speed cameras garmin i3

athletenige · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 7

Hello,

I have just purchased an i3 and downloaded the speed camera data.(which it acknowledged as successful) after travelling over two hundred miles, it is apparent that it does not alert me when passing quite a lot of the fixed cameras.
What have I done wrong please?

thx!

MaFt · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject:

make sure you have proximity alerts turned on in the settings of the i3.

also, can you see the camera's in where to | food hotels & more | custom points ?

MaFt

athletenige · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 7

Thanks for the quick reply!

I have got the proximity alerts switched on, and their are about 25 files (relating to speed cameras) in the custom points!

Should the unit alert to every fixed camera?

2carkev · Posted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 3:25 pm Post subject:

Don't forget, it will only alert if you are going over the speed.

rjbsec · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 78

... and maybe the camera isn't registered on the database so think about recording its location and adding it to the database using the Speed Cameras link.

athletenige · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 7

Thanks for all the info!

I beleive that 2carkev was correct, I didn't realise that you had to be going over the actual speed limit before thei3 would alert you. I thought that you would recieve a warning of a camera up ahead even if you were going under the limit.

I will test this out soon.

MaFt · Posted: Tue Mar 14, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

athletenige - you should get an initial 'bong-bong' and red banner at the top as you approach the camera and then after that it will do extra bongs if you are over the limit but the red banner will stay there until you pass the camera.

MaFt

athletenige · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 7

MaFt,

I just drove at a static camera which is a 30mph but nothing happened, no "bong-bong" or red banner as I approached it.

So I still do not know what the problem is.

It does register with some cameras but probably only about 50% at best.

athletenige

PLUSTAR · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 3

There's something I seem to have noticed about my I3, the camera alerts i.e. the red banner with "xxmph alert ahead", not the over limit alert, appear only if your going above a certain speed.

For example, there is a relatively new SPECS camera system less than 20 miles away, and I acctually thought it was a 60mph one, so I was traveling at 60 and no alerts were being shown at all.

However looking at the DB the cameras are acctually set to 70 (confirmed online), and I presume that I would have been alerted had I been closer to 70.

I say this because earlier today, on my daily commute, less than 15 mins, during I pass 5 individual gatzo's, I noticed an alert for one of the cameras, I had to slow down because of traffic and the alert dissapeared before the camera, when I got back upto speed the alert re-appeard, I did not stop in the traffic, mearly slowed my speed, it's this behaviour that makes me think that the speed sensitve proximity alerts only alert if your going within 10mph* of the alert speed, i.e. 20mph+ for a 30 camera, 30+ for a 40 etc. (*10mph figure is a guess)

Can anyone else confirm this? I will check again tomorrow if I get a chance.

Almahadeus · Frequent Visitor Joined: Aug 06, 2005 Posts: 346

PLUSTAR · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 3

Well that makes sense, I thought it was something like that especially, since the SPECS camera(s) that I didn't get warned about, do come up when running a simulation of the journey I took over the weekend (something I didn't know I could do till I read this forum :D).

And now I know that section of the road is acctually a 70 not a 60 Rolling Eyes

, but then if you follow the whole area of the cameras it varies from 30 to 70 depending what section your acctually on, one of the things that I think has led to so many people not knowing for certain the correct speed, certainly most of the drivers I was following at the time appeared to also think it was 60.

crayg30 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 08, 2006 Posts: 18

Athletenige, what you can do is open up the speed camera files in excel and change all the @30,40 etc and replace them with @0 so you will get alerts for every speed camera in your database that you pass whatever speed your doing.

Works for me :D

athletenige · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 12, 2006 Posts: 7

crayg30,

That really does seem like a great idea, can you give me a bit more detail about changing the excel files please?

Thankyou!

MaFt · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:43 am Post subject:

slapheadvtr · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 26, 2006 Posts: 2

i read the above with interest.today is th efirst time i used my i3 for work.i perfomed 100%accurate.well pleased.however the speed camera warnings are a bit of a mixed bag.i also got a warning for a mobile camera...(16216)????does it detect them too? Confused

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