Tips

You can find nearby bus stops by selecting the Public Transit filter in the Places Nearby list.

You can set a beacon on any address. From the main screen, search for the address using the search bar. Then select the address in the search results to open the Location Details screen. This screen has an option to Start Audio Beacon on the address. This way, you can set a beacon on businesses, places, points of interest, and homes that are not in OpenStreetMap.

If you take a bus route regularly, save your pickup and exit stops as Markers. This saves them so you can find them again easily. Select Markers on the home screen to find them. You can set a beacon on them to get periodic updates on how close you are to your exit stop. Note: you can turn off the rhythmic sound and still get distance updates along the way.

If you put your phone in your pocket and stop moving, the beacon sound gets quieter because Soundscape cannot tell which way you are facing. To fix this, start walking again, or take your phone out and hold it flat.

Soundscape works best when you hold the phone flat with the screen facing the sky and the top of the phone pointing away from you.

You can turn the rhythmic sound of the beacon on and off using the mute button on the home screen. If the beacon is muted, you will still get updates about your distance to your destination approximately every 50 meters.

To keep using Soundscape without hearing automatic callouts, set Callout Detail to Silent in the Manage Callouts section of the Settings screen from the menu. If you are not going to use Soundscape for a while, you can put it in Sleep or Snooze mode instead using the Sleep button on the home screen.