Ecoroute MPG estimate is accurate
Mon, 09/24/2012 - 7:20pm
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13 years
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Ecoroute logs my last 30hrs driving and gives me an estimate MPG.
at the same time i enter into my gps miles traveled and gallons refueled whenever i fill up.
i take that file into excel and avg my mpg.
for the past 30hrs (forgot how many hundreds of gallons of gas), ecoroute calc my mpg=33.6.
the excel file says 33.5mpg
the hardware option?
In speaking of Ecoroute here, are you discussing a system with the hardware option which has a direct connection to the vehicle's diagnostic bus, or are you discussing the bit of software which for examples lives behind an ecoroute icon on my 3790, but gets nothing to work with but GPS-derived information and a user enterd city and highway mpg estimate?
personal GPS user since 1992
Ecoroute
It really only works if you religiously enter all the info at every fill-up as well as turn the GPS on each and every time you drive your car. Forget it once for one hour, sitting with the car idling for a long time will mess it up.
archae86, NO there is no wired connection to the cars system.
Nuvi 2797LMT, DriveSmart 50 LMT-HD, Using Windows 10. DashCam A108C with GPS.
there are two kinds of eco-Route
It really only works if you religiously enter all the info at every fill-up as well as turn the GPS on each and every time you drive your car. Forget it once for one hour, sitting with the car idling for a long time will mess it up.
archae86, NO there is no wired connection to the cars system.
Melaqueman, there are two different devices labeled Eco-Route. One is a hardware device that plugs into the OBD-II port and communicates to some models using Bluetooth and others that have a feature built in to the GPS. It sounds as if you are only familiar with the joke that is in the GPS.
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I lost interest in this feature after only having it for two weeks - it is a novelty and too much maintenance to be worth it.
JRoz -- DriveSmart 55 & Traffic
The wired
Melaqueman, there are two different devices labeled Eco-Route. One is a hardware device that plugs into the OBD-II port and communicates to some models using Bluetooth and others that have a feature built in to the GPS. It sounds as if you are only familiar with the joke that is in the GPS.
The wired device is actually called ecoRoute HD while the feature built into many newer Nuvi models is just called ecoRoute.
Nuvi 350, 760, 1695LM, 3790LMT, 2460LMT, 3597LMTHD, DriveLuxe 50LMTHD, DriveSmart 61, Garmin Drive 52, Garmin Backup Camera 40 and TomTom XXL540s.
EcoRoute hardware device
It really only works if you religiously enter all the info at every fill-up as well as turn the GPS on each and every time you drive your car. Forget it once for one hour, sitting with the car idling for a long time will mess it up.
archae86, NO there is no wired connection to the cars system.
Melaqueman, there are two different devices labeled Eco-Route. One is a hardware device that plugs into the OBD-II port and communicates to some models using Bluetooth and others that have a feature built in to the GPS. It sounds as if you are only familiar with the joke that is in the GPS.
yes, talking about the optional $99 hardware device that plugs into the OBD-II port and communicates to the garmin GPS via Bluetooth.
will update my OP to clear up the confusion.
also, Since my gps is always plugged into my cigarette lighter, it turns on whenever i start the car.
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doh.. cant edit my OP
guess i'm not allowed to edit once someone posts a reply?
Yes, but
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edit:
doh.. cant edit my OP
guess i'm not allowed to edit once someone posts a reply?
Yes you can, but it's not in the normal lower right side. Look to the top of your OP and you should see an Edit tab.
I had to have to pointed out to me, so we can conclude it's easy to miss. This is true only for the original post in a thread. For replies, you can edit up until someone replies to your reply...