JakubandClaude Opus 5.5
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Short pages by feature (getting started, messages, contacts, navigation,
tools, settings, lock, hardware) instead of one page per OLED screen, with
Wio Tracker L2 differences as notes; facts checked against the code
(keyboard scripts vs. hold-for-accents, {batt}/{dist}, L2 limits and
settings layout). Developer guides and build flags under docs/solo/developer.
Old docs/solo_features and its ~50 screenshots removed; a hero banner and
three simulator screenshots added; links updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Navigation
Everything here works from the device's own GPS; no magnetometer or extra hardware is needed. Distances and speeds follow Settings › System › Units (metric or imperial).
Trail
Tools › Trail records your route in the background while you use the rest of the device (a blinking G in the status bar). Straight stretches are stored as their two ends, so the 512 points cover a long route. Left / Right switches between the Summary (distance, time, speed or pace), the Map (your route, waypoints, people sharing their position, the target) and the point List.
Hold Enter for the trail menu: start / stop, mark a waypoint, the waypoint list, Track back (retrace the route to where it started), share your position, the trail file, and the trail settings:
- Min dist: how far apart points are recorded.
- Auto-pause: pauses the trail after you stop for 1–5 minutes and resumes when you move, so breaks don't count.
- Mark avg: averages the GPS for 5–30 seconds when marking a waypoint.
- Auto-save: saves the trail when the device powers off, including a low-battery shutdown.
The trail lives in memory: save it (Trail file › Save) or turn on Auto-save to keep it through a reboot.
GPX export
Connect USB, open Solo Tools in
Chrome or Edge and click Connect device, then on the device choose
Trail file › Export. The GPX includes your waypoints. Without a browser,
uv run tools/trail_export.py does the same. Disconnect the phone app first if
it's connected over USB.
Note
Wio Tracker L2: the trail holds 4096 points and is drawn on the map. Its controls (start / stop, save, load, track back, reset) are in the map's Map tools, the settings in Settings › Map. GPX writes the trail to the SD card; take it off with the card as a USB drive (Hardware).
Waypoints
A waypoint is a saved spot (the car, a camp, water) with a short label, up to 16 of them, kept through reboots. Add one with Mark here at your position, or + Add by coords to type coordinates. The list starts with Trail start, so you can always go back to where the trail began.
Hold Enter on a waypoint: Rename, Delete, Send (as a message to a contact or channel) and Set as target.
Note
Wio Tracker L2: up to 64 waypoints. The pin button on the map opens the list; hold a spot on the map to make it a waypoint or the target.
Navigating to something
Navigate on a waypoint, a node in Nearby or a location in a message opens
the navigation view: the distance, the bearing To the target and your own
heading (Hdg), with the time to arrival once you're getting closer. Turn
until the two bearings match. The heading comes from your movement, so it
shows -- while you stand still.
Tools › Compass shows the same heading as a scrolling tape with the degrees and direction.
Note
Wio Tracker L2: the target is drawn on the map with a line to it, and a bar with distance, bearing, heading and time to arrival. The Compass app is a turning dial.
Sharing locations
- Once: Share my pos in the trail menu sends your position to a contact or channel you pick.
- A waypoint: Send in the waypoint menu.
- Live: Tools › Live Share sends your position while you move, to one contact or channel, for 1 to 12 hours. It only sends after you've moved (50–500 m) and never more often than you set; an optional heartbeat repeats it while you stand still.
With Track loc on in Live Share, other people's shares show on the map and in Nearby, with live distance and bearing.
Locations travel as ordinary text ([LOC]lat,lon, or [WAY]lat,lon label
for a waypoint), readable in the phone app and on other firmware. On the
receiving side, hold Enter on the message to navigate to it, save it or
set it as the target.
Locator
Tools › Locator alerts you when you cross a circle around a target: arriving at a waypoint, leaving it, or a person coming near or moving away.
- Target: a waypoint (a fixed place) or a contact (follows their live share, else their last known position).
- Radius: 50 m to 1 km.
- Mode: alert on arriving, leaving, or both.
- Beeper: ticks faster as you get closer, even when the sound is muted.
Set as target in Nearby, the waypoint list or a message sets the target in one step. The target shows as a flag on the map.
Map
The Map home page shows your position, the trail, waypoints, people sharing their position and the target. Enter opens the trail map; hold Enter shares your position.
Note
Wio Tracker L2: a real map with offline tiles on the SD card. Drag to pan, +/− to zoom, the crosshair follows your GPS again.
- Download: frame an area on the map and download its tiles over WiFi. Downloaded areas can be renamed, refreshed or deleted.
- Live tiles: with WiFi on, tiles for where you look are fetched and cached, up to the size set in Settings › Storage.
- Vector regions: whole regions as packs made with
tools/maps/osm_vector.py, copied to the card.The minimap on the home screen shows your surroundings at a glance; tap it for the full map. The Nodes map shows every node with a position.