Trips
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Trips
The BlueFire App can record your trips, save them, and email them to you in an Excel csv
formatted file. You can see a sample of this by starting and ending a demo trip.
When you first open the Trip page, if you have a current trip in progress that trip will be shown,
otherwise the new trip page will be shown. A list of all your trips is at the bottom of the page. You
can select any trip to see the information on that trip. Tap the 'New Trip' button to start a new
trip.
Starting a Trip
Before starting a trip you should enter the following information:
1. Trip Name - The name of your trip. This is also the file name for the Excel csv file. The
default is a date-time stamp. Once the trip is started, the name cannot be changed.
2. Notes - Any notes about your trip that you want to save. You can add and change these
later.
3. Options :
o Email when Trip is Ended - automatically emails your trip to yourself when you end
it.
o Delete Trip after Emailing - deletes the trip after successfully emailing it. You can
use this option if you're short on mobile device storage.
o Ignore GPS Location - ignores retrieving GPS locations for Start, Current, and End
locations. You can manually enter the Start and End locations yourself.
4. Starting Location - Your trip starting location. Unless you have the Ignore GPS Location
option turned on, this will pick up your current GPS location. Note, using GPS location will
record the GPS coordinates and allow you to map to those coordinates.
You can manually enter locations even if you have GPS locations turned on. As soon as you start
entering a manual location, the GPS location is turned off for that specific location. To turn it back
on, clear out the manual location. You can enter only the city and optionally the state. The city and
state can be entered in lower case and will be automatically formatted with a comma between the
city and state and a two letter state code changed to all caps.
You can start a trip anytime but it is advisable to wait until you have connected to the adapter and
retrieved the necessary information for your trip. Note that you don't need to have the engine
running to retrieve ECM data, just having the key on is sufficient. Warning alerts will be shown if
you don't have all the information for a trip.
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