How to Easily Update Your Garmin Echomap Network with the ActiveCaptain App!

We're back with another Garmin video, and this time I'll show you how to easily update your Garmin Echomap network with the ActiveCaptain app! Not only will this tutorial show you how to update every Echomap in your network with a few taps, but it will also update any additional Garmin equipment such as your Panoptix Livescope, your Garmin Force trolling motor and anything else Garmin!

I'll also answer the most common questions I get about how to update Echomaps on a network as well as talk about how my units are connected and how to connect your own Echomaps depending on if they are Echomap Ultra units or UHD and Plus units.

You will need a couple of important things to update your Garmin Echomap network:

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Have a question? Post it below in the comments and I'll reply ASAP! Please remember to pound that like button and subscribe to the channel and help it grow! All the very best and tight lines :)

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0:00 Introduction
0:50 What You Need
1:30 Running the Update
12:56 Networking Questions
15:22 Conclusion

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[bingostar]

Thanks for doing these videos! Really helps us mooks out!

[danbernskoetter]

Thanks for the info. I have done several updates over the last year or so but did not understand exactly what was happening. Thanks. Dan

[PapaDukesFl]

Great video, wish I had seen this a year ago, but I learned it through school of hard knocks. Thanks for creating this. I'm looking at getting a Garmin Force trolling motor this year, should be interesting.

[PamelaBrandonChromeFoto]

Dan, “the fish are calling you”, I sure hope you get time this Summer to fish and make some Awesome videos, we all miss you…I know work is always busy, but like I said “The Fish are calling you”. Hope you and your family are doing well and enjoying the warmer weather right now and your DO LIST is getting smaller, I know you have one for the Summer months. Take care Friend, hope to see some videos soon.

[Jman-bqov]

Great info and even better shirt! Thank you!

[kingachybraky]

We have a Force on a bass boat and a Kraken on a pontoon boat. We use use 126 graphs interchanged on both boats. Can I control both trolling motors with one graph or will I need to designate different graphs as the primary graph for the different trolling motors?

[blindhogadventures_Cory.F]

You mentioned the maps card. I just got another 73 ultra sv and now have one on the console and the bow so this helped a bunch and I will go home and update but my Coastal maps are on a card that was purchased (it is the lake version). You said not to remove that SD once you use it. Do I just put my map SD card that I have from Richmond to Charleston in the other unit? Help please.

[InspireToGo]

Gan the Garmin units be networked wirelessly or do you have to run a cable to be able to network the units.

[sheilaholt]

Just started watching your videos and was excited to see your posts about software to manipulate waypoints and tracks on my Garmin Echomap UHD. When I searched for the Homeport software, I see it is no longer available 😢. What do you use now to update waypoints and tracks??

[oldbru]

great video and helped a lot.
But i connected the network cable between my two 106 ultra units and noticed it getting quite warm to the touch is this normal. I got worried that i was going to fry something and disconnected it. the cable came with my new livescope unit i will be adding to my system. not sure what the problem is. is it possible the cable is faulty ?

[lesliewilson]

Thank you looking forward to the next video

[bgslade]

Love your Garmin videos. When are you coming back with more videos??

[johnzuleger]

Do you have any video on initial set up of GLS 10 with 106 Ultra? Can’t get GLS 10 to power up. Thanks

[MackZero]

Hi so I can do this over a stable cell service connection? My boats in the water and is never that close to a wifi network. Or could I download updates on my phone and then go down to boat? Thanks!

[darrylluton]

Do you have the same wifi network for the phone and chartplotter?

[chazt]

All of your Garmin product video's are simply awesome and greatly appreciated! After the units are registered with software updates...do you open simulator mode to set up/pre-set your custom screens for side scan, clear vu and traditional if your at home on battery power and not on the water? Thanks

[philtarbox]

Very cool using your phone to interface and update... definitely looked way easier that way

[sasin]

Yes sir I’m wondering if you always need an SD card or if you can do it without an SD card

[sincky]

Hi Dan are you done making videos? I am doing some of the same upgrades as you and the videos have really helped alot!

[lewispurcell]

Just completed an update. I have 2 93UHDs, a livescope, and a garmin network hub. Update went as you showed in the video except that the new version did not show an update on one of my 93UHDs in the phone ActiveCaptain app "My Devices" section. (You did not mention this phone app feature in your video.) I checked each 93UHD unit and both indicated an update...it is just that my phone app only shows one 93UHD updated. The other 93UHD still shows the old version is installed. Did I miss a step or is it just an app glitch and don't worry about it?