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  • Page 1 We hope you´ll enjoy using your ne w an a-rival Navigationsyste m. Just in case that you are facing any problem s with your Device, please call our support/service hotline 0049 (0)511 / 123 83 505 or send us an e-mail to support@a-rival.de 
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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents A Navigation Software User’s Guide ........................4 Main Menu .................................4 General Information............................4 GPS Reception ............................5 Navigation ................................7 Home ................................7 Office ................................7 Address ...............................7 2.3.1 City................................7 2.3.2 Special characters (‘umlauts’), spaces, hyphens, apostrophe ............8 2.3.3 Deleting entries ............................8 2.3.4 Street ..............................9 2.3.5 House number ..........................
  • Page 3 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Profiles ..............................34 GPS-Settings ............................35 Units ................................. 36 5.10 TMC – Traffic Message Channel ......................37 5.10.1 Receive TMC Data ......................... 37 5.10.2 Bypass traffic jams automatically ....................37 5.10.3 Ask before bypassing traffic jams....................38 5.10.4...

  • Page 4: A Navigation Software User's Guide

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide A Navigation Software User’s Guide When employing a navigation system in a vehicle, i.e., this software and the accompanying hardware, it is your responsibility to set up, secure and use the system in a manner that does not restrict your vision in any way and will not lead to accidents, injuries or material damages.

  • Page 5: Gps Reception

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide until you return to the main menu. On many screens a green button is displayed on the lower right-hand side. This GREEN button allows you to confirm entries or scroll through menus. 1.2 GPS Reception Your navigation system is equipped with a so-called GPS receiver which is used by the system to determine your current position.
  • Page 6 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide However, if the GPS receiver has been configured correctly the route calculation will automatically start as soon as reception is back to normal. During navigation the current GPS and TMC signal is indicated at the bottom left of the...

  • Page 7: Navigation

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2 Navigation There are several methods for specifying the destination: 2.1 Home If you click Home, you will be guided to your home address. See Chapter 5.2 for detailed information on how to set up your home address.

  • Page 8: Special Characters ('Umlauts'), Spaces, Hyphens, Apostrophe

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.3.2 Special characters (‘umlauts’), spaces, hyphens, apostrophe You do not need to enter ‘umlauts’. In place of an ‘Ä’ simply enter ‘A’, instead of ‘Ö’ enter ‘O’, instead of ‘Ü’ enter ‘U’. For example, if your destination is located in ‘Köln,’...

  • Page 9: Street

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.3.4 Street Start by entering the first two letters of the street you are trying to locate. The bottom line displays the city where the street is being searched. Alternatively, you can select DOWNTOWN if you want to drive to the center of the respective city.

  • Page 10: House Number

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide In this case, choose the desired destination based on the zip code or the district indicated in the list. 2.3.5 House number Next you are requested to enter the house number. Enter the house number and confirm by pressing the GREEN button. If you do not know the house number, click the GREEN button without making an entry.

  • Page 11: Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Click Search Crossroad to find all streets intersecting the selected street (Roteichenweg in this example). When you select an entry from the list, the full address is displayed in the lower screen section. Press the GREEN button to confirm your selection and start navigation to the chosen intersection.

  • Page 12: Map

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.5 Map This mode allows you to select your destination directly from within the map. You can use the plus and minus Buttons to zoom in and out. Alternatively you can use the magnifying glass. If you draw a box around the target form the upper left to the lower right (blue), the map viewer zooms in the selected area.
  • Page 13 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Click the button with the four arrows (red circle) to activate the scroll mode. You can now move the map with your finger. Activate the selection tool (red circle) to select a destination by directly clicking into the map.

  • Page 14: Poi

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.6 POI POI is the abbreviation for “point of interest”. These points of interest are important sites such as gas stations, hotels or hospitals. The POIs are grouped into separate categories. After calling up the POI function, you must select the desired category.

  • Page 15: Poi In City

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.7 POI in City The POI in City function serves to find a POI located far from your present location. This function can be very useful, for example, when you are looking for a hospital in another city.
  • Page 16 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Next, enter the keyword, e.g. “Brandenburger” for finding the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. All matching results are shown in a list. Click the map icon (red circle) to display the location of the POI on the map. Pressing the GREEN button will start navigation to the...

  • Page 17: Itinerary

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.9 Itinerary The Itinerary function allows you to specify several destinations you want to travel to successively and to save them. Use the Create button to create new Itineraries and the Load button to load existing Itineraries.

  • Page 18: Coordinates

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide You can change the order of the stops using the up/down buttons (red circle). Click the GREEN button to start navigation to the first stop. Once you reach the first destination, navigation to the next stop will commence at the touch of a button.

  • Page 19: Zip Code

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.11 Zip Code The Zip Code function enables you to define your destination by entering a zip code. This is what the screen looks like after entering “5137”. After selecting the first entry, you can search for a street within the zip code area or define the center of the zip code area as your destination.
  • Page 20 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Destinations you selected via the map (cf. Chapter 2.5) are indicated in the form of coordinates. For example, when you select the name of a city from the list, a new screen will show the street names previously entered for this city. If you select any of these streets, the house number last used for this street is displayed.

  • Page 21: Start Navigation

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.13 Start Navigation After you have selected a destination, you can specify the driving mode that is to apply for the route (cf. Chapter 5.7). If you don’t want this query to appear each time navigation is started, deselect the check mark in the Ask before every route calculation field (red circle).

  • Page 22: Alternative Routes

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 2.14 Alternative Routes After the initial route calculation a similar screen to the one below will appear. The calculated route can be accepted by pressing the blue OK button. Alternetively you can press the “Alternative” button to calculate other routes.

  • Page 23: Route Planning

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 3 Route Planning Use the Route Planning function to plan future trips. This allows you to obtain information on the distance and expected duration ahead of time. The Route Planning function works much the same as entering a normal destination;...
  • Page 24 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide After you have selected start location and destination, you can specify the driving mode that is to apply for this trip (cf. Chapter 5.7). If you don’t want this query to appear each time route calculation and navigation are launched, deselect the checkmark in the Ask before every route calculation field.

  • Page 25: Position

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 4 Position The Position function is used to display your current position on the map. The orientation of the map can be northward or in driving direction. Please see chapter 5.4 for more on these options.

  • Page 26: Options

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5 Options 5.1 Truckrouting In this dialog the dimensions of a truck can be entered. Also hazardous materials can be selected (however, truck types may be selected in the US version only). Based on the selected profile the navigation software calculates a route which avoids dimensional restrictions and other restrictions regarding vehicle type.

  • Page 27: Destination In A Restricted Area

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide It is advisable to choose „Truck“ from the „Profiles“ menue (see chapter 5.7) as the software will then calculate routes which are optimized for large truck usage (e.g. the route will avoid small roads and stay on main roads as long as possible). Large and heavy trucks will find these routes much easier to navigate then routes calculated with the „car“...
  • Page 28 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Tap the blue button (red circle) and then a position in the map to choose a new destination or tap the green button to choose an automatically determined location closest to the original destination. Tap into the Pop-Up to confirm the new destination.

  • Page 29: Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.2 Favorites 5.2.1 Adding favorites Favorites are frequently used addresses you can store in a list. This facilitates quick access to these destinations. When you start up the system for the first time, the favorites list is empty.

  • Page 30: Deleting Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide After selecting an address (e.g. by entering the address, see Chapter 2.2), you will be prompted to provide a name for this favorite. Confirm your entry with the GREEN button. You can also define this address as your HOME or OFFICE address by clicking the blue house icon.

  • Page 31: Renaming Favorites

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.2.3 Renaming favorites If you want to rename a favorite, mark the entry in the list and click the renaming icon (red circle). 5.3 Volume The volume menu allows you to adjust the system volume. If you want to change the system volume during navigation, please refer to Chapter 6.4.

  • Page 32: Map Display

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.4 Map display The (Map display) menu offers several map display options. Northward: The map is ‘northed’, i.e., north always points up.  Driving Direction: The map is always displayed in the direction of travel. In ...

  • Page 33: Poi-Display

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.5 POI-Display In the POI Display menu you can define the POI categories to be displayed on the map. 5.6 Route Settings The Route Settings menu allows you to specify whether to calculate the shortest or fastest route.

  • Page 34: Profiles

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.7 Profiles The Profiles menu offers options for optimizing the route calculation for a specific vehicle type and/or driving mode. The profile “car fast” shall be used for passenger cars in general. The option “car slow”...

  • Page 35: Gps-Settings

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.8 GPS-Settings In the menue „GPS Settings“ the appropriate settings must be made to allow the navigation software to read GPS data from the receiver. After the first installation of the software, this screen should be displayed.

  • Page 36: Units

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide Display Interpretation Status: Connection OK The navigation software has established a connection with the GPS receiver and is receiving data. Count: 9 The navigation software receives one dataset per second. Since the connection was established 9 datasets have been received.

  • Page 37: Tmc - Traffic Message Channel

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.10 TMC – Traffic Message Channel TMC are traffic information which can be considered by your navigation software for route calculation and for map display. Prerequisite for using TMC is a TMC receiver (internal or external).

  • Page 38: Ask Before Bypassing Traffic Jams

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.10.3 Ask before bypassing traffic jams Activate „Ask before bypassing traffic jams “ to get an message box when an traffic jam is arise. 5.10.4 Display traffic events only With this option the traffic jams will be shown only on the map viewer.

  • Page 39: Traffic

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.11 Traffic The „Traffic“ menue displays a list of the received traffic conditions. Tap a list entry to display the full description below. To sort the list alphabetically tap the „A-Z“ button (red circle). Tap the button again to sort the list by distance from your current location.

  • Page 40: Speedwarnings

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 5.13 Speedwarnings The menu „Warning“ allows you to select, if you want to be alerted when exceeding the local speed limit. The settings allow for acoustic or visual alerts. The shown example gives an acoustic alert when exceeding the speed limit by 10km/h or more but but never displays a visual warning.

  • Page 41: Blockades

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide To show a GPS track on a map, click the green button and select a track. The track will be shown on the map with a line of green dots. Please open a mapviewer manually to do so.

  • Page 42: While On The Road

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6 While on the Road 6.1 Travel Information The black bar below the map provides you with miscellaneous information about the trip: The orange action icon indicates the next driving maneuver.  The box with the three arrows in the left upper corner of the map viewer show ...

  • Page 43: Zoom

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.2 Zoom During navigation you can use the plus/minus buttons (red circles) to enlarge or reduce the displayed map section. After 10 seconds the map will automatically revert to the optimal display setting. This Auto zoom function can be disabled (cf. Chapter 5.4).

  • Page 44: Driving Instruction Volume

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.4 Driving Instruction Volume Click the left bar at any time to adjust the volume of the driving instructions. After a few seconds the volume display automatically disappears.

  • Page 45: Options

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.5 Options Click the map during navigation to display the option dialog. 6.5.1 Mute Use the Mute button to disable the acoustic driving instructions. Pressing the button again will enable the spoken instructions. 6.5.2 Map View The Map View button calls up a menu for performing map display settings (cf.

  • Page 46: Interstations

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.5.4 Interstations The Interstation function allows you to add intermediate destinations while en route to your destination. For more detailed information on how to select the interstation, please refer to Chapter 2. 6.5.5 Block KM The purpose of the Block KM function is to block the upcoming road section for a certain number of kilometers during active navigation.

  • Page 47: Tmc

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide 6.5.7 Please see chapter 5.10. 6.5.8 GPS-Logs Please see chapter 5.15. 6.5.9 Speedwarnings Please see chapter 5.13. 6.5.10 Blockades Please see chapter 5.15. 6.5.11 Quit Press the Quit button to end navigation. The navigation software returnes to the main...

  • Page 48: B Faqs Regarding Truck Navigation

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide B FAQs regarding Truck Navigation Are truck restrictions captured for all the roads ? Unfortunately truck restrictions captured have not been captured yet for each and every road. The density truck restrictions have been added to the map data is depending on the country. But there is no country with a complete coverage when it comes to truck restrictions.
  • Page 49 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide When hitting the green button a map will be shown. When hitting the green button you will be guided to the nearest adjacent road in the proximity of the original destination which is permitted to use with the current truck settings. When picking the blue button you may interactively choose another destination from the map (cf.

  • Page 50: C Copyright Notice

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide C Copyright Notice The product and the information contained in this document are subject to change without prior notification. This manual or any parts thereof may not be modified or duplicated without the express written permission of infoware GmbH.

  • Page 51: D End User License Agreement ("Eula")

    A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide D End-User License Agreement („EULA“) This End-User License Agreement (“EULA”) is a legal agreement between you (either an individual natural person or a single legal entity) the “End User”, and infoware Gesellschaft für Informationstechnik mbH, Riemenschneiderstrasse 11, 53175 Bonn, Germany) (“infoware”). This EULA applies to software, pre- installed software on any hardware devices as well as cd-rom, floppy disk, memory card, download package or any other data carriers and all contents and contents programs (“Software”).
  • Page 52 A-Rival 2.5 User’s Guide c) Some countries may not allow the exclusion or limitation of damages. If this Limited Warranty is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such invalidity or unenforceability shall not invalidate or render unenforceable the entire Limited Warranty, but rather the Limited Warranty shall be construed as if not containing the particular invalid or unenforceable provision or provisions, and the rights and obligations of each party shall be construed and enforced accordingly.

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