Creating spoken camera alerts on the Go1000/5 and VIA models

Andy_P · Last edited by Andy_P on Tue May 31, 2011 12:41 am; edited 4 times in total

(copied from another topic)

etsltd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 28, 2011 Posts: 5

I can't seem to get it to work. I have copied the note pad file over Rename.Bat. to the folder with the unzipped downloaded files in, but I'm unsure about the batch file.

mikealder · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:07 pm Post subject:

The file needs to be:

Rename.bat

NOT

Rename.bat. (Note the . at the end - its not needed)

NOT

Rename.bat.txt

Double check the file extension you have for the file - Mike

Andy_P · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:15 pm Post subject:

Copy the text in green in my post above.
Create a new empty text file with Notepad.
Paste the the text into it.
Save it.
Rename it to 'anything you like .bat'
Move or copy it into the same folder as all your unzipped camera data files.
Double click on it

The files should all change names.

I just did it all from scratch again using the steps above and it worked for me.

Oldboy · Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2011 9:44 pm Post subject:

You also need to make sure that Windows is not set to Hide extensions for known File Types.

The File might be called Rename.bat.txt Shocked

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etsltd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 28, 2011 Posts: 5

Sorted it changes that quick you do not notice. Do I now have to replace these files with the ones on mty TomTom.

Darren · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:30 am Post subject:

etsltd · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 28, 2011 Posts: 5

Thanks for your help.

bobmorris · Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 5:09 pm Post subject:

I have purchased the new 1005 and transferred all the cameras from my tomtom 300 by means of the Tom Tom assistant. It does allow for the selection of the cameras and also selects the ogg warnings too, the only one as I can see at the moment NOT working is the Redlight Camera warning. The assistant can be downloaded from TOM TOM web.

Andy_P · Posted: Sun May 29, 2011 12:32 am Post subject:

Thanks Bob....
There have been other topics announcing the changes that 1. allow you to install .ogg voice warnings now, and 2.using the "content Transfer Assistant" utility to help automate the process of installing them from an older model.

But we forgot to update this topic. Confused

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Brickie64 · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 3:33 pm Post subject:

If I may jump in in lieu of "bob"?

There are two ways to load sound files.
On the old models where you did it manually, you either put them into the map folder - the same place as you put the .ov2 and .bmp camera files.... or you put them in the "sounds" folder.
(This is all explained in more detail at the bottom of this instruction page from pre-MyTomTom days).

The equivalent to this in the MyTomTom method is to:
1. add them in the "Add POIs" section or
2. add them in the "Add warning sounds" section.

If you do #1 then they will be selected automatically when you do the warnings setup.
If you do #2 then you select the warning from the normal sound effect selection screen.
It all works just the same as it always did on the old models.

The fact the names are truncated on that sound effects screen is a pain, but if you choose to do it this way there is no reason you cannot change the names of the sound files before you upload them.

This is exactly what I did long ago. My sound files are called "Fixed_30" "Mobile_40" etc. which are easy to see on screen (and you only have to do it once).

There are plenty of free "bulk file re-namers" on the web which will rename them all in a trice if you'd rather not do it manually.
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Brickie64 · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:15 pm Post subject:

Ok Andy,
That seems to make sense. I'd always added the voice files into the map directory on my GO720 and it automatically selected them (until it missed one then crashed !).
I didn't think you could download them with the POI files so I'll give it a go.
I take it the X2 double size icons are not used on the Live 1005 from what's been posted here previously or have TT fixed that now?
I feel a bit lost with the ne MyTomTom program, I know the old program was a bit crappy at times but it seemed to give you a bit better idea what was going on when it was updating for you etc....

Thanks for the pointers
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Brickie64 · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 6:41 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know if you can get screen dumps on the Live 1005 like you can on the older TT units. Guess this won't be possible yet Rolling Eyes

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Andy_P · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:42 pm Post subject:

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