BikeOtter on a Wahoo ELEMNT

Send routes straight to the ELEMNT over Bluetooth

Routes go straight from your phone to the unit over Bluetooth — no Wi-Fi, no cloud step in between. Live progress fills the Send button, and the unit starts navigating the moment it lands.

• Your stops ride along: water, food, café and viewpoint markers arrive with the route and show on the ELEMNT.
• Big routes get a faster connection for the transfer, and a mid-transfer stall recovers on its own.
• The Routes list pins what the unit is carrying with an On ELEMNT badge — earned by a completed push or the unit's own report, never by merely opening a route.

Plan and edit routes on the phone

Build a route on the phone: tap waypoints on the map, pick trekking, fast bike or shortest, preview distance and ascent, save. Import GPX and FIT files, courses already on the unit, or turn any past ride back into a route.

• Scrubbable, grade-shaded elevation profile with a synced map cursor.
• Reroute around real places: search OSM POIs near any point of the route, then splice the pick in as a via-point or a detour-and-rejoin — the delta measured against the remaining route, no GPS fix required.
• Wind arrows along the path once a forecast is loaded.

Get rides off the ELEMNT, onto your phone, into Strava

Every completed ride still on the head unit, listed next to the ones already on your phone — one date-ordered list, not a sync screen — pulled over Bluetooth with per-ride progress and retry. Opt in, and they upload themselves to Strava, oldest first, surviving rate limits, dead spots and app restarts.

Weather, rules and reminders on the ELEMNT screen

BikeOtter projects the forecast along your route by arrival time — the weather where and when you'll actually be there — and pushes alerts to the device ahead of you: rain onset, building headwind, temperature drops, gusts. Your own rules ride the same channel: hydration on an interval (suppressed on steep descents), fuelling, heart-rate warnings, and a sunscreen reminder that models UV, skin type and time in the sun.

Live tracking, straight from your phone

Flip one switch and friends watch your dot at bikeotter.app/r/… — no app, no login on their side. The link carries your planned route, shows PAUSED instead of a lying LIVE badge when you stop, expires on its own, and when sharing breaks mid-ride, the ELEMNT itself tells you why: no connection, sign-in expired, or server error.

Sharing the unit with the Wahoo app

A Bluetooth peripheral takes one phone at a time, so the two can't both be connected at once. When you want the Wahoo app back, "Disconnect everything" — on the Devices screen and on the lock-screen notification — releases the unit, stops auto-reconnect, and stays out of the way until you return.