Speed Camera Icon Permanently Showing on Banner

cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

I've just run a couple of simulated local journeys on my new Driveluxe 50 LMT-D and I'm puzzled as to why a white-on-grey speed camera icon has stayed permanently on the right-hand side of the banner at the top of the map. The only thing that has changed is originally when I pressed the icon, it pointed to a camera 0.6 miles away, but it's now showing the following information:-

MOBILE CAMERA
Alert Information
Distance: 0.4mi
Speed: 70.0pmh

Category
Custom POIs: Overspeed

Can anyone explain what is going on here please?

sussamb · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 5:18 pm Post subject:

Well you pressed the icon so it's giving you the details. That's what hapoens if you tap any icon top right. It should disappear, if it doesn't exit map view then come back to it.
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cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

It's not disappearing, even if I exit map view and then go back in.

cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

I've turned the unit completely off and then back on - that's got rid of it. I wonder why it wouldn't go away before?

sussamb · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 5:58 pm Post subject:

Not sure. I've just tried it and it went away when I hit the return arrow.
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walkerx · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 6:21 pm Post subject:

@cottonsocks

I have this with a single camera on a regular basis, it will say 0.7 mile away but is infact 13 mile away. it even lets you navigate to it

I think it is more of a bug with the garmin software, next time i get it i'll try to grab a screenshot of it.

cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

Well this gets even more intriguing - I've just reloaded the cameras to test whether the CSV to GPX converter is actually remembering the custom banners without going into that part of the program and this time, the sat nav showed a banner "Find Parking" instead of the speed camera banner. I've removed the camera database again and re-run the simulation, which has now cleared the bizarre message. Oh and yes, I had the option to navigate to a camera 0.6 miles away earlier and when I tested it via a simulation, the sat nav directed me up the M5 to the next junction, then back down the other carriageway to where the mobile camera icon was showing, a distance of about 10 miles. Very weird.

sussamb · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:14 pm Post subject:

Well none of that is really weird.

Your nuvi will suggest 'Find parking' once it thinks you're getting close to a destination, tapping the P icon top right will bring up a list of parking places close by. It's really quite useful.

As for navigating, I suspect the speed camera was on the opposite side of the carriageway, so to get to it you have to go up the M way to a junction then back down again
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pcaouolte · Posted: Sun Mar 26, 2017 7:28 pm Post subject:

I have found that the banners can get stuck when operating the Drivesmart in simulation mode.

If you stop the simulation whilst a camera is displayed in the banner that message gets stuck until you simulate driving past the same camera again.
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cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

Oh I see. I don't remember seeing it the first time I did a similar test, I'll try a longer route and see what happens, but I've got another problem now, I decided to delete all the files in the working directory, just in case, and now, after the CSV to GPX converter program has runs, it is reporting about half a dozen GPX files without corresponding picture or sound files. I'd upload an image but I can't see an option to do that. Perhaps I downloaded the wrong database (with voices only - no chimes)?

I think I should add that when downloading the database and unzipping everything to the CSV converter, all the three columns turned green - it was only after processing that the sound and picture columns turned pink.

cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

Just found the answer to the missing files problem. I had deleted some important files from the working directory. I must be getting tired.

Kremmen · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 5:57 am Post subject:

Once you have downloaded/copied your favourite BMP and WAV files to your CSV Converter working folder you don't touch them, unless you want to change them.

Within the CSV Converter is an option, used when you update the weekly cameras, to only extract the cameras so the WAV and BMP stay as your original favourites.
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cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

Kremmen · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:57 pm Post subject:

Doesn't it indeed - I'll have a look at that.

There are so many behind the scenes settings saved it's easy to miss one.

The other point about the text change, yes, you need to process the files each time.

What I'll look at is an option to auto process any text changes it finds. Just a simple on or off to be run at main process end.
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cottonsocks · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 29, 2010 Posts: 189

Sounds good to me. Thank you.

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