Garmin Rv 785 & Traffic, Advanced Gps Navigator For Rvs With Built-In Dash Cam, High-Res 7 Touch Dis
Garmin RV 785 & Traffic, Advanced GPS Navigator for RVs with Built-in Dash Cam, High-res 7 Touch Display, Voice-Activated Navigation
- Custom routing takes into account the size and weight of your RV then finds the best route for your vehicle.Control Method:Voice.Special Feature:Built-In Dash Cam; Custom Routing; Driver Alerts; Live Traffic Info; Hands-Free Features.
- Provides road warnings to keep you aware of steep grades, sharp curves, weight limits and more
- Includes a directory of RV parks and services plus integrated content from Ultimate Public Campgrounds, KOA, overlanded, PlanRV, TripAdvisor, Foursquare and more
- Pair with your compatible smartphone to gain access to hands-free calling and smart notifications; also includes voice-activated navigation for convenience on the road
Brand : Garmin
Category : Electronics,GPS, Finders & Accessories,Sports & Handheld GPS,Handheld GPS Units
Rating : 4.4
Review Count : 1063
ChildASIN : B07SVDCC8R
Garmin RV 785 & Traffic, Advanced GPS Navigator for RVs with Built-in Dash Cam, High-res 7 Touch Display, Voice-Activated Navigation
- Edit - Added photos of a home made bracket for the Garmin in order to mount in my F150.I owned an older Garmin unit for a few years (before it was liberated through the freshly broken window of my car) and I liked the way it worked as back then cell phone navigation was in its infancy. This unit was purchased for the sole purpose of navigation with a 30\' conventional trailer. I like the magnetic base which has not dropped the unit over its initial 500 mile trip. It is easy for the passenger to grab the unit off of this base and look up or adjust routes as needed. And, it is convenient when leaving the vehicle for short periods of time. I have enjoyed all the extra features so far. The connection to my phones Bluetooth for traffic and weather are great.The unit APPEARS to properly route me away from unknown roads and low bridges. It does warn about roads that it does not know are of capacity for your tow vehicle (once you are on them) So, it does supply a level of comfort to reduce driving stress. However, I am still verifying my route with the $10 road atlas from FlyingJ before heading out.It also has a tendency to keep you on large highways to and from your destination. Therefore, the route shaping feature is mandatory if you dislike this guidance style. I prefer the old state routes at times, especially when they are the most straight route to my destination. The unit also has a tendency to go straight through big cities of there is an interstate available. I prefer to go around to avoid the snark of gridlock and never ending lane changes in heavy traffic. The route shaping feature does lock up at 80-90% completion at times and it appears to be possibly caused when one selects a road that your rig size would conflict with. However, simply cancelling our of the calculation and starting over seems to work well.This unit does however do a few things that are very anoying. The unit will try to guess your location while you are typing it into the address section. But it does not allow easy entry for the state your are wanting to search. From Ohio, it defaults to Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania. One has to jump through hoops to get the unit to consider Michigan or Kentucky. Finding specific small campgrounds is cumbersome as they just are not always considered by the unit in the first or second go around. Even with a fresh map update, the unit could not identify Indian Springs Camp Ground in Indiana. Direct address entry did not work, and like my old Garmin, it is fussy about the naming of county roads, road vs rd, etc. Even locating it in the map was of no use as it just didn\'t want to accept this location. We instead, selected the gravel quarry close by and eyeballed the last little bit. Once we were there, the unit would find the camp again. At one time, the unit mislocated the camp to an open field 20 minutes away based on its campground database.Upon arrival and connection via Wi-Fi to my home internet, after a few short downloads it said it was up to date. YOU MUST SPECIFICALLY PLUG THIS UNIT INTO A USB CORD TO DOWNLOAD THE MAPS AFTER FULLY CHARGING THE UNIT. NO MATTER WHAT THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY. No matter how hard I tried, the unit would not down load the maps over wifi. And, as with most products, this initial map update takes hours. It is not ready to go out of the box. Map downloads seem old as well. We covered roads that appeared to be changed (roundabouts and such) for some time yet they are not in the updates. ISo, 4 stars is the best I can do with star #4 being mostly for the reassurance of pulling the trailer with less worry about route capacity for my rig.
- I wanted a motorhome GPS with a built-in dashcam so I was looking at the dezlCam 785 but ended up purchasing an RV 780 and a dedicated dashcam just before the RV 785 came out. I was able to return the RV 780 because I was within 30 days of purchase. (The dezlCam is pronounced \"diesel cam\" and is for over-the-road truckers.)The only bug so far is that I have all notifications turned off in the Garmin Drive app yet new emails and texts still appear on the RV 785. (I have another device running off Garmin Drive and it respects the \"no notifications\" setting so it\'s not me doing something wrong.)The RV 785 is much heavier than the RV 780 due to its rubber case (which is good) and that helps keep it in place on the motorhome dash better, although the \"bean bag\" mount still shifts somewhat when hitting bridge joints and similar. I ended up putting a small piece of Velcro under the \"bean bag\" mount because the slight movement of the RV 785 position not only changed the viewing angle, it changed the dashcam aim and its associated features.The dashcam lens is fixed, which is disappointing because earlier dezlCam units had a lens that could be pivoted left-right and that allowed the driver to angle the GPS towards them while keeping the dashcam aimed straight ahead. The dezlCam 785 also has a fixed lens. The dezlCam 785 specs show a 50-degree viewing angle, so +/- 25 degrees off-center, which is incredibly narrow for a dashcam. I could not find the viewing angle spec for the RV 785 but I suspect it\'s the same.In practice, the limited viewing angle did not turn out to be as big a deal in our motorhome as it would be in a car. Because the RV 785 sits on the dash (for me) it\'s actually a couple of feet back from the windshield, unlike on a car. Also unlike a car, a motorhome has a very large front \"blind spot\" due to the height of the driver and the large dashboard between the driver and the windshield. Our motorhome has a 13\' blind spot because its dash is angled down but other motorhomes with a flat dashboard can have a blind spot over 20\'. If you are using the RV 785 in a Class B, Class C, or with a towable trailer the limited dashcam viewing angle may be more or a big deal for you.When searching for a campground you\'ll see the same campground listed multiple times with data and reviews from the multiple sources (TripAdvisor, etc.) and that brings all of the information together with different perspectives. That\'s very handy if you\'re not familiar with the campground.We\'ve only encountered one height-limited bridge so far and the RV 785 directions perfectly matched the campground directions to avoid it. Google Maps, Waze and Mapquest all wanted to route us across the 8\' 6\" covered bridge.We\'ve only had the RV 785 a month but so far it has met all expectations and then some. When approaching a speed limit change, the speed limit \"sign\" changes to yellow and the device bings to alert you to the upcoming change. The volume is more than adequate for a noisy motorhome interior. Brightness is great as well. I\'ve never used voice control with a GPS before but it is handy with the RV 785 because it sits so much further from the driver than it would in a car.We wanted to change a trip routing from NE Ohio to Florida, which normally would take us via I-77 and the mountains of West Virginia. We set up the trip, tapped Edit Route, and tapped the \"dot\" for Columbus, OH. The route changed to use I-71 to Cincinnati and then I-75 to Florida, which is how we wanted to go. Easy-peasey.Garmin does need to get their act together security-wise, though. The RV 785 is running on Android v6.0.1 which is past its end-of-life date and now unsupported. Not good. Since the RV 785 can be Internet-connected for updates and actually has a built-in browser, Garmin needs to get the RV 785 on a supported version of Android.I suspect the RV 785, because it is built on Android, is a precursor for Garmin coming out with a tablet version of their products.
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