News: Time to update your Buster Q – Spring update 2025

21.4.2025

Time to update your Buster Q – Spring update 2025

Buster Q display and Buster mobile app

While your Buster may have been resting over the winter, we’ve been hard at work crafting new ways to make your Buster Q infotainment system smarter, smoother, and more enjoyable to use.

This season’s Buster Q release is packed with updates designed to make your time on the water easier, safer, and just a little more satisfying. Whether it’s the newly redesigned dashboard, a smoother chart view with new overlay gauges, or the much-requested support for more integrations and languages, we’ve listened – and delivered.

And if you’re setting up a new boat? The improved onboarding experience will have you ready to go in no time, with guided steps and instant app linking to get you connected from the start.

New Buster Q dashboard 2025 update
New Buster Q Dashboard
  • New look and feel
    The redesigned dashboard offers a modern, fresh interface that enhances your boating experience.
  • Customizable bottom and middle widgets
    The dashboard widget panels can now be tailored to display the most relevant data for you, both in the middle section and in the bottom panel.
Enhanced Buster Q chart application
New Buster Q chart overlay design
  • New chart overlay design
    The updated chart application improves navigation by integrating essential engine data directly into the chart view. Users can easily monitor key metrics while staying focused on their route.
  • Overlay gauges and customizable widgets
    Keep essential engine and navigation data visible on top of the chart, and customize widgets to show exactly what matters to you.
  • Easily switch to full chart
    Tap the map at any time to hide overlay gauges and switch to a full-screen chart view. Easily toggle between views to stay focused on route planning and navigation.
Maritime limitations areas display for Norway
Map overlay: limitation areas for Norway
  • Limitation areas for Norway
    The subscription-based limitation area feature now includes also the Norwegian speed and access restrictions directly on the chart. Available for Finland too! 
New Buster Q audio settings
New Buster Q audio settings panel

Other improvements 

  • Switch chart orientation
    Switch between head-up and north-up modes.
  • New minicompass
    Red triangle: North

    Letter in the middle: Your current heading
  • New scale bars for Windy
    A new wind scale bar has been added, along with fine-tuned display settings for improved readability in different conditions.
  • Music & media updates
    You can now disable the internal amplifier and control volume boost. The music app also fully supports 16” displays in picture-in-picture mode, and internet radio scanning has been optimized for better station detection.
New Buster Q Fishinder
New Fishfinder options for Buster Q

Airmar all-in-one CHIRP fishfinder

Simply plug them into the display, and they’ll deliver crisp bottom details and clear fish target images. Available in both transom and thru-hull mounting options.

  • Medium CHIRP frequencies: 95-155 kHz

  • Depth range: 0.5 – 200 meters or 0.5 – 457 meters (1 kW)

  • Features: Depth, water temperature, bottom tracking, fish detection, “auto” mode for sensitivity, range, and noise cancellation, zoom, and split screen.
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