Nine chapters. Each one opens with the thing it describes, then lists what else lives there. Anything still experimental is marked.
Search a 200 m corridor along the whole route in one query, and get rows that answer “is it worth the detour, and will it be open?”
Pick a category and search a 200 m corridor along the whole route in one query. Hits come back in the order you’ll meet them; tick as many as you like, from the list or the map, and add them in one go.
Each hit crosses its opening hours with your projected arrival — move your start time and the verdict moves with it. Where the hours are too odd to read confidently it shows nothing, because a wrong “Open” is worse than silence.
The real round-trip detour, and which side of the road it’s on — read straight off the row.
Seasonal, Fee, Customers only, Private — and the things that justify the trip: Repairs, Pump, Free public pump. Water tagged undrinkable never reaches the list, because a water list exists to answer “can I fill a bottle”.
Five in a quick row — water, food, coffee, viewpoint, generic — and fifty more behind a searchable page, grouped the way you’d go looking. Type “pharm” if you know the word, browse the headings if you don’t.
Draw a route on the map, browse what your ELEMNT already carries, and keep a library on your phone.
Tap waypoints on the map, pick trekking, fast bike or shortest, and preview distance and ascent before you commit. A shape toggle closes the loop back to where you started.
Routes are files on your phone: searchable, sortable by most recent or nearest start, with a map crop on every row and a star for the ones you keep coming back to. A finished ride can join the library too — pick one and ride it again.
The import picker lists the courses your head unit is actually carrying, whatever put them there — newest first, searchable, however many hundreds there are. Tap one and it pulls and imports.
Splice a place into the line you are already riding — as a via-point to the finish, or a there-and-back that rejoins where you left.
Pick a place and either re-plan from there to the finish, or take a there-and-back that rejoins where you left — the rest of the route untouched. The extra distance is measured against what’s left to ride, and none of it needs a GPS fix. Preview, apply, then send.
“Marktplatz Stuttgart” or just “bakery” returns real places ranked near you, each with a one-line address. Or skip typing and share a pin in from Google or Apple Maps — you get the actual place, not the map viewport.
Phone to device over Bluetooth, stops intact, cue noise under your control.
The route goes straight from your phone to the ELEMNT over Bluetooth — no Wi-Fi, no cloud step in between — and the moment it lands, the unit loads it and starts navigating.
Marked stops travel with the route and appear on the device as you ride past them — the whole point of the exercise.
An imported course is mostly cue noise. Per route or as a default: send every cue, thin to the ones that need a decision, or strip to a clean breadcrumb — and slide the survivors up to 200 m if they fire too early. The saved route keeps every cue, so it stays re-tunable after the ride.
Every ride in one list, pulled off the head unit over Bluetooth and uploaded to Strava on its own.
Every ride in one date-ordered list, whether it’s already on your phone or still only on the head unit. A ride that’s been pulled appears once, so the list reads as “my rides” rather than as sync state.
Pull completed rides off the device over Bluetooth — one, or all at once, with per-ride progress and retry. The list streams in as it goes.
Opt in and pulled rides upload themselves, oldest first. Going offline or hitting a rate limit parks the queue; it picks up again at the next app start, foreground return or pull.
The forecast where and when you will actually be there — and a sunscreen rule that models the sun rather than a timer.
The advisor finds the cheapest rain-and-headwind window on its own.
Head and tailwind resolved along your actual heading, at the time you’ll be there — not raw wind speed at the trailhead, now.
Sweeps departure times across the next 12 hours and recommends the cheapest rain-and-headwind window. One tap applies it — instant, offline-safe, no extra fetches.
Rain onset, headwind, temperature swings and gusts — evaluated ahead of your position, off a prefetched cache, with per-kind cooldowns.
Set your skin type and the head unit nudges you to reapply. The interval scales with the UV index and gates on how high the sun actually is, and the clock only runs while you’re riding in sunlight.
Your own trigger→message rules, written to the screen in front of you, gated by conditions so they stay quiet when they should.
—and the preview shows the exact words that land on the screen.
Interval and threshold triggers, conditions that gate them, per-rule cooldowns. Presets ship for hydration (suppressed on a steep descent), fuel, heart-rate zones, weather and sunscreen. Phone notifications ride the same channel — messages, email and missed calls, framed for the device’s screen. Android only, since iOS has no equivalent access to grant.
One trigger — every N minutes, or a metric crossing a threshold — an optional condition, the message the device shows, and a cooldown, with a live preview of the exact notification. A rule you tuned stays tuned across restarts and updates.
A live link that survives tunnels, restarts and expiry — and lets friends message you back.
Group rides: everyone on one shared map, live.
Flip the switch and friends open a link — no account, no app — to watch the ride move on a map. The link expires by itself after six hours.
Progress only moves forwards, so an out-and-back or a wrong turn can’t rewind it. A paused rider shows PAUSED, not a dot that quietly stopped moving — and elapsed time is moving time, so a long lunch doesn’t drag the arrival estimate for the rest of the ride.
The app checks in every five minutes, and the first position through after a gap checks in straight away — so a two-hour valley costs you the valley, not another five minutes on top. A session that expired without you stopping it comes back on the same link. A ride you actually ended stays ended.
Toggle Group ride when going live, or start one mid-ride; buddies join by link or QR code. Everyone sees everyone on one merged map. Ten riders, twelve hours.
A contact you’ve marked can-message gets a compose box on their tracking page. A recent send reaches the head unit’s screen; anything staler waits in an in-app list you read on your own time, never interrupting mid-descent. 160 characters, three per contact per hour, and a kill switch that closes every compose box mid-ride without ending the share.
Say what you need without stopping. A keyword grammar answers instantly and offline; an on-device model steps in only when that misses.
The mic button and its commands ship today. Reaching the same commands from Siri, Gemini or an earbud long-press is built, but not yet verified on hardware.
Say “send me to the nearest water source” — also: send the route, start or stop live share, find my device. English and German, across 18 kinds of place. A keyword grammar answers first, instantly and offline; an on-device model steps in only if that misses. Nothing spoken ever leaves the phone.
The same commands exposed as OS-assistant intents, so they run without opening the app. On iOS Siri confirms in its own dialog; on Android a command that needs confirming opens the app and asks there. Not yet verified on hardware — it works, but it hasn’t been through a full run on a phone yet.
Two things still finding their feet on real hardware, and one thing left out on purpose.
A library plus an interval builder — duration by time, distance or open-ended, targets by power, heart rate or cadence — turned into a workout file and pushed to the head unit. Not yet verified on hardware — the builder is finished, but a pushed workout hasn’t been ridden yet.
A second head-unit family is taking shape alongside the ELEMNT one. Sending a route to an Edge 540 works today, along with pairing, reading the device and making it beep. Pulling rides, pushing workouts and on-screen alerts are built but not yet verified on hardware. Live telemetry carries heart rate, power and cadence, though not position — so live sharing on a Garmin uses the phone’s GPS. Experimental until the rest catches up.
No live telemetry dashboard on the phone — the head unit is the instrument, and duplicating speed or heart rate on a phone screen is what a phone is worst at. And no segments: getting one from phone to head unit isn’t something BikeOtter can do reliably, so rather than ship a half-working version, it leaves them out.
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