Getting installed, and everything you can say.
Installing on iPhone, moving the map with gloves on, and every voice command the ASK assistant understands. Each voice command works in Danish or English, with the visor down and both gloves on the bars. Keep this page open the first time you ride with it.
Install on iPhone · Safari.
Moto Mesh runs on iPhone as a web app. Open app.moto-mesh.com in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen, and open it from the new icon rather than a browser tab · a tab does not keep the microphone and camera permission between sessions, so it asks every time.
Install: Open app.moto-mesh.com in Safari · tap the Share button · choose Add to Home Screen · open Moto Mesh from the new icon, not the browser tab.
Microphone and camera: The first time you tap ASK or VIDEO, Safari asks for permission · choose Allow. If you declined, go to iPhone Settings · Apps · Safari · Microphone or Camera and set Allow, then reload the app.
Location: iPhone Settings · Privacy and Security · Location Services · Safari Websites · While Using the App, and turn Precise Location on. Keep the app in the foreground while riding · on iPhone the intercom talks while the screen is on; the background intercom is the Android app’s native power.
If they cannot hear you: Hearing the group means the headset is connected and only the microphone path is broken. In order: iPhone Settings · Apps · Safari · Microphone, set to Allow. Then Settings · Bluetooth · tap the i beside your headset · Device Type · Headphones, never Speaker, which tells iPhone the device has no microphone. Then reseat the microphone cable at the helmet cradle, point the marked side of the foam at your mouth, and check the mic is not muted in the headset maker’s own app. Still nothing: make an ordinary phone call. If your voice fails there too it is the headset or the pairing, not Moto Mesh.
Moving the map with gloves on.
The map answers seven gestures. The one worth learning first is double-tap, hold, then drag · tap twice and keep your finger down on the second tap, then slide up or down to zoom smoothly. It needs one finger instead of two, so it is the only zoom that works reliably through a winter glove.
Double-tap, hold and drag: Zoom smoothly with one finger. The only zoom that works reliably wearing gloves. Double-tap: Zoom in one step. Two-finger tap: Zoom out one step. Pinch: Zoom in or out freely. Twist with two fingers: Rotate the map. Drag two fingers up or down: Tilt the map between flat and a low riding angle. Drag with one finger: Pan the map.
What happens to the camera. While navigating, the map follows you and turns with you. The moment you use any of those gestures the camera lets go and stays exactly where you put it · your zoom, your angle, your corner of the map. Nothing drags it back. When you want to be followed again, tap the round centre button on the right of the screen. The bracket button above it fits the whole route on screen instead.
On a bike, set what you want before you pull away. Every one of these also works while stopped at lights, and none of them needs both hands.
The riding screen, and what the app does on its own.
Once navigation starts the app stops asking for your attention. Riders get a black screen with the next turn and nothing else; the owner keeps the map. Everything below happens without a tap, and the few taps that exist are big enough for gloves.
Riders see the riding screen: Black, so the phone runs cool and the battery lasts. The next turn and its distance, your speed, the speed limit at the top left, and who is talking at the right. It opens by itself when you join, and again every time you come back to the app.
The menu · top right: Tap ☰ for EDIT ACTION BUTTONS, MUSIC and SHOW THE MAP. MUSIC opens your own player and brings you straight back. Hold anywhere on the riding screen for three seconds to leave it for the full map; the same hold brings it back.
Action buttons: SHOW ACTION BUTTONS puts your four alerts along the bottom of the riding screen · hazard, stop, slow down, regroup · one tap each, and everyone hears it. Hold any button to change what it does. SOS sits above them and sends your position to the whole group.
The owner’s navigation card: Four icons across the top of the card: MINIMAL, MUTE, THEME and VIEW. PAUSE NAVI and HAND OVER below. HAND OVER passes the lead to a rider without stopping the ride; whoever leads is whose ETA the group sees. The DIM button gives an owner the same black screen on a long straight · hold three seconds to get the map back.
One ETA for the whole group: The navigator’s clock is the group’s clock. Riders see the same arrival time on their card, adjusted as the ride goes, so nobody argues about when the coffee stop is.
Quieter guidance: In town the navigator says two things per turn: “In 80 metres, turn left”, then “turn left”. On a fast road it says three. A road that merely changes its name is not a turn and is not announced. Turns close together are chained: “turn right, then turn left”.
Arriving: You have arrived within 40 metres of the destination, or within 80 metres once you have stopped · a bike parked in the driveway has arrived. Navigation ends by itself.
LEAVE asks first: One tap on LEAVE at a standstill used to drop you out of the group. Now it asks. If the link drops on its own, the app shows RECONNECTING with a RETRY, keeps your callsign and group, and rejoins the moment the signal returns · you never see the join screen mid-ride.
Battery and heat: While navigating the map draws at a lower resolution than the screen can show, hides 3D buildings above 25 km/h, and only redraws when you move · standing at a light costs nothing. On a bike charger the phone should hold its level. If yours does not, ride once with the app and tell us; every ride records the numbers that show why.
Updates keep the ride: When a new version is ready the app says so. Updating restarts the app in a few seconds and keeps your route, your navigation at the same turn, and your place in the group · nothing to set up again. On the riding screen the circular arrow left of the lock checks for an update whenever you want; the app tells you afterwards which version you are on.
Who is talking: Each speaker shows as a coloured circle with their name under it, at the top right, growing to the left as more people talk. When nobody talks the space is empty, so the next turn is never covered.
Riders never need to touch any of this. Join, put the phone in the mount, ride.
Talk to it. Keep both gloves where they belong.
Gloves and touchscreens have never got on. Say the wake word and finish the sentence with the visor down. It listens in English and in Danish, and works out which you are speaking on its own.
Go somewhere: Moto, take me to Roskilde · Moto, take me home (Danish: Moto, kør mig til Kødbyen i København)
Make a loop: Moto, make a 100 km curvy loop to the north (Danish: Moto, lav en rundtur på 150 km)
Follow the coast: Moto, follow the coast for 150 km (Danish: Moto, lav en kystrute på 150 km)
Choose the route: Moto, next route · Moto, save this one · Moto, start this
Explore new roads: Moto, explore · Moto, backroads (Danish: Moto, udforsk)
Add a rule: stay in the country you start in · avoid towns · no ferries · end at home
Mid ride: Moto, find the nearest fuel · Moto, add a coffee stop · Moto, how far to go
Quiet: Moto, stop listening · or press ASK
A distance and a direction give the best loops. Name the town as well as the district for small places. Your route settings apply to spoken routes too, and it reads them back before it builds.
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