I’ve used the legacy Humminbird FishSmart app for a few years and loved it. I used it to mark all my favorite spots and could add notes to each location. It wasn’t flawless, but it worked. I no longer needed to keep handwritten note for my waypoints, everything could be kept in the app. Then Humminbird announced FishSmart would no longer be supported or updated, so I purchased the One-Boat Network app, which is the replacement for the old FishSmart app. The new app seems ok, but there is no, currently working, way to transfer my waypoints from FishSmart to One-Boat on my iPhone. If transferring doesn’t work, I would be forced to manually enter my hundreds of waypoints and notes into the new app. Humminbird’s customer service acknowledges the issue and says the issue has been escalated to their lead and engineering, but they have no timeline for a fix. I’ve been waiting for a fix since early March and it’s currently mid-May. I’m very disappointed, to say the least.

It has it’s pros and cons. Because I’m a grumpy old man, let’s start with the cons. It has some bugs. It won’t find the firmware version of my mega live and is forever hounding me to upgrade even though it’s running the latest. That is just a nuisance. More aggravating is the fact that if you use the chart in the app to map out where you want to fish, you can’t transfer those waypoints to your graphs. I’m not going to use my dinky phone to navigate on the water when I have a 12’ Helix in the dash. Seems to completely defeat the purpose of the charts on the phone.Now for the pros. Software upgrades are quick and easy with the new app. You still need an sd card but it’s still quicker and hassle free.I really like my One Boat network and the app seems like a worthy addition. Fix the inevitable bugs and make the waypoints work the way they did in the previous app and you will take a big step in the right direction of what a fully integrated app can do.

I’m not an IT professional, but I have no problem with most home or work tech, so I consider this just a poor app. Chartview is unreliable and not working at all just now — spinning wheel — maybe that’s because my Xplore unit is currently on my ice shuttle. But in the new boat of my dreams, the “Network” doesn’t work as a proper network of Xplore units in any way that I consider adequate or worth the considerable investment made in state-of-the-art Humminbird electronics. What is the point of an Ethernet hub if the networked units are not truly integrated, sharing stored data easily and not just live transducer readings? And yes, maybe I should re-read all the lousy pdfs start-to-finish or watch tons of extra videos (unlike other tech that just seems to work). Or maybe I should just eBay everything and start over with another brand. The hardware is great, but this app is trash.

There are many things to like about the app but a lot of issues that should be addressed to make it more useful. Fist is the lack of premium maps in some states. I’m in Weet Michigan and have 2 premium lakes within an hour. 90-95% of the lakes just have the standard contours. It’s pretty bad. Second is the lack of integration with the company’s fish finders. I have two Helix 7’s connected to the fish finder and for what? I don’t know, they’ve never talked with one another to share any information. The last 2 updates on my Helix updates to 2.8 I did both required me to put first buy a 16gb card, put it in, encrypt it, run in the house and download the file, drag it to the card, bring it to the boat, hope the finder recognizes it, then do the update. Is the next one actually supposed to be able to be done with Bluetooth? I hope so. The notice doing the update was vague. Also how about allowing the user to take some form of control the Helix graphs? We all know the interface on the graphs is awful. I have maybe half of my views hidden and the other half visible but I still am always pressing the dang view or exit button to toggle between imaging views. It’s horrible. Add a feature to the “one-boat network” that actually allows me to network with these graphs and quickly select a view vs getting down on my knees on the casting deck of the boat to beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep…….beep, beep, beep through the screens. It’s in the name. “One-Boat Network”. All the app to create a meaningful network with the graphs and quickly access features, views and settings vs putting the phone down to do the work on the graph.