Trip History

Browsing the history, deleting, registering a trip by hand, merging split trips and opening the map of each one.

The Trip History screen lists everything driven with the active car. With the adapter connected, trips are recorded automatically; without it, you can record by GPS or enter the trip by hand afterwards.

The trip in progress does not enter the list: it sits on the Trip in progress card, above the filters.

  1. Read a row of the list

    Each card carries the date, the start and end times, and four numbers: Distance, Duration, Average speed and Average consumption.

    The tags show where the record came from: GPS for trips recorded without an adapter and Manual for the ones you entered. With more than one car and the filter on All, the model tag appears as well.

    A tilde before the value means the consumption is estimated. A dash means there was not enough data to calculate it.

  2. Open a trip

    Tap the card to open the Trip Map, with the route drawn, the summary of distance, duration, average speed and consumption, the Moving time compared with the Idle time, and the start and end addresses.

    Edit lets you write a description for the trip and switch the Trip purpose between personal and work. The Dashcam block lists the videos recorded during the trip, and shows Unavailable when the file was deleted from the gallery.

    While the trip is still in progress, the screen shows the matching notice and the map is only drawn at the end.

  3. Play the trip back with the sensors

    When there are recorded readings, the Driving data button opens the playback: the chart of the readings along the route and the Sensor summary, with the minimum, average and maximum of each one.

    Tap Select sensors to choose what goes into the chart. The app warns when more than five are selected, because the chart becomes hard to read. On the free plan the selection is fixed to the three default sensors: speed, RPM and consumption.

    The default sensors are recorded at the end of every trip and are always available. The other readings stay for 48 hours, a period you can change in Calibrations, under Default sensors. After 7 days only the sensors already chosen for the chart remain available, and the app says Expired sensor when you try to add another.

  4. Delete a trip

    Swipe the card to the left. Deletion is triggered as soon as the swipe passes the threshold, with no second tap needed.

    The app asks for confirmation before deleting. Once confirmed, the action cannot be undone.

  5. Record a trip without an adapter

    Open the floating button and tap Start trip. The app starts recording by GPS, and the floating button itself turns into a red End trip button, so you can finish with a single tap.

    The option is unavailable with the adapter connected, because recording is already automatic in that case.

  6. Enter a trip that already happened

    On the floating button, choose Register trip manually. The form asks for purpose, vehicle, origin, start date and time, starting odometer, destination, end date and time, ending odometer and an optional description.

    Origin and destination have a map button beside them, so you can drop the point instead of typing the address. The distance is calculated as the two odometer values are filled in.

    The ending odometer has to be greater than the starting one, and the end date has to be later than the start. The app points at the field that is wrong and takes the cursor to it.

  7. Merge trips that were split

    One trip can be recorded as two, because of a long stop or because the app concluded the journey had ended. On the floating button, tap Merge trips.

    The first time, the How to merge trips screen explains the procedure: tap the trips you want to join and then the save button. The selected trips get a blue border.

    Two rules apply: the trips have to belong to the same vehicle, and the gap between the end of one and the start of the next cannot exceed 2 hours.

    After the confirmation, the original trips are replaced by a single one, with the distances and the fuel added up. The action cannot be undone.

  8. Filter and sort

    The icon in the top right corner opens Sort Trips, with the newest, oldest, longest distance and longest duration options.

    Below the header sit the per-vehicle filter, present only with more than one car registered, and the month picker.

  9. Save favorite places

    On the floating button, Favorite places opens the list of the places you marked. In New favorite place, enter the Description, such as Home or Work, type the Address to search, tap the map to adjust the point and set the Radius.

    When a trip starts or ends within the radius of a favorite place and you wrote no description, the app describes the trip automatically with the names of the places. A description you typed always wins.


If something goes wrong

Splits usually happen on long stops, service queues or slow traffic lights. Use Merge trips, on the floating button, to join them again, keeping the two rules in mind: same vehicle and a maximum gap of 2 hours between them.

The background location permission is missing. In the phone settings, change the Car 2 Home location to the option that grants access all the time.

On Android, also turn on Disable battery optimization, on the Connection screen: some manufacturers end background work even with the permission granted.

With the adapter connected, recording is automatic and the manual option does not apply. The Automatic trip active notice appears when the adapter connects between your opening the floating button and your tap.

The app says why. The trips belong to different vehicles, in which case merging is not possible, or the gap between the end of one and the start of the other exceeds 2 hours. The limit exists so that an accidental tap does not join trips from different months.

If the screen shows a permission notice with the Fix button, location was denied and there was no route to record. Tap the button to open the app settings.

If the trip is still in progress, the map is only drawn once it ends.

The trip screen has no export of its own. Trips leave through the general export of the app, in Settings, Backup and export, where Trips is one of the selectable areas and produces a CSV with route, sensors, events and scores.

It depends on Favorite places being saved: the trip has to start or end within the radius of one of them. Check the radius of the place, and remember that a description you typed replaces the automatic one.

After 7 days only the sensors already chosen for the chart remain available. The other readings are kept for 48 hours after the trip, a period you can change in Calibrations, under Default sensors, where you can also include other sensors in the permanent recording.


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