Utterly useless, unless you only want viewing or a remote control
I had to try it to believe how bad it really was. It does work fine as a viewer, so the exact screen that’s on the mfd will be shown. But as mentioned in other reviews, you are unable to edit or control anything whatsoever because once you attempt to do so a “control screen” will pop-up that fills the full screen, with a mouse to control and click with the cursor, but it fills the entire screen so you can’t see what you are doing. So you could potentially also use it as a remote to control the cursor on the plotter while looking at the actual plotter rather than your phone screen. But it definitely does not turn your phone or tablet into sort of a secondary mfd, which I think is what most people are expecting from this app, and something that should be technically possible with the right control interface.
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Terrible app
As others have noted, it is ridiculous not to be able to view the screen while interacting with it. This could be a very useful app to mirror and remote control an Axiom MFD, but as is it is a complete fail. Raymarine, please fix and support this app. It seriously undermines your brand!
No Good
This App does not work with Axiom Pro 2. Only mirrors the screen on the MFD.
Takes Over iPhone !!
Unbelievably bad! Won’t connect with 2024 axiom with all software updates.Since it is unable to connect, it keeps asking to retry. You can’t even stop the app, Had to shut down and restart iPhone just to regain control of iPhone.
This app is one of the reasons I won’t purchase Raymarine equipment anymore
This app is a waste of time, it doesn’t work smoothly and it won’t connect through a Starlink router. Meaning that if my iPad is connected to the chart-plotter the iPad won’t have any internet connectivity. Please fix this problem Raymarine! Your lack of commitment to making this existing product line work is exactly why I won’t be purchasing the new product line!
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Works!
You must connect your display WiFi to your phone via WiFi sharing on the Raymarine device. Took a while to figure this out.
Unable to use
I am unable to use this Ray Remote app at all! I have successfully installed and connected to my Axiom 12 MFD, but the display on my iphone is not interactive at all!
And when I’m connected to the Axiom MFD via WiFi, it blocks cellular data and makes my phone unusable!
And when I’m connected to the Axiom MFD via WiFi, it blocks cellular data and makes my phone unusable!
Raymarine= qualité douteuse !! Mauvais visualisateur
Ne pas acheter de produits Raymarine est peut être le meilleur conseil que je peux donner. Leur qualité est de moins en moins bonne et les produits ne sont pas fiables. Mon voilier est 100% équipé des derniers produits de cette firme. En gros, traceurs qui ne supporte pas la pluie (même très faible), pilote automatique pas fiable (le P70s ou le EV1 ) pas très robuste.
Sans compter les logiciels d’emprise à distance des MFD.. totalement INUTILE … plus ils font des mises à jour, pire il est …
Sans compter les logiciels d’emprise à distance des MFD.. totalement INUTILE … plus ils font des mises à jour, pire il est …
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Why build something so bad
How the ergonomics if this app ever got through quality control is amazing. To be unable to see what you are doing with the control panel on the screen you were viewing is a design stuff-up of mega proportions. Did someone really get paid to build this?
Can see and control at the same time? Really?!
Did anyone actually test this? Totally worthless.
Also, why can we not connect over Wifi when all devices are on the same network? Connecting to the MFD’s Wifi has no network connectivity. On a connected yacht, it’d be nice to remain connected.
Also, why can we not connect over Wifi when all devices are on the same network? Connecting to the MFD’s Wifi has no network connectivity. On a connected yacht, it’d be nice to remain connected.
Useless and can’t get rid of it
Set up this app and my MFD to connect by WiFi, but the app continues to say it cannot find my MFD. Raymarine technician says I did everything correctly, so puzzled why it wasn’t hooking up. But as an earlier reviewer remarked, once the app cannot find the MFD, there is no way to get it to stop looking. The only choice is to REPEAT the search. I tried to stop it by shutting my iPhone down, but when I restarted the phone the app was still searching. Deleting the app from my homepage did nothing, and deleting it completely did nothing; it is still “in the cloud” and when it comes back it is still in search mode. Presumably this would prevent me from trying to hook up by Bluetooth, which one must do in order to use the app while sailing and away from your WiFi. After reading earlier reviews, it appears the app is useless anyway, since you cannot both see the chart and the controls simultaneously (I can’t vouch for this since I can’t get that far.) Save yourself the grief of trying to get it to work.
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Worthless
There is no way to close this app once it’s opened, you have to reboot your phone. Perhaps it has never been updated to work with a newer iPhone that doesn’t have a home button.
Does not seem to work
The app does not work with Axiom
Just gives RayView screen
Just gives RayView screen
Still the Worst
On an iPhone this is only good as a mirrored device. On an iPad it is better but drops the connection if you minimize the app to switch over to weather or something else. Just give us an update please!
Useless
Agree completely with the previous review. For example, I can view the screen and see AIS traffic, but I can’t pull up AIS info without leaving the flying bridge and using the MFD. It is clear that Raymarine’s main interest is to sell me another overpriced MFD.
Really?
If the app doesn’t find your mfd, it’s locked in a loop of “do you want to retry?”
There is no “no” option and no swiping up to force-quit the app. You have to do a hard restart of your phone. How did Raymarine or even apple let this get through?
There is no “no” option and no swiping up to force-quit the app. You have to do a hard restart of your phone. How did Raymarine or even apple let this get through?
Insulting
Having just parted with £1k+ for my mfd I find that the advertised remote app is utterly useless & unusable (see the other reviews) Clearly, cynically designed to push owners into buying another instrument when led to believe an existing tablet would fill the role. Shameful!
Junk
Raymarine chart plotters are great. Top of the line equipment, maybe the best there currently is. I have spent more on their equipment than some people spend on a car. I like their hardware.
And yet they supply with their superb chart plotters this wholly inadequate piece of junk app. It is unusable. It means people like me end up buying multiple Raymarine chart plotters to get the connectivity needed because this app will make you throw your iPad in the sea in frustration.
The app has not been updated (at the time of this review) for three years. That’s inexcusable. The sooner new tech startups get into gear (check out Orca for example) the sooner Raymarine will have to get off their lazy super-profitable backsides and develop usable tablet software.
Shameful Raymarine, shameful.
And yet they supply with their superb chart plotters this wholly inadequate piece of junk app. It is unusable. It means people like me end up buying multiple Raymarine chart plotters to get the connectivity needed because this app will make you throw your iPad in the sea in frustration.
The app has not been updated (at the time of this review) for three years. That’s inexcusable. The sooner new tech startups get into gear (check out Orca for example) the sooner Raymarine will have to get off their lazy super-profitable backsides and develop usable tablet software.
Shameful Raymarine, shameful.
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Horrible app
I mistakingly recently purchased several Raymarine products for my 36' sailboat, after using this app it's horrendous. Called the manufacture in January they said "a brand new working app would be released within weeks" Still no app update in 5 months. The worst marine navigation equipment manufacture bar none. Support is useless and they even lie. I will never purchase another raymarine product!
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Used to work great. Now horrible.
This used to be a decent app allowing some control and views remotely. Now view of map screen only with no remote control (that works anyway). Please fix/update Raymarine.
