Varia‪™‬ 4+

I got this for Father’s Day but I downloaded the app a long time ago waiting for someone to get the hint. It works exactly as advertised. I can put it in my under seat pouch and still hear it easily and I can’t hear very well. Only a couple of things could be improved. One of them is the distance it picks up a car which is 153 yards. Sounds pretty far but when that car is coming 75 or 80 mph it’s just a few seconds before he is on top of you. Another 50 yards would be perfect. The other thing is when the alarm goes off there could be 3 or 4 cars coming with only one signal, which is fine but you better look at your monitor before you dart back in traffic lane. Anyway the fact is I love it. Wish I had one a year ago. I’m 75 years old and do all my riding on highways and my neck won’t turn enough to see behind me. I stare into my mirror constantly which makes my neck worse. Now I just check my mirror when the alert goes off.

My hearing is poor and trying to monitor oncoming traffic is hit or miss. I've found that the radar picks up vehicles before I would have seen them because you can't ride staring at your mirror. I use the Varia w the phone app and with Trekz bone conduction headphones.
With my poor hearing I might not pick up on the phone signal otherwise. The Trekz 'phones do not block my ear canal. Yes I sometimes listen to media while riding, but the audio ring overrides and there on my Wahoo head unit is a graphic showing the relative position(s) of oncoming vehicles. Seeing that there is more than one car approaching is huge.

I’ve only had it for one day- the 715. According to everything I can read I have it all set up normally- my Wahoo Bolt connects to it just fine, but doesn’t show the radar LEDs anywhere. The radar alerts are ‘on’ in the settings. Something to figure out.
Setting up this app, however, seems even worse. The connection to the thing’s wifi to view videos is horrible, even when the phone is touching the device. I couldn’t get anything to play, just loads until it crashes. Not convinced it actually recorded anything because I have 50 2-second videos from a 1 hr ride (and I can’t view any of them). Keeps making an alert noise on my phone when it’s disconnected or connected, which wouldn’t be annoying if it were going on/off incessantly. Fix your software.