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lacbiot

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Has anyone succeeded to run the Navicon/Navibridge app and connect it to the MMCS ? From the descrptions, this App allows to manage and load your own Pois, and you can prepare your itineraries on the iPhone/Android at home, and then load them to the SatNav of the MMCS in the car.

You can load the app from the app store (I suppose Google as well), it is called Navicon on the Japanese App store, and Navibridge on the non Japanese ones.

Mitsubishi says on many (Google translated) websites that Navicon works with the PHEV, you can even find videos as a proof... For NaviBridge, I have not found any website that says it works with the PHEV... Navibridge is provided by Denso, the company which obviously has developped the MMCS for Mitsubishi, and Navicon by Mitsubishi (seems) in Japan.

I have both NaviBridge and Navicon on my iphone (both apps are exactly similar, it was a bit complicated to get Navicon from the Japanese appstore...), but I never succeeded to connect them to my MMCS -wifi, bluetooth or usb..., it looks like there is a kind of setting in the MMCS that prevents it to work with non Japanese PHEVs, probably because there is no commercial agreement between both companies outside of Japan. But technically there is no reason it could not work, I guess (I even tried to reconfigure my iphone in japanese, just to check).

I am not Japanese reader, nore knowledgeable enough in iphone apps to make it run... Does anybody want to try on Android (I only have an iphone) ? Or interested to crack this ? I find the app cool enough to investigate, and would be interested to know whether it would be possible with it to load the speed camera Pois onto the MMCS...

BTW, regarding the speed cameras, I had imagined in a separate process (before) to replace the yellow "danger" warnings by speed cameras POIs instead, the behaviour of the satnav is a bit similar (warning 100 meters before). Issue is that the format of the SatNav database is a bit complicated (called KIWI, there is some litterature here and there about it) to make a kind of search and replace... This should still be possible though as "Here" is capable of loading in the MMCS additional (but far from being complete) charging spots via the SD card (pls see other posts in this forum)... Anyone interested by that one as well ?
 
Are you sure that this applies to the standard MMCS? Someone was asking a similar question a couple of months ago and it subsequently transpired that he owned a GX3 that had the aftermarket SatNav fitted by the dealer. I believe that is manufactured by Standard Horizon and there are mobile phone apps on the web stores that claim to work with it.
 
This comes straight from the Japanese Mitsubishi PHEV website, and their MMCS looks identical to ours (mine is a french one "Instyle" model with all options probably UK's GX4h?)
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ja&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=fr&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mitsubishi-motors.co.jp%2Foutlander_phev%2Futility%2Futi_01.html&edit-text=&act=url
There are as well many websites such as the one below:
http://translate.google.fr/translate?hl=fr&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fminkara.carview.co.jp%2Fuserid%2F1794310%2Fblog%2F32834291%2F
 
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