Garmin will never admit to this, but dēzl came into existence, as I worked with Garmin engineers for the past good several weeks.
I wrote many emails and sent several diagnostic logs from the previous Drive App; and my OTR800 GPS.
I proved to support how the previous Drive App wasn’t working very well with Bluetooth; especially with PrePass.
Sometimes I would get notifications, other times I wouldn’t get anything at all. I even told them of the bad reviews the Drive App was getting for a long time.
I suggested to Garmin to do a complete rewrite of dēzl from scratch. Hopefully correcting the PrePass notification and Bluetooth connection issues.
So far, the new Dezl App was able to connect to my OTR800, and the PrePass feature seems to be updated! I have yet to test this out for notifications being sent to the GPS properly.
It’s impressive to see the Pilot and Love’s features added! I am able to see my Pilot information on the GPS screen!
*** But I took one star because even after logging into my Love’s account and giving it authorization, there’s no information! The GPS screen tells me to log into my Loves account on the Dezl App. I did that several different ways, but still tells me regardless to log in anyway. So that might need to get fixed.
I have already reset the Bluetooth connections and reinstalled the Dezl App several times, doesn’t fix the Love’s connection issue.
It might be a poor signal from the phone, so will give it a good day or two before having to send another support message to Garmin.
I will edit this as I know more.
Anyway, give dēzl a try if your past frustrated with the previous Garmin Drive App.