to remote buttons Different remote buttons are available optionally for the car and motorcycle applications On motorcycle and Qu
30. are 2 0 0 19 05 2011 11 06 License RM2 Licence TVM Europe 1 4 1 4 Road Books 1 0 Capacity 2000 m h 0 00 V Charge stopped 0 0 m c Tele Atlas You will find from top to bottom e the internal serial number e the firmware version and revision date e the Tripy application license License RM2 e the map license and revision TVM Europe e the road books library revision you will thereafter find information pertaining to the battery charge e its capacity you may read the quantity of available energy in the battery in mAh as measured by the gauge as well as the battery voltage e the charging status as well as the current injected into the battery upon charging A negative current value means that Tripy Il is draining current from the battery A positive value means that the charger Is currently charging the battery f you select the Advanced settings icon you find a list of several possible settings You may navigate through the list by means of the arrow knobs and press the OK3 knob to access the chosen parameter setting The advanced settings allow you to tune the following parameters a Automatic re calculation Enables you to activate or deactivate automatic re calculation of itinerary also see paragraph Auto matic re calculation of itinerary and paragraph Stop Activate automatic re calculation b Automatic switch off This setting allows the selection
31. ars displayed inside the battery level indicator battery shape are sweeping from left to right DASHBOARD keh a pue If the four bars are displayed sequentially it means that the battery currently being charged Is comple tely empty As the charging progresses the bars to the left remain static and only the bars to the right continue sweeping Static bars represent the proportion of the battery already charged Once comple tely charged all bars are black and static When the charge Is completed Tripy ll switches Off by means of Its automatic switching Off procedure standard after 30 minutes or more if the automatic extinction parameter has been modified in the Advanced settings As long as Tripy Il is connected to the charger its own power consumption Is taken care of by the latter In this configuration if the batteries are already fully loaded they will remain as such If Tripy Il is switched Off during the battery recharging operation the charge shall continue at a slower pace The charging shall therefore be longer A complete battery charge lempty battery to start with with Tripy switched On will last about three hours A complete battery charge empty battery to start with with Tripy switched Off will last about 24 hours During battery charging the information screen menu Parameters Information allows the checking of the battery filling as well as the flow of current charging A fully charged batte
32. artial down counter b North orientation At zoom factors larger than 3km you may see a map oriented to the North containing only the country s borders and the names of the main towns proximity map oriented in the riding direction at a 3km zoom factor i 86 D17a D17 North oriented map at a 15 km zoom factor Lamballe North oriented map at a 60 km zoom factor The North oriented map gives you an idea of the path of the itinerary the loaded road book or the Tripy II computed itinerary The North oriented map is normally centered on your current position You may however use the up down arrow knobs to move the map along the active Itinerary and scroll through it As soon as you use the up down arrow knobs a small eye icon is displayed in the bottom left corner of the screen It means that the map is not centered anymore on your current position but well on you itinerary Under the eye icon a number is displayed in a format xxx yyy le g 25 63 The second number yyy indicates the total track length and the first one xxx the millage corresponding to the position at the centre of the screen After a few seconds the small eye disappears and the map is repositioned to the current position When in the Navigation mode either in the road book or map display you may activate a functions menu by means of a long pressure on the Menu knob let the finger pre
33. at shall perform such general RESET automatically in the instance the device is not responding anymore If you are led to operate a RESET unscrew the two screws holding the slot cover in place and put it aside By means of a thin non metallic stick toothpick or match press carefully the RESET micro switch located to the left of the Micro SD Tripy Il should then unlock and restart If this is not happening return your Tripy Il to after sales ser vice for repair Once the RESET operation completed you may re install the cover Ensure that the seal is clean be fore installing the cover Tighten then the two screws with a strength of 0 3 Nm to ensure that the cover Is watertight b Micro SD card extraction The Micro SD card extraction or replacement is strongly advised against and voids the warranty If however you wish to extract the Micro SD memory card you shall first unscrew the two screws holding the slot cover in place and put it aside Carefully press the Micro SD until it produces a low click sound You may then release the Micro SD and extract it by means of tweezers 4 How to head for destination 4 1 Preliminary From the main menu always accessible by pressing the Menu knob you may choose the Desti nation function by means of the left right arrow knobs Validate by means of the OK knob to enter the Destination function Tele Y I DESTINATION The Destination menu
34. at that place that Tripy II stores the last 20 itineraries it recently computed e GPX and GDP traces Tripy Il can also read GPX type files standardised GPS format and GDB type files Garmin TM format To navigate files in GPX or GDB format you must copy the files in question into the user roadbooks repertory exactly as you would do with a road book file in Tripy format trb Once your GPX or GDB files are copied onto Tripy Il you have to go to the Roadbooks menu User where you will find the tree diagram of the sub repertories and files that you have copied there SaintMalo a coe SaintMalo SaintMalo In the list the files are prefixed with a little icon that enables you to determine the file type native Tripy format or GDP or GPX When you are driving a GPX or GDB file only the trace will be visible and navi gation In map mode Is therefore recommended f Monitored POI s e g Speed traps Under the user directory you shall find the spots directory When you receive your new Tripy Il the spots directory contains a set of files describing various danger and speed trap zones These files are offered by AlerteGPS upon your purchase of your Tripy You may update these files thereafter by going to the the http www alertegps com As soon as you place one or several nvo files Tripy POI s or asc files POI s at the PoiEdit format Tripy shall
35. ate the list by means of the arrow knobs Use the OK knob on a directory to navigate down into it and that same OK knob on a road book file to copy it from the Slave Tripy to the Master Tripy After such operation Tripy Il will automatically switch to the navigation mode on that road book If you wish to navigate this road book again at a later stage you will find it under Roadbooks User FUSB Import If you investigate the content of the Slave Tripy without copying a road book you must leave the list and return to the main menu prior to disconnecting the Slave Tripy If you do not follow this procedure you may destroy data in the memory of the Slave or Master Tripy and impede its operation Should such situation happen it is neces sary to return the device to the technical services or run the restoration proce dure See paragraph 3 13 Safe copy and Tripy II restoration a ee roe gt e ES Er PA z 7 a Under the Parameters Information menu you will find several technical information and among others your Tripy Il firmware version and date of Issue Tripy ll is a professional GPS continuously improving Firmware updates are regularly available on the community section of the www tripy eu website Upon clicking on the update link a small program is downloaded TripyUpdate exe onto your computer and automatically run This update program will ask
36. atically change to the navigation of this road book It you wish to navigate this road book again later on you will find it in the menu Road books User USB Import If you browse the content of the USB memory stick without copying any road book you must leave the list and return to the main menu before physically disconnecting the USB memory stick from the Tripy II cable If this procedure is not followed some data of the Tripy ll memory may be destroyed impeding its operation Should such situation happen it is necessary to return the device to the technical services or run the restoration procedure See paragraph 3 13 Safe copy and Tripy II restora tion To transfer data between two Tripy II s you shall start by switching both Tripy Ils On and then connect them together See paragraph 3 4 Connecting Tripy II to the outside world topic e Once the connection established consider the Tripy providing the data as the Slave and the Tripy recel ving the road book as the Master No operation shall be conducted on the Slave On the Master Tripy go to the Road books USB menu After a few seconds the Master Tripy displays the list of all the Slave Tripy user sub direc tories You shall see the favorites pol records roadbooks and spots directories To find a user road book on the Slave Tripy go to the roadbooks sub directory Navig
37. ave the itine rary the strategy adopted by Tripy for the re calculation will be to prioritise the final destination by using the calculation profile chosen at the start 3 What you need to know prior to using Tripy Il 3 1 Tripy II GPS knob functions Tripy Il is fitted with a large panoramic silver back reflective display That technology ensures a perfect readability in full sun light and its integrated LED lighting allows you to use it at night or in the twilight To ensure a great sturdiness and perfect readability the display is protected by a non glare scratch proof glass The interchangeable screen rim is available in two colours allowing you to taint your Tripy Il at your taste Tripy Il comes with both a white and yellow covers LCD display el pales down arrow menu left amp right arrow ON OFF OK interchangeable colour reset knob SD memory slot amp reset knob access screws for memory amp reset knob access cover Tripy ll shows seven watertight knobs at the front for the following functions e ON OFF When Tripy Il is Off a short pressure on this knob switches the device On When Tripy Il is On a long pressure on this knob switches the device Off When Tripy Il is On each short pressure on this knob allows alternatively the switching On of the back lighting or leaving the device in the automatic back lighting e Arrows right down up right a short pressure on these knobs
38. aypoint You may also toggle to the map display or use the re compute function See hereafter d Simplified pictograms In some instances it could be that a road book contains waypoints for which not pictogram has been designed It is the case if the person who created the road book did not draw the waypoint pictogram It is also the instance if you ride a road book you just recorded See paragraph 8 how to ride imme diately a scouting trip and in which you have marked some waypoints these waypoints are well mar ked in the recorded track but do not contain any pictogram In this instance as Tripy ll has no pictogram to display it will display a simplified pictogram The simplified pictogram Is a pictogram showing the general directions of the track at the location where the waypoint is marked e Various info borders The border info zone can presenta range of different data This data is set out on the six display panels shown below Distance remaining to final destination Estimated time to reach the end of the itinerary This time is calculated on the basis of the average distance per hour over the last 15 minutes driven Distance remaining to the next gas station To obtain information in this field the road book editor must have defined a waypoint as a gas station PEELE Distance actually ridden since the start of the Itinerary
39. between an auto off after 30 minutes 3 hours or 8 hours If Tripy Il remains stationary without knobs activation for a duration equal to the setting it will automatically switch off Except for very special applications it is recommended to set this parameter to 30 minutes c Setting of acoustic alarms Enables you to activate or deactivate the different acoustic alarm sources The following options are possible e Keyboard Actuation A beep sounds every time a button Is pressed e Note approaching A beep sounds when a note is approaching the activation distance can be set by means of the Show the note xxx m away see below e Deviation from trace A beep sounds when you leave the Itinerary e Spot monitoring Abeep sounds when a monitoring point is detected la radar for example A IA e lo Fit AR nE i E _ _ gt E d Post the note xxx m away Enables you to set the distance at which a note will be displayed when you are in map display or in auto matic control panel If you set this parameter to 500 metres this means that in automatic control panel mode the display of the control panel will give way to the display of the note when you are less than 500 metres from this notes position e Monitoring of spot points To use the point surveillance function you must place the spot point files in the user spot repertory see paragraph 3 9 e Monitored points files The Spot p
40. cable Ref 9020 dedicated to this function This cable is fitted with an electronic module performing the voltage conversion between your vehicle electrical circuit and the voltage ne cessary to the Tripy Il When the cable is connected to the Tripy Il the batteries are re charged until full and Tripy ll drains the current from the cable without unloading the Tripy II batteries Before riding with Tripy Il connected to the cable Ref 9020 it is compulsory to screw the male connector of Ref 9020 in the connector at the rear of Tripy ll to ensure the connection remains watertight The other end of cable Ref 9020 must be connected to your vehicle s electrical circuit according to the polarity a Contrast setting To ensure a perfect readability the Tripy II screen must be tuned to the optimal contrast level Once the contrast level set Tripy will adapt your setting according to the external temperature to maintain the set contrast level at all temperature levels In case of large temperature variations it may be neces sary to further adjust it manually From the main menu always accessible pressing the MENU knob you may reach the contrast set tings by going to Parameters Screen PARAMETERS Os eo Contrast li A e ns mie Backlight z SCREEN Base light On the above picture the contrast setting cursor in A is selected and you may adjust it using the right arro
41. ceding waypoint pictograms using the right or left arrow knobs In this ins tance a small eye icon is displayed Indicating that the displayed waypoint is not the one you are heading for anymore After a few seconds without activating the arrow knobs Tripy Il returns to the normal navigation mode the eye Icon disappear and the waypoint you are heading for as well as its countdown are once again displayed However under some conditions Tripy Il may display other information instead of the next waypoint pictogram See the following paragraphs for this topic b Ribbon display When you start riding a road book you will find at the pictogram location a ribbon type display The ribbon is a representation of the trace to be followed and the grey arrow in the middle of the screen your position versus the trace You may then navigate in such a way that your position the grey arrow meets the ribbon In the example below one understands that if one continues straight ahead one will actually connect to the trace Once on the trace Tripy Il will automatically switch to displaying the road book next waypoint pictogram and the partial distance will be updated The ribbon display also occurs If you leave the itinerary In this instance it allows you to see where you are versus the trace you should have followed See also paragraph 2 4 What happens as one leaves the itinerary a When you start a road book
42. chronized satellites on the number of satellites seen e g The indication 5 8 means that the GPS receiver sees 8 satellites and 5 of these are actually used to compute the position The GPS receiver will be correctly synchronized and produce relevant information when a minimum of 4 satellites are synchronized Just above you find the HDOP icon Horizontal dilution of precision which value is proportional to the accuracy with which the GPS receiver may determine your position The lower the value better Is the precision An HDOP of 1 or lower is excellent If the HDOP shows a value of 50 maximum the receiver is probably not synchronized yet not ready to provide valid positions At the top of the screen you will find the date and time as well as your latitude longitude These infor mation are only correct when the GPS receiver Is correctly synchronized To be confident that the time displayed is accurate down to the second you shall wait for a at least 15 minutes of synchronization In the bottom part of the screen you will find a graph in which each vertical bar represents a satellite Under the bar a number indicates the satellite ID number and above the bar un number indicates the signal level a level of 50 is maximal and rather exceptional A white bar means that the satellite is visible and a black bar that the satellite is not only visible but used for synchronization The sole syn chronized
43. ction c Routing profile 4 3 How to head for a destination recently selected 4 4 How to store a favorite location to return to it later on a Store the current position as a favorite b Compute an itinerary towards a favorite location 4 5 How to head for a point of interest hotel gas station a s o 4 6 Howto head for a GPS coordinate longitude latitude 5 How to navigate an itinerary 9 1 Preliminary 9 2 In and out of the navigation mode 9 3 Toggle the road book and map displays 0 4 Navigate under the road book display a Standard pictogram display b Ribbon display c Compass display d Simplified pictograms e Various info borders 9 9 Map navigation and displaying the itinerary computed by Tripy Il a Riding direction orientation b North orientation 9 6 Additional navigation functions a Re compute an itinerary to final destination b Re compute towards a given waypoint c Stop Activate automatic re calculation d Show notes e Leave the road book and return to the control panel display 94 34 56 x 0 59 60 60 61 62 69 67 67 67 68 69 69 70 s 74 s 2 73 79 79 76 78 78 79 80 80 80 f Memorise my position a 2 1 2 1 we g Resetting odometers h Activate and deactivate border info 0 ee ee a
44. ctivate this parameter simply press the OK knob J Show help screens If this parameter is active help screens are displayed at various instances upon entering the navigation mode the Trip Master function a s o k Remote buttons This option must be activated for the remote buttons optional accessory to work Note that when the remote buttons are used Tripy Il will lose approximately 10 of autonomy 12 How to update the speed trap warning file 12 1 Preliminary The warning function Is not solely reserved to the warning of dangers and speed traps locations The warning function may be used to inform when approaching any list of GPS points The list of monitored points must be loaded as a ASC or NVO file in the user spots directory as explained at the paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy ll and PC e Monitored POI s Speed traps 12 2 Updating the speed traps files When you receive your new Tripy Il the spots directory contains a number of files containing the dan ger and speed control zones These files are offered by AlterteGPS upon the purchase of your Tripy Later on you may update these files by going to http www alertegps com After registering on the http www alertegps com site and subscribed you will be able to select the type of device Choose e GPS type road book e Brand Iripy e Model Tripy Il Download the compressed speed tr
45. e stored at a position not exactly corresponding to the position you were when pressing the OK knob After starting the recorder you may use the Menu knob to return to the Main menu and navigate thereafter to any other Tripy Il function The recorder continues to operate and you may at any time store a waypoint position by a long pressure on the OK knob keep the OK knob depressed for at least 1 second When you have finished the scouting press the MENU knob and maintain it depressed until a menu is shown where you can find the Stop recorder entry Press the OK knob and the recording will stop Once the recording completed and the recorder stopped you may recover your record file by connecting Tripy ll to the PC and look into the user roadbooks reco directory See also paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy Il and PC d Itineraries or road books In the user roadbooks reco directory you will find the file carrying the name you had given at the start of the recorder This name will be extended with a suffix containing the date and time of the start of the recording e g If you have called your recording TEST the file will be called for example TEST_ 20100516 1022 trb meaning that your record has started on May 16th at 10 22 am A second file with the same name yet with a R suffix in the above example TEST 20100516 1022 R trb is also available This
46. e the POI s The distance Indicated is a straight line distance SEARCH POl Near me Near a locality Remains to choose from the list of points of interest and press the QK knob to compute an itinerary towards this POI Tripy Il offers you then to choose the routing profile To know the details about the routing profile see paragraph 4 2 How to head for an address c Routing profile and starts the navigation Ay a ea A ae fete Jace al TA 7 al a 4 ado AA ee a ee T 4 6 How to head for a GPS coordinate longitude latitude To head for a position determined by its longitude latitude select the GPS position in the Desti nation menu ENCODE POSITION LATITUDE N JS 9 22 Os LONGITUDE E 3 42 _ 08 Tripy ll will by default display the latitude and longitude of your current position To modify it make use of the right left arrow knobs to select the field you wish to modify the active field is displayed ona black background Use then the up down arrow knobs to adjust the field value Proceed similarly for each of the longitude and latitude fields until the desired value is displayed Once the correct GPS posi tion correctly set press the OK knob to compute the Itinerary towards that position Tripy ll offers you then to choose the routing profile To know the details about the routing profile see paragraph 4 2 How to head for an
47. een as well Tripy indicates the road number or street name and location where we are On this map display the iti nerary to follow is displayed as a large grey ribbon enhancing the road to follow White arrows are additionally superimposed on this grey line to clearly indicate the direction to follow N553 Rue de la Ville Audregnies Versus the road book type of display the map display Is interesting to assess more complex road situations in towns yet requires additional rider attention This mode is not recommended for bike or quad riding b road book display One of the characteristics of Tripy is its original display called road book or tulip symbols Such display type combined with the panoramic silver back display easily readable in full sunlight is defini tely fitted for motor sports and especially bikes and quads On such type of vehicles the pilot must remain concentrated on the route and cannot afford occupying his sight with a device requiring more than a few tenth of a second In the road book type of display Tripy Il indicates in a very efficient manner the partial distance to the next waypoint and updates that distance continuously The more you get approach the next waypoint the lesser the distance remaining distance sniffer Pictogram of next nd 3 N 48 5516 waypoint O 2 5478 MD 22 49 37 next waypoint number info border
48. eens io a ma a a a 98 k Remote DUONG o s o sou aw e boo Oe o a Eo a te Pee BERR ee eR eee ea 98 12 How to update the speed trap warning file 99 12 1 Preliminary 99 12 2 Updating the speed traps files 99 1 Tripy Il much more than a GPS Does a GPS represent the perfect guide for unforgettable rides Have you ever imagined creating your next road ride on a Tourist or Topographic digital map Did you think possible the creation of a beautiful off road ride based on a digital topographic map or even prepare your utmost adventurous raids on foreign exotic maps You dreamed about it Tripy did it Tripy Il is a unique combination of a GPS and digital road book player recorder designed to enjoy unfor gettable rides and create exclusive itineraries AN ae a Y ere mn a ribs A a N k i i A LY Pe E Mr Eo aL L L er HAL Naucnecin 2 Tripy Il concepts 2 1 Preliminary c oo oo eo reer eee eee wre eee eee eee eee eee eee ee eee ee see eee ee ere eee ese eee sere seee eee eee ee eee eee rere eer eee reece rere reser eee ee ees eee eer eee reser eee eee eee eee eee see o no oe e ooo o eo ooo The Tripy Il GPS is a stand alone navigation system allowing the computation of an A to B Itinerary and displaying the Itinerary in a traditional fashion as a scrolling map on Its screen Nothing revolutionary and pretty common to all GPS es on the market Tripy stands
49. eous speed e your bearing e your altitude e the GPS synchronization quality HDOP in meters The HDOP zone indicates the accuracy of the GPS synchronization If that area AN shows it means that the receiver does not receive a signal In this instance the recorder is not in a position to capture your track To the left of the screen you will find from top to bottom e the current partial odometer e the current total odometer e the partial odometer of the last stored waypoint e the total odometer of the last stored waypoint e the number of the last stored waypoint framed in the bottom of the screen After starting the recorder the partial and total are set to zero The last stored waypoint Is set to 1 as Tripy Il automatically marks a first waypoint at the start of the recording By pressing the OK knob you may mark a waypoint at the current location you are at The number in the last stored waypoint field is increased by one and the values of the total and partial odometers to this waypoint are stored on the screen in the two bottom fields partial and total odometers of the last stored waypoint Pes ee n iea En de If you mark a waypoint while the GPS receiver is not synchronized the HDOP indica tion shows the waypoint number is shown to the screen yet this waypoint shall be stored only upon recovery of GPS synchronization In this instance the waypoint may therefore b
50. ft of the screen you will find from top to bottom e the partial odometer e the total odometer e the average speed since the last reset not an average ridden speed etime on which the average is computed time lapsed since the last average speed reset 4 Before starting a rally with the Trip Master always wait for a quality GPS synchro AN nization You may access the reset menu by means of a long pressure on the MENU knob Press the MENU knob until a menu like the following is displayed ll Reset Total trip P Reset Mean speed h Reset All To perform the Total trip reset select this entry from the list and press the OK knob To perform the reset of the average speed and its corresponding timer select the Reset Mean speed entry and press the OK knob To reset all counters partial total average select the Reset All entry and press the OK knob 9 3 Quick reset of the partial trip counter A short pressure on the OK knob allows you to reset the partial trip counter to zero When you follow a paper road book you may so easily and quickly reset the partial counter upon passing at the exact position of a waypoint If the recorder is active each time you set this partial counter to zero short pressure on the OK knob a waypoint will be marked in the current recording Also note that a remote buttons system exists optional which enables the co pilot to reset keeping the bu
51. g the introduction of longitude and latitude will be done in two or three fields In the above example Tripy Il is set in degrees minutes and decimals of minutes A it ae cg i 1 sl LAA J are D A TRIPY I 5 How to navigate an itinerary 5 1 Preliminary The way Tripy Il operates in the navigation mode as well as the various display types it can offer are explained in paragraph 2 3 How does Tripy ll navigate In this continuing paragraph we will focus on the possible manipulations when navigating an itinerary 5 2 n and out of the navigation mode To navigate an itinerary one should first have selected a road book See paragraph 6 How to search and load a road book or computed an itinerary See paragraph 4 How to head for destination Once this operation executed the itinerary will remain active until having ridden it completely or having left it Quit road book function or having selected another one Even if you switch Tripy II off upon switching it back on the active itinerary before switching off will be active after re starting In this latter instance after re starting Tripy Il will automatically display the Navigation screen When in the Navigation mode Tripy ll presents a road book view road book pictogram or a map view or even a compass view You may leave the Navigation mode at any time by means of the Menu knob and so return to the main
52. inerary To activate automatic re calculation of itinerary refer to paragraph Advanced settings When automa tic re calculation is activated Tripy automatically re calculates a new itinerary when you have left the planned itinerary When you have left the planned Itinerary Tripy gives you a minimum of autonomy and displays first the ribbon which will allow you in most cases to return to your Initial route If you continue to follow a different itinerary to the one planned Tripy will go into compass mode for a moment and then will start an automatic re calculation of the Itinerary When Tripy re calculates an itinerary It always tries as far as possible to avoid you having to make a u turn lan always dangerous manoeuvre According to the type of itinerary you are driving Iripy adapts Its re calculation strategy as follows If you are driving a road book that you have started in the Road book menu Tripy considers that the route takes precedence over the destination and uses a re calculation strategy that always seeks to return as quickly as possible to the initial itinerary in order to lose as little time as possible If you are driving an itinerary that has been calculated by the machine itinerary calculated via the Destination menu or link itinerary to rejoin a road book s starting point Tripy will have asked you for the desired calculation profile fast no toll no motorway tourist routes In this case when you le
53. irection you rode it depending on your selection of the record without or with the R suffix The waypoints dis played are simplified pictograms as no pictogram has yet been drawn See paragraph 5 4 Navigate under the road book display d Simplified pictograms As the marked waypoints of the record do not carry actual pictograms it is common that riding such record is easier in the map display mode rather than the road 5 book display mode A it ae cg i 1 sl LAA J are D A 9 How to use the Trip Master 9 1 Preliminary The Trip Master offers mainly two odometers as well as an average speed computation The Trip Master is a function mainly used to ride paper road books still regularly used in the classic rally world You can access the Trip Master function starting from the main menu Select the TOOLS icon in the main menu and then choose the Trip Master icon then press the OK button The Trip Master function displays to the right an information pane similar to the info border You will continuously read there from top to bottom e your current speed e your bearing e your altitude e the status of the recorder info is animated and the number of the last marked waypoint is also indicated 4 BRB When the recording function RECO is activated the recorder icon in the border in the above example To the le
54. ns of the USB cable See paragraph 3 4 Connecting Tripy ll to the outside world topic c Connection to the computer By means of the Windows explorer or any other similar software navigate in your computer direc tory tree structure to find the system back up directory created upon the back up procedure Copy this system directory from your computer into the root directory of your Tripy Il Your computer will probably indicate that the directory already exists you must continue and accept replacing it The res toration shall continue for about 30 minutes to an hour according to your computer performance F Once the back up operation completed do not forget to follow the procedure to safely N disconnect the peripheral before disconnecting the USB cable between your Tripy II and PC The small slot located on the Tripy ll lower side hosts a 4 Gbytes Micro SD memory card acting as your Tripy hard disk This slot also hosts a micro switch to reset the device a Tripy Il general RESET It is possible to execute a Tripy ll general RESET by pressing the micro switch located in the slot to the left of the Micro SD This operation is normally never to be used except in some extreme circumstances when Tripy Il is not reacting to any knob Even in such a circumstance it is recommended to walt at least 15 minutes before proceeding to a general RESET Indeed Tripy Il is fitted with a watchdog system th
55. oint monitoring setting enables you to acti vate or deactivate the spot point monitoring contained in each file of the user spots repertory f Kilometres Miles Enables you to set Tripy 1l to display its distance information in Metres and Kilometres or in Feet and Miles g GPS coordinates Tripy ll can manage displays and entries of GPS coordinates in three different formats e in degrees decimals of degrees two fields D ddd e in degrees minutes decimals of minutes three fields D MM mm e in degrees minutes seconds three fields D2MM SS The degrees minutes decimals of minutes format in three fields D2MM mm is the one most frequently used in rally driving To make a setting press the OK button then choose one of the three formats in the list Then confirm with the OK button h Keyboard The Keyboard setting enables you to define the layout of the buttons on the virtual keyboard The vir tual keyboard is the keyboard design displayed when you have to enter a datum the location of a destination for example I Automatic dashboard If this parameter is active the dashboard will systematically cover the road book display in navigation mode The road books display showing the waypoint pictograms will however re appear as you come closer than 500m to a waypoint Once the waypoint crossed the dashboard Is once again displayed To activate or de a
56. on towards the next waypoint as well as the straight line distance to it In the above example the vehicle leaves the itinerary at point A Reaching the next 4 road crossing point B the compass shall be directed 90 degrees to the left It will be obvious that the road to the left leads to the waypoint 10 By means of the right amp left arrow knobs it is also possible to display the other road book waypoints straight line distance and direction b If you leave the itinerary while Tripy II displays the map If you are displaying the map at the moment you leave the itinerary you ll immediately see where you are versus the normal itinerary you may eventually modify the map zoom factor by means of the left amp right arrow knobs D52a Michel M heust Lamballe c Manual re calculation of the itinerary At any time you may ask the Tripy II GPS to re compute an itinerary Contrary to most traditional GPS es Tripy does not automatically re compute an itinerary from where you stand towards the final destination It always leaves you the choice of the point towards which you want to re compute a connection route The advantage of such way of doing Is that you remain master of the device that never re computes In an unwanted fashion risking missing the most Interesting part of an original itinerary or the lunch get together with your friends Be E a gt ETE LAA P aa _ _ gt d Manual re calculation of the it
57. out when it comes to riding the nicest rides in the optimal safety conditions considering its ease of use readability speed to grasp a concise information battery autonomy no intrusive and boring voice prompting a s o Indeed Tripy offers a unique type of display we call electronic road book The road book type of display is the most relevant for usage on bike quad as well as In cars and off road vehicles as It requi res far less attention and glancing time This subliminal guiding is a non intrusive solution liberating the pilot from tiring vocal prompting even more tiring as it is used on small roads where frequent mes sages are given Tele Il AO NAVIGATION NEAREST ROAD BOOKS 5 05 18 68 199 N A A553 Rue de la Ville Audregnbes A IA e lo Fit AR ae The Tripy Il GPS allows you to eto drive itineraries directly calculated by the machine enter your destination and the journey profile you wish to adopt fast roads no tolls no motorway tourist routes and Tripy ll is ready to take you there e record a scouting trip prior to preparing a professional quality road book e re run a previously recorded track e discover one of the many Itineraries created by other nice rides fans and already available in Its memory more than 500 itineraries Tripy Il presents to you by order of proximity or provider e find out
58. ph 3 4 Connecting Tripy Il to the outside world Once connected to the PC Tripy Il is recognized by the com puter like a removable drive similarly as a USB memory stick or USB hard disk Once connected to the PC you may copy files from the PC towards the Tripy Il and from Tripy Il towards the PC using the common procedures of your computer used for USB sticks If your computer Is equipped with Windows operating system you may for example use the procedures such as cut amp paste The Tripy Il disk structure is made of two directories from its root e system directory e user directory The system directory contains the entire manufacturer s data of your Tripy Il and may in no instance be altered without jeopardizing your Tripy ll GPS operation You shall therefore never interfere with this directory most importantly never delete anything in it It is compulsory to use the procedure allowing the safe ejection of the peripheral prior to disconnecting the USB cable connecting Tripy II to your PC If this procedure is not followed some data of the Tripy Il memory may be destroyed impeding its operation Should such situation happen it is necessary to return the device to the technical services or run the restoration procedure See paragraph 3 13 Safe copy and Tripy II restoration gt The user directory is aimed to your usage It is where you may store your road books or
59. press a knob or when you come close to a direction change a s o The Base Light cursor allows the setting of the minimal lighting always illuminating the screen This lighting offers visibility at night without blinding the driver c Impact of the lighting setting on the autonomy The more the lighting Is used and the higher the level the higher the Tripy Il electrical consumption and the lesser the autonomy With a permanent base lighting at the maximal intensity the autonomy may decrease to about 10 h with a new battery On the other hand if the lighting is always Off the auto nomy may reach 20h with a new battery Tripy Il mounting assembly is extremely simple and efficient It is made of a rubberized ball affixed to the device rear side a middle size arm fitted with a butterfly screw that you may tighten on and off by hand as well as a rubberized ball to be mounted on a vehicle side tube Tripy Il is supplied with a base set of fixtures allowing the mounting on a tube bike or quad steering safety bar in a car a s o If this base set Is not fulfilling your requirements you may find the list of all other fixture models on our website www tripy eu in the Products Mounting Accessories section To transfer data between your computer and Tripy Il you shall start by switching Tripy Il On and then connect it to a PC USB port by means of the USB cable supplied with your Tripy II See paragra
60. py It is wise to make a safe copy of all this system environment This shall allow you to restore your Tripy Il if a total or partial destruction of the system data was happe ning You could alter the system data through abnormal operation such as disconnecting AN the Tripy Il from the computer without having followed the procedure to safely dis connect the peripheral a Back up copy Connect your Tripy ll to your computer by means of the USB cable See paragraph 3 4 Connecting Tripy Il to the outside world topic c Connection to the computer By means of the Windows explorer or any other similar software copy the system directory at the root of the Tripy Il removable drive to a chosen place on your hard disk Beware that all the data contal ned in Tripy Il system directory represent about 2 Gbytes Make sure you have enough disk storage capacity on your computer prior to executing this copy Depending on your computer performance this copy may last between 30 minutes and an hour Similarly you may also make a back up copy of your Tripy Il user directory Doing so will back up all your personal information from the Tripy Il A Once the back up operation completed do not forget to follow the procedure to safely disconnect the peripheral before disconnecting the USB cable between your Tripy Il and PC b Restoration of a back up copy Connect your Tripy Il to your computer by mea
61. r own road books into the memory of your Tripy II GPS see paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy Il and PC d Itineraries or road books 6 4 Search a road book recently ridden After selecting the Last icon in the Road books menu Tripy II displays the list of road books re cently ridden Select the road book from the list and press the OK knob to start it 6 5 Copy a road book from a USB memory stick To copy into Tripy Ils memory and start a road book from a USB memory stick see paragraph Data transfer between Tripy ll and USB memory stick it Sle te Th Pd s iS 7 How to record a road book scouting trip 7 1 Preliminary Your Tripy ll is fitted with a RECO function allowing you to record a scouting trip prior to precisely editing this itinerary Once the RECO recorder started you may ride the itinerary to record Tripy II will automatically store the track of the itinerary that you ride and you may mark each waypoint position by pressing the OK knob Once the itinerary completed and after having stopped the RECO recorder Tripy Il creates a road book file trb of the ridden itinerary as well as a second file containing the identical itinerary in the oppo site direction You may copy the resulting file on your PC to display it by means of the RoadTracer Pro software or ride it immediately the recorder track in the recorder direction or the opposite
62. rb if you wish A IA e lo Fit AR gt Pt Du d tineraries or road books Under the user directory you shall find the roadbook directory that is empty when you receive your new Tripy Il It is in that user roadbooks directory that you may copy your own road books Your personal road books are the ones you ll have either downloaded from Internet or received from a friend or created yourself by means of the RoadTracer Pro software The Tripy road book files always carry the trb extension To better sort your personal road books you may also organise the user roa dbooks directory in sub directories e g user roadbooks France for all your road books of Fran ce On the Tripy Il you shall go to Road books User to find the sub directories tree structure you have created and the personal road books you copied Some directories prefixed with the character may appear in the user roadbooks directory These are Tripy Il created directories after some operations e e g If you copy a road book from a USB stick the copied road book shall automatically be saved in a user roadbooks USB Import directory e Similarly the records made with the road book recorder are located in the user roadbooks reco directory e Finally a user roadbooks lastroutes directory shall appear as soon as you shall have asked Tripy ll to compute an itinerary It is indeed
63. rocedure to safely re move peripherals you shall find your My Home favorite back on your Tripy by going through the Destination Favorites Preferred menu When you select that favorite from the list up down arrow knobs to move into the list and OK knob to select one Tripy ll computes an itinerary to reach it An even more simple solution by means of the Windows notepad text editor open the userpol asc file and modify the POI headers between brackets Save then the file and do not forget to run the procedure allowing to safely remove peripherals before disconnecting the USB cable b POI s Under the user directory you shall find the POI directory It is in that directory that you shall be allowed to copy your POI Points Of interest files Tripy Il accepts the nvo files Tripy RoadTracer pro prietary format or asc files PoiEdit type of files Upon copying a POI file nvo or asc in the user poi Tripy II directory you may disconnect the Tripy Il from the PC after having run the procedure allowing to safely remove peripherals You shall then recover your POI lists on Tripy ll by going to the Destination Points of Interest User menu Lists of POI s like for example all the stores of a given vehicle brand all restaurants of such or sucha name a s o may easily be found on the Internet e g On sites such as http www gpspassion com
64. ry is filled at about 2000 mAh The flow may vary from 700 mA when the battery is depleted to less than 100 mA when the battery is almost full b Tips about how to handle the batteries The batteries used in Tripy Il are of the Lithium Polymer type They do not have a memory effect and may therefore be charged without having been beforehand completely unloaded In general terms you may always charge Iripy Il when you have the possibility to do so and so even If the battery is still loaded This way of doing will ensure having always the maximum capacity for your usage of Tripy Il It is advised against letting the Tripy Il batteries completely unload until device switching Off As soon as the battery indicator displays an empty battery none of the 4 black bars is displayed in the indicator it is urgent to set the device to charging Before starting a long period of storage of the Tripy Il it is advised to recharge Tripy ll at 75 of its total capacity 3 black bars in the battery level indicator During that period it is recommended to check the status of the battery every month and occasionally set the Tripy Il in charge to ensure a level of 75 3 black bars in the battery level indicator Despite the fact that Tripy II s batteries allow about 15 h of usage without re charging it is however possible to connect Iripy II to the vehicle power supply To implement such connection you shall exclu sively use the Tripy
65. s by default to head for the town centre The Validate key is already selected on the virtual keyboard If you do not want to head for a specific street in the selected town you may just press the OK knob to activate the function and head for that town centre c Routing profile At this stage you have already selected the country the town and street you wish to head for Remains to choose the routing profile Tripy Il shall use to compute the routing You have the choice between four profiles Fast by highways Fast without highways Leisure trip and Straight line com pass ROUTING PROFILE Fast Fast no toll Without highway Leisure trip Straight line compass e Fast This profile favors the use of highways For a short distance it is recommended not to use this profile as depending on the roads configuration where you are Tripy ll may tend to use a detour using highways e Fast no toll This profile is identical to the Fast profile and favours a motorway itinerary It will however avoid motorways with tolls e Leisure trip This profile favors an Itinerary by smaller roads Tripy II will always use secondary roads and favor roads tagged in Its map as offering touring benefit Of course no need to hope for a memorable Itinerary in a region where touring roads are non existing e Straight line compass This profile does not compute an itinerary but
66. scattered with waypoints see above waypoint 20 usually representing direc tion changes crossing round about a s o but may also represent an information important to the rider danger historical site to the right worthwhile restaurant a s o All these information are part of the whole digital road book and are stored in a file that will be read and interpreted by the Tripy II GPS upon riding of the itinerary The digital road book may be crafted by yourself by means of the RoadTracer software or automatically created by the Tripy ll GPS when you ask it to compute an itinerary towards your chosen destination Thanks to this precise and exhaustive definition of the Itinerary a Tripy digital road book will always be read by all Tripy GPS models without the need for interpretation or itinerary modification as commonly encountered with traditional GPS es re computing an Itinerary based on a list of waypoints In such a way three friends riding the same road book with Tripy are sure to meet at the same place for the lunch pause a Map display Like other GPS es Tripy offers a map type of display In this mode it represents a proximity map directed in the riding direction The zoom factor is adjustable from 100 m to 3 km In the bottom left corner of the screen one finds the reminder of the following road book waypoint next direction change and the distance to it 300 meters in the below example At the bottom of the scr
67. site scouting before starting Tripy Il offers the possibility to create beacon type road books By means of a simple list of points for which the GPS coordinates are known or points of interest on an exotic map of the world the Road racer software allows you to produce a beacon type itinerary It may then guide you from point to point by means of a compass indicator By means of an arrow the display continuously Indicates the direction to follow to reach the next point as well as the distance to It At any time you may also display the track to follow in the info border pane or toggle to the map display Even in our areas the compass type of display may be useful It allows you to reach a destination town POI or even GPS coordinate in a funny fashion letting you choose the road to use yet keeping an eye on the bearing Bens motto for this type of use Wandering wondering without worrying an achievable goal When you leave the Itinerary while Tripy Il displays the road book the display changes to the ribbon mode then the compass mode Under the ribbon mode you see the track you should have fol lowed versus your current position The compass indicates the straight line distance and direction of the next road book waypoint typically the next change of direction If automatic recalculation mode is activated see paragraph Advanced settings the compass display will only las
68. ssed on the menu knob until the list of additional functions is displayed re compute New target Show notes Reset road book trip Reset partial trip Reset total trip These functions allow you to e re compute an Itinerary in the instance you could not follow the original one display the waypoints pictograms of a road book even if you do not ride it reset the odometers leave the active road book e store the current position in the favorites or in the current recording a Re compute an itinerary to final destination This option activates an Itinerary calculation from the position you are at to the final destination of the itinerary being navigated You can use this option if you have left the itinerary and you want Tripy to recalculate a new route from the place you are to the final destination In this case Tripy will ask you to choose the calculation profile you wish to use to reach the final destination If you ride a road book manually and carefully crafted avoid this function that may re compute an itinerary totally different than the original one Favor in this ins LJ tance the re computing towards a given waypoint EA Toe 4 a le AAA A b Re compute towards a given waypoint This options runs an itinerary computation as from the current location to a given waypoint number of the navigated road book You may use this option if you have left the itinerary and wish that Tripy com putes
69. st common categories e Restaurants e Hotels e Campings e Gas stations e Cash dispensers e Hospitals In the last category titled All you will find all other available categories not solely the main ones The exhaustive list of these categories is the following Airport eu Amusement Park eu Beach eu Beaches Amusement parks Cash Dispenser eu Je SON Gre Cash dispensers Cinema eu Concert Hall eu Movie theatres Concert halls Doctor eu Exhibition Center eu Medical doctors Exhibition centers er ae Golf Course eu Ferry terminals Golf courses Ue a Se Hotel or Motel eu A Hotels Important Tourist Attraction eu Museum eu Petrol Station eu Pharmacy eu Tourist attractions Castles Forts Abbays Karting Museums Gas stations Stations de carburant Police Station eu na oy g m i F O Police stations Railway stations Restaurant eu Scenic_Panoramic View eu Scenic views Restaurants Shop eu iros Shopping Center eu nop Commercial centres Theatre eu Tourist Info Office eu Theatres Tourism bureaus Once a category is selected either from the most common categories or the exhaustive list you shall be able to choose the points of interest the closest to you option near me or nearest to a location option near location The further you go down the list further away ar
70. t a few seconds after which Tripy will automatically recalculate a new itinerary see paragraph Automatic recalculation 208 0 501 6 N 48 4725 0 2 4612 1 3 16 23 2 1 In the above example you may have to leave the itinerary because of road works At location A the vehicle carries on straight ahead instead of turning left You may see the different display types following each other on the Tripy starting from the ribbon display at the bottom 1 IT will be displayed in such a way as long as you remain close to the track If you carry on further away Tripy changes to the compass display 2 yet may at any time toggle to the map display 3 by means of a short pres sure on the OK knob If you did not expressly asked for the map display when reaching the point B the compass indicates a direction almost 90 degrees to the left 4 indicating clearly the need to bear left at the next opportunity At that same point B the map shows that at point 4 a road to the left will lead you back to the itinerary grey with white arrows In any case if you have left the itinerary you can always decide to rejoin it by letting the compass guide you or asking the Tripy II GPS to recalculate an itinerary manually or automatically according to the setting you entered in Advanced settings a Compass mode In the compass mode the thick black arrow indicates the directi
71. the cover is when you have connected the vehicle power cable Ref 9020 D es key The Tripy Il connector is used to recharge the device s batteries to connect the device to a PC by means of a USB connection or connect Tripy II to the vehicle power cable Ref 9020 The USB cable delivered with your Tripy ll is used both to connect Tripy ll to your PC and connect Tripy Il to its battery charger To connect the cable unscrew the Tripy Il connector s cover and connect the cable round male connector to the female connector at the back of Tripy Il The male connector shows a key that should fit the corresponding key of the Tripy female connector inserting should be easy never force it This connection is used to recharge the Tripy II batteries See paragraph 3 5 Handling the batte ries b Permanent connection to the vehicle power supply Before riding with Tripy Il connected to the cable Ref 9020 it is compulsory to screw the male connector of Ref 9020 in the connector at the rear of Tripy II to ensure the connection remains watertight The other end of cable Ref 9020 must be connected to your vehicle s electrical circuit according to the polarity c Connecting to the computer When connecting Tripy Il to a PC the computer shall recognize Tripy Il as a removable drive simi larly to a USB memory stick Once connected to the PC you may copy files from the PC towards the Tripy ll and from Tripy ll tow
72. the field above the virtual keyboard After introducing at least three letters Tripy II displays the number locations corresponding to the in troduced letters e g If you select France as destination country and introduce the three letters THI Tripy will indicate having found 125 towns containing the THI letters As soon as you shall have in troduced enough letters for Tripy II to find less than 10 results it will automatically present the results list If you introduce an erroneous letter you may delete it using the delete key of the virtual keyboard This key e allows you to delete the last introduced character backspace Select the delete key of the virtual keyboard then press the OK knob as many times necessary to delete one or several letters At any time you may select the Validate key on the virtual keyboard and press OK to go directly to the list In the given example if you validate after introducing the three letters THI you will obtain the list of 235 Items starting with Thiais Thiancourt Thianges a s o This list will be long to scan and it is preferable to introduce more letters to limit the amount of results If you introduce THIERY the search result will only contain 8 elements and Tripy II will automatically display the results list in which you will find Ch teau Thierry Faing Thierry Le Boullay Thierry etc When the name of the
73. the latest itineraries from the Tripy community on the www tripy eu website e create yourself your own Itineraries in a very accurate fashion thanks to specially rich and adapted maps topographic maps Michelin road maps a s o Our PC software RoadTracer Pro will allow you to enhance your itineraries with comments and pictograms displayed on the Tripy II GPS as you go along print a paper version of your road book display your trace on GoogleMAP Earth and much more e to drive a paper road book and use Tripy ll as a professional Trip master with the opportunity to use remote control for ease of use in a car total odometer with recalibration partial with reset to zero at a single touch intermediate In short with the Tripy Il GPS the road matters as much as the destination Wandering and wondering without worrying is now an accessible luxury a Whats a road book The road book is the set of instructions typically on paper allowing to follow a pre defined itinerary Road books sophistication and their reading accessories widely differ according to the application one day tourism multiple days tours off road rides rally s and raids The simplest road book is the list of towns often hand written with the road numbers you have sticked over your road map Commonly the road book will Indicate a simplified navigation pattern using symbolised sequential direction changes combined with millage indications partial and
74. the navigation screen To compute an itinerary towards a destination you recently introduced select the Recent function from the Destination menu You will then find a list of the 21 last destinations introduced in the Tripy Il After selecting a destination from the list Tripy Il offers you to choose the routing profile To know the details about the routing profile see paragraph 4 2 How to head for an address a Store the current position as a favorite Tripy ll allows you to store the GPS position you are at in order to be guided to it later on or to display this position on the PC by means of the RoadTracer software currently recording In this instance stop the road book recorder See paragraph O It is not possible to store your position as a favorite if the road book recorder is 8 How to record a road book scouting trip To store the current position press the OK knob and maintain it pressed until obtaining from Tripy Il a confirmation window like the following P006 Point stored find it in Destination Preferred If you store your position while away from the roads system e g In the middle of a field at sea in a country not included in Tripy II s European maps a s o only the Compass navigation will allow you to navigate towards this position the other routing profiles require that the destination be on the roads system to find a solution
75. to the itinerary computation See also paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy Il and PC c Favorites You will find infor mation about how to rename a favorite or display it on the PC b Compute an itinerary towards a favorite location To head for a previously stored favorite location select the Favorites Preferred function from the Destination menu You will then find a list of all your favorites by means of the up down or right left arrow keys select a favorite from the list and press OK Tripy ll offers you then to choose the routing profile To know the details about the routing profile see paragraph 4 2 How to head for an address c Routing profile Only the Compass navigation allows heading for a favorite location outside of the roads system R D f i eS T To find a point of interest and head for it select the Points of Interest function from the Destina tion menu A menu called Points of Interests will allow you to select the category you are looking for POINTS OF INTEREST The first category displayed in the Points of Interest menu is the User This is where you will find the list of points of interest you copied in the user roadbook poi directory See also paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy Il and PC c POI s You find then the mo
76. total The typical road book handed over at the start of an organised tour club or other organisation tT 07 Montespluga Locar gt A BT cep Montespluga 0 3 0 Locarno Stage 7 252 km Chiavenna S937 Largo Valichi Alpini Antonino Pio waypoint es pictogram total 5537 ones Dogana distance waypoint comment partial distance Saint Sils im Engadin Segl Moritz 3 The road book ts ideal to define an itinerary It offers an accurate representation of each direction change and provides also other added value information such as touristic danger areas tricky road bend gravel a s o sightseeing points quality inn s a s o Limiting the use of the traditional paper road book without a co pilot it is difficult to read while driving itis not resisting the weather conditions encountered by bikers and quad riders the measured millage is sometimes Inaccurate having gone astray It is difficult to return to the initial itinerary Tripy has combined the advantages of the paper road book with the GPS technology to offer a unique system the digital road book b Description of a digital road book Tans pictogram of waypoint 20 Li mo ee ie See In the RoadTracer software supplied with Tripy II the itinerary is represented by a trace composed of successive points linked by straight lines la small black arrow on each segment indicates the trace direction The trace is
77. tton in his her hands If you start the recorder RECO before starting a rally a note will be marked at each partial trip reset The record you will recover at the end of the rally will there 3 fore be equivalent to the ridden road book 9 4 Adjusting the total If upon passing a waypoint you may notice that the total is not exact anymore you may adjust the total odometer Use the right left arrow knobs to modify the total value As soon as you modify the total value a lock icon shows up next to the total It means that the total has been modified and the total distance count Is therefore interrupted When you wish to resume the distance counting starting from the value introduced on the total odometer press the OK knob The lock disappears and the counting resumes 10 How to measure lap times on a circuit Tripy Il incorporates a LAP timer function which measures lap time when we are driving on a circuit This function uses the GPS resources and does not therefore provide the precision of a precision stop watch as used in competition It is nevertheless easy to use and useful for an amateur who wants to check whether he she is improving You can access the Lap timer function starting from the main menu Select the TOOLS icon then select the Lap timer icon As soon as the function is selected Tripy displays a virtual keyboard and asks you to enter a name LAP by default This name will
78. w less contrast and left more contrast To perform a good contrast setting you shall sa turate the black of the first square to the left indicated by B If the setting is correct the second square to the right of the first one shall be dark grey almost black yet slightly less saturated than the square to the left Be E a gt ETE LAA 3 d r _ gt a b Back lighting setting From the main menu always accessible pressing the MENU knob you may reach the contrast set tings by going to Parameters Screen Using the up down arrow knobs you may activate the Back light or Base Light Once the cur sor activated the right amp left arrow knobs allows respectively to decrease or increase the screen back lighting The Back light cursor is for the standard lighting This lighting is the one you will be allowed to toggle by means of a short pressure on the ON OFF knob Pressing briefly the ON OFF knob will acti vate de activate the back lighting When you switch the back lighting On by means of a short pressure of the ON OFF knob you set the Tripy II in the permanent back lighting mode If you switch the back lighting Off by means of a short pressure of the ON OFF knob you set the Tripy Il in the automatic back lighting mode In the automatic back lighting mode Tripy ll switches the back lighting On amp Off when the situation requires it e g Back lighting is On as soon as you
79. www tripy eu fie LI User s manual Version MANQ020 REVA_EN This manual pertains to the revision 2 0 x of the Tripy II firmware TRIP II A IA e lo Fit AR ae _ 1 Table des matieres 1 Tripy Il much more than a GPS 2 Tripy Il concepts 2 1 Preliminary 2 2 Paper road book amp electronic road book a What s a road book b Description of a digital road book 2 3 How does Tripy Il navigate a Map display b road book display c The best of both worlds d A map to position yourself or visualize an itinerary 2 2 1 1 we o e Compass display beacon road book 2 4 What happens as one leaves the Itinerary a Compass mode aaa sa b If you leave the itinerary while Tripy Il displays the map c Manual re calculation of the itinerary d Manual re calculation of the itinerary 3 What you need to Know prior to using Tripy II 3 1 Tripy ll GPS knob functions 3 2 Switching ON switching OFF amp satellites synchronization a Starting Tripy Il b Satellites synchronization before departing c Switching Tripy II OFF d Automatic switch off 3 3 Language selection 3 4 Connecting Tripy ll to the outside world a Connecting to the battery charger b Permanent connection to the vehicle power supply 10 11 12 12 lt 13 19 19 16 17 19 2 19 19 20 21 21 23 y 20 24 x 2a 29 26 27 28 28
80. you to connect your Tripy Il to the computer Switch your Tripy ll On and connect the USB cable between the Tripy and the PC See paragraph 3 4 Connecting Tripy Il to the outside world topic c Connection to the computer The Tripy Il update program will check the updates available on the Tripy server If the server has a more recent version available than the one contained in your Tripy Il the Tripy ll update program downloads the new version and install It into Tripy Il 1 During this update process do not disconnect the Tripy Il and PC and let the PC ope rate without disruption until the end of the process When the update process Is completed the Tripy Il update program will indicate whether other updates are available In the instance that other updates are available for your Tripy Il disconnect the cable between Tripy ll and the PC relaunch the Tripy Il update program click once again on the link on the ww tripy eu website and repeat the process following the Tripy ll update program instructions As indicated in paragraph 3 9 Data transfer between Tripy Il and PC Tripy Il stores its data in a kind of hard disk containing two partitions in Its root e system directory e user directory The system directory contains all the vital information for the sound operation of the device Linux operating system map database parameter files programs a s o When you receive your new Tri

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