The application shows direction you should walk to get the target position like your home, hotel or parked car. Additionally, it says how far your from the target in km/miles/meters and what is your walking/sailing speed in km/miles/knots.

When you lost in forest/mountains or in crowded city, when you travel, climbing or fishing, save your position like parked car, shelter or hotel, and then navigate back following the guiding arrow.

Features:

  • Navigation to target waypoint with compass heading.
  • Displays distance between start and end point in meters, km, miles.
  • Displays walking speed in km/h, mi/h, knots.
  • Displays altitude in meters or feets.
  • Displays GPS details.
  • Displays sunrise and sunset times.
  • Displays sun position on the sky.
  • Displays decimal and UTM coordinates.
  • Traditional compass function.
  • Works offline.
  • Simple and intuitive UI.
  • Battery friendly UI.

How to use?

  1. Go outdoor. Run the app. Enable GPS/Location in watch settings.
  2. Wait 1-3 minutes until your watch configure signal from GPS satellites (GPS fix).
  3. When you see green satellite icon click + icon to add your current position like home, hotel, shelter in mountains or just parked car.
  4. Now you can exit the app. Your position was saved.
  5. When you want back to saved position launch the app. Wait for green satellite icon and click left, location icon. From the waypoints list choose a position you want to navigate back.
  6. The top, white arrow shows you current heading. To get the target/saved position you must much a red point with white, top arrow. The red point is you saved position like home or parked car. You navigate to this point.
  7. When you heading correct the distance counter is decreased. You are getting closer to your target.
  8. Click left button to get more details about your target like geographical coordinates or distance to the target.

The application works offline. It doesn’t use Internet connection.

It doesn’t use any maps. You navigate using compass heading.

It is fully standalone app. It uses GPS and compass sensor built-in your watch. You don’t need your phone to use this app.

Compass Navigation supports smartwatches Huawei Watch 3, 4 (all variants) and sport watches Watch 3, 4, Ultimate, Runner, Fit 2 and probably more we didn’t test.

GUIDES

Press materials

Below you find graphics, banners and screenshots for phone and watch version. ZIP archive must be unzipped to any folder.

Now you can download Compass Navigation from HUAWEI AppGallery.

Note: launch AppGallery inside your phone with connected smartwatch.

Troubleshooting

Compass and Navigation doesn’t work
Please do following:
1. Use app outdoor. At home/office gps signal is too weak and app might not work.
2. Enable Location/GPS in watch’s settings.
3. Launch the app and wait 1-3 minutes. It needs time to configure gps satellites (GPS fix).
4. When satellite icon goes green you can navigate.

If still you can’t navigate please restart your watch. Just turn it off for a moment.


2 Komentarze

luciano · 14 września, 2021 o 10:29 am

it looks great, how to download this app?

    Admin · 15 września, 2021 o 8:43 am

    Just open Health application in your phone and choose Device/Apps. Prior your watch must be connected to phone by Bluetooth. Or open AppGallery in your watch directly.

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