I've only had the car a couple of days, but I swear that this seems to be the standard symbol for when I'm approaching a roundabout.

 

I'm using Waze for my maps, not the built in satnav. 

 

Other directions, such as left and right turns are well directed, but the roundabout symbol seems to be telling me to do a complete 180 even if the satnav is actually telling me to take the first, second, third turn, etc.

 

 

Unless there is a diversion in place, that sounds like it might be an issue with Waze. Do you have OEM GPS as well - what does that show for the same roundabouts? 

I didn't think Waze (or other IOS/Android nav apps)  output to the screen shown, was under the impression that was the built in **** nav only

It looks like an alien to me ,i know thats no help sorry but i believe waze has introduced some alien symbols into there software .

3 hours ago, Winston_Woof said:

I didn't think Waze (or other IOS/Android nav apps)  output to the screen shown, was under the impression that was the built in **** nav only

 

If that is the case, the display could be the in car satnav simultaneously giving instructions to an earlier entry on it's system?

Good point about the built in satnav. I only picked the car up on Saturday and I've used Waze for every trip.

 

From limited experience, what it seems to do on that display between the dials is to take whatever the next manoeuvre is that the satnav is saying, and mirror it directly in front of the driver. So, for example, if Waze is telling me I've got a left-hand turn coming up in 15 miles on the big infotainment screen, it will also have a left signal with 15 miles mirrored in front of me.

 

That weird 180° roundabout symbol just appears whenever Waze is telling me there's any sort of roundabout coming up. 

 

Actually! The penny has just dropped! I've just realised that the symbol which Waze displays on the phone and main infotainment screen for a roundabout is a swirling circular pattern with a number inside the circle. The number represents which exit you need to take, off the roundabout. So, obviously, Waze is sending it's instruction to the car computer and the car is interpreting the swirl with a number in it as a full trip round the roundabout (or something) every time, regardless of the number in the middle.

 

The solution to this would be to see if I can change an option in Waze to display roundabouts in a different manner.

 

I'll have a look when I'm back in the car, tomorrow, but I think I'm on the right track that it's simply an interpretation error between the two different softwares. Thanks for the comments.

I've found an example pic on a random webpage of how Waze displays a roundabout. See the swirl with the number "1" inside it? I reckon it's the swirl which is not being interpreted by the Skoda dash correctly. They obviously didn't program the Skoda software to recognise a 3rd party symbol. Maybe a system update will help me. I know I've got one pending.

 

 

Edited 6 May, 20242 yr by JFrankMiller

I tried a factory reset and restart login as primary user tonight, in order to try and complete the OCU update (whatever OCU is).

 

It's still doing nothing and I'm certain it had a downloaded update from two days ago which it hadn't applied yet.

 

Kind of annoying on such and otherwise lovely car. 

In this instance OCU is the acronym for an Online Connectivity Unit.

 

It's purpose is described here

 

 https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/BEJTLVHE4IU-E/4434703.pdf

 

and an example is shown here

 

Over-The-Air (OTA) software updates are described on this Skoda webpage

 

https://www.skoda.co.uk/owners/software-update

 

but (based on my own experience) for a new owner the current Fabia's OTA updating system is decidedly unfriendly.

 

I'm an old (80 next month)  long-retired old-school computer programmer/systems analyst and, although I'm comfortable enough with the mechanical side of my Fabia and how it drives, I could  happily dispense with most of the tech. Skoda's advert says "Like your computer or smartphone, your vehicle has embedded software fully integrated into the vehicle", but I'm an Apple iMac/iPad/iPhone aficionado nowadays (I've never forgiven Microsoft for Windows) and  Skoda's fully integrated embedded software seems to have been deliberately designed by a North Korean technician employed to drive car owners in non-Communist countries to distraction.

Edited 8 May, 20242 yr by DerekU

Haha. I work in a similar field. My work involves python programming and maintaining web services. I agree that there's much room for improvement in the way that current Skoda's attempt to integrate into the driver's digital life!

 

Yesterday I decided to factory reset the head unit so that it might have a better chance of completing the OCU update it told me was finished downloading about a day earlier.

 

I tried to login using my Skoda Connect email and password and it just wouldn't do anything. No error message. Nothing apart from the email/password boxes emptying themselves when I tapped login.

 

After four or five goes I decided to look at the MySkoda app on my phone and noticed that I'd been logged out of the app. It definitely hadn't done that before over the last three days and I'm three days into the one month free trial of the MySkoda remote service.

 

So I logged myself back into the app and then tried logging in via the dashboard again and this time it worked.

 

There was no message that I'd been locked out until I logged into the app. It was down to chance/guesswork that I discovered how to login again.

 

I'm trying not to let it taint the experience of what is a brilliant car to own and use, but it's quite clunky and frustrating at times.