Navionics.

[dansaskip]

I have just fired up my old iPad, which had a number of Navionics charts on, all fully downloaded. This was kept as a backup. However I find that the app will not now proceed to open without logging in. This is the case whether or not there is an internet connection. It would seem that Garmin in their stupidity have decided that you can only use the app if you have an internet connection and you log on. So Garmin has taken a perfectly good and useful app and ruined it .
Fair enough if you want to keep your charts updated but I paid for and downloaded the charts before the Garmin takeover and their imposition of the subscription model.
Searching the web elsewhere eg the cruisers forum reveals this To state what might be obvious, it is impossible to sign in to the Boating App without an internet connection.
Have any other users experienced this?

 

[wingcommander]

Replied in error.

 

[Refueler]

I can open my Tablets / Phone Boating App Navionics fine ... no need to be connected unless I want to update or download other charts.

If that's not true - how am I able to use the charts when out in middle of Baltic with no Internet connection ???

 

[lustyd]

When you log in you’ll get an authentication token which will be valid for a given time period. I imagine it’s something like 3 months for this app but have no knowledge of it specifically. Each time you are connected it will renew that token so you don’t have to keep logging in. There’s no requirement to be connected, but the terms Garmin/Navionics have to obey with their content suppliers will require that they authenticate their users. This is pretty standard stuff with modern IT systems.

 

[fredrussell]

Prompted by this thread I’ve just switched on my truly ancient ‘emergency’ Ipad with Navionics and whole of uk charts downloaded years ago. Works fine and no login required, as usual. However, I deliberately never put a SIM card in it and never connect it to Wi-Fi for this very reason.