VMS SAN DIEGO wrote:
Rob, nice little review. To be honest, we've heard more than a few negs over that Mia app. Now that you have played with it a bit, do you think it's something you would use regularly, or is it more work than it's worth? No right or wrong answer... just looking for educated user feedback. T
Last year, when we had the 22 super tech models, the Vespa app was just pretty much garbage. The navigation was hard to use on the Vespa itself. It's changed for the 23 model year and FOR THE BETTER!!
The Vespa App itself makes it fairly easy to propagate the navigation data to the screen, you simply enter the address in the navigator and once you hit go, the data is now being shared with the Super Tech display. If it doesn't pop up, you hold the joy stick to the right until it does pop up, the display will switch from regular data to the nav screen. You switch back to the regular display the same way, holding that joystick to the right. <<< This is important, because if you don't read the manual, you have real way to know how to switch back and forth >>>
The Nav has helped me a few times, versus having to mount my phone, which I do not want to do as it would be too distracting and info overload for me. I agree with Robot, the Maps on the phones are better, but the simplicity of having it in the head unit display is handy and not at all info overload.
The tricky part is when you have three super techs (I know, not really a problem

) --- in this situation, you can keep all three (or any vespa with bluetooth) paired to your phone, but in terms of using the nav, you would have to delete the last paired Vespa (the one that has the bluetooth bubble on the vehicle display, under vehicles, in the app). Then you add the one you want to use the Nav on, it takes all of 10 seconds so it's not really a big deal at all. Basically, the limitations of this app are that it only has map support for one Super Tech.
Vespa probably figures most people only have one, so I doubt they will make changes to the app, though I have suggested it, I doubt my suggestion gets any traction at Piaggio. It's not hard to add and connect the Vespa you are currently using.
One really cool thing about the App is that it has live data flowing to it, I thought it was interesting to see the RPM's and the coolant temperature, info you can't get on the display but you can get through the app. Pretty cool stuff.
So in short, the app was total shit before but has usefulness now and they've streamlined the way that the Vespas pair now, which is far far better than before, so yes, with the new Vespa line-up, the App is starting to shine a bit more.
It's graduated a bit, just like the GTS did!