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Pattyluc · 07-09-2022, 12:24 PM

I would like to export my RV Tip Wizrd trip to my Garmin RV 780, need help.

scotttkd · 07-09-2022, 12:46 PM

Unfortunately RV Trip Wizard is not known to play well with Garmin. I plan trips on Trip Wizard and load the days drive into the Garmin manually each day while getting packed up. Not ideal, but the Garmin is a far better RV oriented GPS than others we have tried.

scotttkd · 07-09-2022, 12:47 PM

Btw, welcome to the forum!

MSHappyCampers · 07-09-2022, 12:50 PM

Hi ! Welcome to IRV2! We're sure glad you joined us!

Someone will be along to help!

Good luck, happy trails, and God bless!

timjet · 07-12-2022, 05:35 AM

This topic has been discussed many times, do a search and you will get far more info than from this post.

Briefly like Scott above said it's not easy but can be done. If you learn Garmin's PC mapping software, BaseCamp, you can load an RVTW trip into BaseCamp and by creating enough turnpoints can force your GPS to follow the trip you created in RVTW.

However that is more trouble than most people care to do. What can make it easier is to create your trip in RVTW and using BaseCamp load all your stops into your Garmin GPS. Then each travel day your stops are already saved in your GPS under "Saved" and you can scroll through the saved list and pick the stop you want to go to. Your GPS will navigate to the stop selected using the avoidances you set into your GPS.

bfisher003 · 07-12-2022, 05:42 AM

I have been using Trip Wizard for several months and yes, exporting trips to our Garmin RV890 GPS unit requires multiple steps and the result is not great. For example, I built a 1200 mile trip on TW, then went back in and plugged in diesel fuel stops at TAs and Loves along the route. I really like how TW does this part. However, to get the route from my Mac Air to the Garmin RV890 required me to first Export the .gpx file to the Mac, then store it in the cloud, then use the Garmin Drive app on my iPhone to send the file to the RV890. On the RV890 what was initially one trip was broken up into eight separate trips with the fuel stops! Not only that, but there were really weird extra routings. I pulled up each new separate route on the Garmin and deleted every step between the start and end and this cleaned each of the routes up. I then sequentially named each route in the order of travel. So, since each fuel stop ends a route, at every fuel stop I have to call up a new trip to the next fuel stop. This sucks! Am I doing something wrong or incorrectly?

JayAndKaren · 08-10-2022, 07:27 AM

I recently worked with Garmin developers on an issue sending POI and route planning from Basecamp on a MacBook Pro to my RV 890. Long story short - they were politely clear that it doesn't work and won't be fixed. The "approved" method was to use the trip planner in the device.

Despite conflicting info on the Internet, the development team made it clear that Basecamp is going away. They said that Garmin Explore (the website) would someday support road trip devices, but no timeframe was given.

RV Trip Wizard support for Garmin devices would be a great benefit to many users. If we all keep asking perhaps it will become reality.

As always, my 2 cents and nothing more.

timjet · 08-20-2022, 07:27 AM

I believe JayandKaren is correct in that Garmin will not likely ever support a 3rd party mapping program displaying on a Garmin GPS. I'm sadden to hear Garmin will stop supporting its BaseCamp software but not surprised. The few uses of BaseCamp and the rather steep learning curved has probably doomed it.